Use these Tips to Connect with your Virtual Audience
Whether we like it or not, virtual presentations are part of our professional lives nowadays and making the most out of them can help us
Whether we like it or not, virtual presentations are part of our professional lives nowadays and making the most out of them can help us
By asking yourself just two simple questions, you can make your presentation preparation easier, keep your audience engaged and prevent yourself from digressing whilst you’re speaking.
‘Talk like TED’ by Carmine Gallo is one of my favourite books and it contains 9 public speaking ‘secrets’. In this post you’ll discover exactly what those secrets are.
We’ve been hearing for a long time how stories really help people to remember the messages of your presentation. Watch this TEDtalk video and you’ll be convinced!
To ensure that your presentation content engages, think about your facts from the perspective of the 3Is – Information, Insights and Inspiration.
When giving a technical presentation we can be tempted to think it’s all about facts and giving dry information. But our audience expects more from us than just facts.
To ensure that your presentation content engages, think about your facts from the perspective of the 3Is – Information, Insights and Inspiration.
To engage your audience you have to do more than deliver facts. Use the 3 ‘I’s – Information to talk about the facts, insights for the audience to connect the facts to their situtation and inspiration feel something about the facts.
Using story telling techniques in your presentations is one of the most effective ways to persuade your audience to take action, adopt your ideas or spread your message.
And both you and your message will be remembered for much, much longer than those who continue to give boring presentations full of dry facts and statistics.
If you want your presentation audience to go away changed in some way after listening to your presentation, you need to ensure your communication is impactful and completely relevant to them.
So the magic formula is: Impact + Relevance = memorability
If you want your presentation to be remembered, make sure you finish with a strong conclusion that leaves the audience on an emotional high. In this post I give an example of exactly how to do that.
If you try to lead the audience around to your point of view too soon, they will resist because of the reasons above.
When we pace an audience, we let them know we acknowledge what they might be feeling before we attempt to lead them around to our point of view.
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