{"id":2558,"date":"2020-06-23T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/?post_type=chapter&p=2558"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:41:21","slug":"online-presentations-tips-for-giving-a-virtual-presentation","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/chapter\/online-presentations-tips-for-giving-a-virtual-presentation\/","title":{"raw":"Virtual Presentations: 10 Tips For Giving Effective Virtual Presentations","rendered":"Virtual Presentations: 10 Tips For Giving Effective Virtual Presentations"},"content":{"raw":"
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What to Know Before You Go Live<\/span><\/h2>\r\nby<\/span>\u00a0Matt Abrahams,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Stanford School of Business\r\n\r\nAs audiences go global and you need to reach more people through technology (including webinars, conference calls and teleconference), you must consider the challenges to connecting with a virtual audience. Here I pinpoint 10 valuable best practices to ensure you communicate successfully.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

1. Be Brief<\/h2>\r\n

Audiences begin to lose attention after roughly 10 minutes of hearing from the same presenter. If you have more than 10 minutes of content, use interactive activities to keep your audience engaged (for example, take a poll, give quizzes, or ask audience members for their opinions via chat).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

2. Be Simple<\/h2>\r\n

Keep slides simple \u2014 avoid too many words, graphics and animation features. Less is definitely more!<\/p>\r\n\r\n

3. Be a TV Personality<\/h2>\r\n

Look straight into your camera, not the screen. Wear clothing that is neutral in color (no plaids or stripes).<\/p>\r\n

Light yourself well and from above<\/strong>. Be mindful of what appears behind you in the background. Invest in a good microphone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

4. Be Standing<\/h2>\r\n

Even though your audience cannot see you, stand when you present. This allows you to stay focused and use good presentation delivery skills such as belly breathing, vocal variety, and pausing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

5. Be Prepared<\/h2>\r\n

Practice delivering your presentation with your technology in advance of your talk. Make sure all of the features of the technology work. Record your practice using the recording feature of your tool. Watch and listen to learn what works and what you can improve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

6. Be Assisted<\/h2>\r\n

Have someone available to deal with technical issues and to field email\/text questions. Also, if you have multiple remote audience members in one location, be sure to pick one of them to be your \u201ceyes and ears.\u201d Ask them to queue up questions and facilitate discussion on your behalf.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

7. Be Specific<\/h2>\r\n

Ask pointed questions to avoid too many people answering at once. For example, rather than ask, \u201cAre there any questions?\u201d try \u201cWho has a question about the solution I provided?\u201d Set a ground rule that people state their names prior to speaking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

8. Be Synchronized<\/h2>\r\n

Transitions are critical. You must connect what you just said to what is coming next when you move from point to point. Transitions between topics and slides are good opportunities to get people reengaged to your talk.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

9. Be Connected<\/h2>\r\n

Imagine your audience even though you can\u2019t see them. You can place pictures of audience members behind your camera so you can look at people as you present.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

10. Be Early<\/h2>\r\n

Encourage your audience to access your call or webinar in advance of the start time so you can iron out any technical issues in advance and get them familiar with the technology<\/p>\r\n

Matt Abrahams\u00a0is a Stanford GSB organizational behavior lecturer, author, and communications coach.<\/em><\/p>","rendered":"

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\"Decorative<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

What to Know Before You Go Live<\/span><\/h2>\n

by<\/span>\u00a0Matt Abrahams,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Stanford School of Business<\/p>\n

As audiences go global and you need to reach more people through technology (including webinars, conference calls and teleconference), you must consider the challenges to connecting with a virtual audience. Here I pinpoint 10 valuable best practices to ensure you communicate successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1. Be Brief<\/h2>\n

Audiences begin to lose attention after roughly 10 minutes of hearing from the same presenter. If you have more than 10 minutes of content, use interactive activities to keep your audience engaged (for example, take a poll, give quizzes, or ask audience members for their opinions via chat).<\/p>\n

2. Be Simple<\/h2>\n

Keep slides simple \u2014 avoid too many words, graphics and animation features. Less is definitely more!<\/p>\n

3. Be a TV Personality<\/h2>\n

Look straight into your camera, not the screen. Wear clothing that is neutral in color (no plaids or stripes).<\/p>\n

Light yourself well and from above<\/strong>. Be mindful of what appears behind you in the background. Invest in a good microphone.<\/p>\n

4. Be Standing<\/h2>\n

Even though your audience cannot see you, stand when you present. This allows you to stay focused and use good presentation delivery skills such as belly breathing, vocal variety, and pausing.<\/p>\n

5. Be Prepared<\/h2>\n

Practice delivering your presentation with your technology in advance of your talk. Make sure all of the features of the technology work. Record your practice using the recording feature of your tool. Watch and listen to learn what works and what you can improve.<\/p>\n

6. Be Assisted<\/h2>\n

Have someone available to deal with technical issues and to field email\/text questions. Also, if you have multiple remote audience members in one location, be sure to pick one of them to be your \u201ceyes and ears.\u201d Ask them to queue up questions and facilitate discussion on your behalf.<\/p>\n

7. Be Specific<\/h2>\n

Ask pointed questions to avoid too many people answering at once. For example, rather than ask, \u201cAre there any questions?\u201d try \u201cWho has a question about the solution I provided?\u201d Set a ground rule that people state their names prior to speaking.<\/p>\n

8. Be Synchronized<\/h2>\n

Transitions are critical. You must connect what you just said to what is coming next when you move from point to point. Transitions between topics and slides are good opportunities to get people reengaged to your talk.<\/p>\n

9. Be Connected<\/h2>\n

Imagine your audience even though you can\u2019t see them. You can place pictures of audience members behind your camera so you can look at people as you present.<\/p>\n

10. Be Early<\/h2>\n

Encourage your audience to access your call or webinar in advance of the start time so you can iron out any technical issues in advance and get them familiar with the technology<\/p>\n

Matt Abrahams\u00a0is a Stanford GSB organizational behavior lecturer, author, and communications coach.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274624,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2558","chapter","type-chapter","status-web-only","hentry"],"part":2213,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274624"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2558\/revisions\/2583"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2213"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2558\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-newpaltz-engcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}