Category Archives: Presentations

Helping Your Remote Virtual Attendees Succeed As Participants

Tweet Our time is valuable. Many of us see our time as money, a resource that we don’t want to waste. Asking people to commit 30-, 45- or even 60-minutes of their time to attend your Webinar is asking a lot. It’s critical that your digital event provide tremendous value and ROI or you’ll lose…

Preventing Death By Lecture Through Audience Discussion

Tweet Many people believe that PowerPoint (PPT) presentations are a leading killer of learning. We even call it “Death by PPT.” Actually, the typical 45-, 60- or 90-minute speech has a higher mortality rate than PPT. And that speech may actually be a fugitive living under an assumed name like keynote, lecture, breakout, plenary, concurrent…

Drag Is A Four Letter Word To Avoid In Digital Presentations

Tweet Your digital presentation must keep moving or it will be abandoned! As a digital presenter, you can’t afford to get bogged down for any reason. If you do, you will lose attendees. Faster, Upbeat Pace The pace of your Webinar, teleseminar or virtual presentation must be faster than your traditional face-to-face presentation. No, that…

We Need Facilitators Of Learning Not Speakers Of Stats

Tweet Presenting in my opinion is vastly over-rated. I am not interested in instructing another person to know what he or she should think. I cannot control another person’s mind. As much as I wish I could, I cannot make others know specific information or skills through a speech. They have to learn the information…

Preparing To Present? Eight Learning Principles To Master

Tweet Most of us think we know how to present. Actually, we know how to talk! And talk, talk, talk, is what we do. Yet, few of us really know how to learn. Changing Attitudes And Behaviors Or Killing Time If your goal is for your audience to hear what you have to say, keep…