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Deliver Engaging Presentations

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Best practices for engaging presentations

Get Present

• Rehearse
• Minimize distractions
• Breathe
• Check your tech

Reach Out to the Audience

• Open with connection
• Check in frequently
• Call on people by name
• Use sharing tools

Make it Expressive

• Use your Signals of Presence
• Use Passionate Purpose
• Use metaphors

Be Self-Knowing

• Accept the inner critic
• Make it your own
• Use stories (if appropriate)

Singals of Presence <

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Passionate Purpose <

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Scale Your Use of Tools as Your Virtual Meeting Scales in Size

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Responding to Q&A Best Practices

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Notes

• Preparation
  • Who is my audience?
  • What questions could the audience have?
  • clear story-line
  • Prepare introduction
  • Rehearse
• Upfront:
  • Strech & Relax
  • Breathe
  • Have water at hand
• Setting the Stage
  • Cameras On (if ok - let me know if not! We need your feedback)
  • “raise-hands” questions for encouragement & connection
• bring people in
  • address single persons
    • what do you think, XY?
  • make it personal, create connection
    • XY: How are you? “Personal” topic …
    • share something
      • show vulnerability
        • how about you?
• have friendly participants at hand to foster interaction
• be present & flexible
• use passion & vioce modulation
• use pauses!
• make purpose & intentioans clear (?)
• be visual (slides & explanation)
• parking spot for questions
• be as authentic as possbile

Challenges

• too fast “get it ovder” (esp. when nervous / not well prepared)
• Slide Layouting & Styling
• improvised monologues
• passionate purpose
• pauses <

Tips

• Take time & create space to be best version of yourself
  • -> create / take enough time to reply
    • thought-through reponse
  • breathe and ground
  • ackknowledge
    • great question!
  • clarify
    • explain me more! -> conversation
  • empathize
    • I feel you
      • I can feel you are really angry, must be frustrating to …
        • what can we do to make you feel better?
  • open discussion / delegate
    • become moderator
  • write down issues
    • did I get you right?
  • It’s OK not to know everything!
  • read books for hostage negotiation
    • “never split the difference” Christopher Voss