10 Steps to Successful Presentations, 2nd Edition

STEP 8

Excel at Virtual Presentations

Overview

• Create the atmosphere.

• Engage your virtual audience.

• Get the technical details right.

• Practice, deliver, and follow up.

Presentations have always been a staple of how we communicate. Leaders need to share information, so they gather people in a room and speak to their audience. Professors speak in front of a class or facilitate a discussion. Salespeople host a client for a product demonstration. Technology, however, has made it possible for meetings to take place regardless of geographic location. Presenters now can gather groups from all over the world in virtual “rooms” that far exceed the capacity of any office conference room or hotel ballroom. Our ever-increasing technical capabilities ...