Live Online Seminar: Professional online presentations: Presenting online in video conferences – with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, WebEx, Skype

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Live Online Seminar: Professional online presentations: Presenting online in video conferences – with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, WebEx, Skype

Professionally plan, prepare and perform goal-oriented online presentations – optimise personal impact.

Online presentations have their own dynamics and place special demands on presenters and facilitators: Voice and visual information are your only means of control – and at the same time, the participants can take themselves out of the presentation at any time without being noticed. You therefore have to make consistent and stringent use of all available technical and personal means in order to focus the participants‘ concentration on the presentation.

Due to the massive increase in home office work, many employees are now faced with the challenge of having to use the new medium professionally. The participants of this seminar learn, practice and consolidate all the skills necessary to perform online presentations – from two-person discussions to large groups, as meetings or sales presentations.

Seminar objectives: Participants learn how to optimally prepare and facilitate presentations, sales presentations, online meetings, video conferences and other online events, visualise content and deal confidently with the special technical and group dynamic challenges. They specifically optimise their impact in front of the microphone and camera.

Target group: Any person in the company who conducts or wants to conduct professional and focussed online meetings, video conferences, web seminars and other online events

Preparation

• Before the training, participants fill out a password-protected expectations questionnaire I put together the exact seminar content and plan based on the outcomes of the questionnaire.
• Before the training, participants receive preparatory material with core tips for effective presentations. This is used to attune the participants to the seminar.

Seminar contents

Setting, technology and implementation options for online presentations

• Tips and tricks for presenters in online events: How do virtual meetings and sales presentations differ from traditional presentations?
• How do you generate and maintain the participants‘ attention? How can you make targeted use of the technology available to you?
• Technical options and recommended settings for your online meeting software
• Layout of the presentation space: lighting, position, control monitor

 Optimising presentations for video conferences

• Tips for the optimised preparation of the online presentation: pyramidal structure, action title, animated objects, gaze guidance
• Use of animation to control attention

Optional: facilitation technology

• Special characteristics of online facilitation
• Optional tools for facilitation such as Mural, Miro, Sli.do

Personal impact in video conference presentations

• Optimise individual charisma, appearance and impact
• Voice pitch, gestures, facial expressions, posture and body language – authentic and effective
• Appearance: How do you present yourself in front of the camera? How do you speak to an “empty room” when the participants are not broadcasting video, or even audio?
• Rhetorical tips
• Recognise and avoid presentation errors – emphasise strengths

Practice: camera training for online video presentations

• Consolidation through practical exercises with video recording and detailed individual feedback
• The participants receive their own video file with feedback as well as a feedback sheet created by the trainer for download.

Methods

• Teaching discussion, development through questions
• Presentation and discussion of your own results
• Active work with learning materials (quick reference cards)
• Small group work
• Practical exercises in the form of role play with individual feedback
• Work on the participants‘ own presentations
• Practical setup of the settings for video presentations

Handbook, reference cards and service around the seminar

• Seminar manual and seminar documents with exercises,
• Quick reference cards in A5 format for a quick overview,
• Additional material and PDF photo protocol by email,
• After the seminar, each participant receives a personal video file with the results of their own practical exercise, including an individual evaluation.
• Support after the seminar: Simply by e-mail or via the knowledge blog – participants can continue to ask questions and ask for tips after the seminar..