When I ask my webinar attendees what they find boring or frustrating about Webinars, I often hear about boring slides, a lack of interaction, and about presenters who read text straight from the slides. We’ve all been there… mind numbing, isn’t it? Here are a few tips to help you create great webinar slides:
When conducting webinars, it is crucial that you pause while speaking. This allows your attendees time to digest what you’ve said. Here is how you can implement pausing into your delivery style to create great webinars:
When conducting virtual meetings, your voice serves as your main connection with the attendees. It is important that you sound confident and decisive to maintain their attention. To do this, consider implementing the following techniques:
1.Push your energy and enthusiasm
2.Pause and breathe
3.Articulate, enunciate and use good diction
4.Use inflection
5.Vary your voice: speed up and slow down
6.Use a natural, conversational voice
To make sure that you are sounding confident, conduct a mock meeting and record yourself. As painful as it can be, hearing yourself is the best way to make the improvements to conduct dynamic virtual meetings.
Sheri Jeavons is a highly regarded communications consultant, dynamic speaker and entrepreneur. Realizing that effective communication is the key to success, Sheri founded Power Presentations, Inc. in 1993.