The skills are transferrable—whether I’m delivering a message in person or presenting over the phone, these skills are far reaching.

Principle Engineer | Johnson Controls, Inc.

Virtual Presentation Skills

Overview:

“Virtual Presentation Skills” is either a ½ or 1 day program designed to provide participants with specific skills, procedures and techniques to effectively present a teleconference or video conference.
This program provides opportunities for participants to be videotaped, as well as receive one-on-one coaching and feedback from an instructor and other program attendees.

The ½ day program applies to all participants who are graduates of “Professional Presentation Skills” or “Leadership Presentation & Image Skills.”  In the event participants are not graduates of either presentation skills program mentioned previously, “Virtual Presentation Skills” will become a 1-day program. This is necessary given the additional time required to instruct and apply the critical physical and delivery skills.

Learning Objectives & Sample Agenda:

Understand Your Technology

  • Verify your specific media capabilities based on conducting a teleconference or videoconference at your site or client’s site, to include:  operations, set-up and testing.

Apply the Virtual Presentation Roadmap

  • Analyze the situation and your audience, by answering several initial key questions, to ensure you focus on their needs and achieve their objectives and goals.
  • Create a presentation planning guide relying on key questions to clarify your thinking and plan your actions.
  • Prepare a meeting overview by determining your logistics, participants, and agenda items.
  • Draft a meeting agenda by creating an introduction, goals, topics, activities, appropriate transitions and closing.
  • Create appropriate visuals ensuring they are clear, complete and concise and relying on the Dardis checklist to ensure they meet acceptable guidelines.

Facilitate the Experience

  • Review a “pre-game” checklist to help guarantee success prior to “going live.”
  • Learn about various tools and processes available on various platforms and the most appropriate ones to use based upon your anticipated meeting outcome/s.
  • Learn tips to effectively deliver and manage the meeting and how to ensure engagement through creating critical statements and tips to stay focused.
  • Learn when and how to appropriately interact with the audience and the use of a moderator.
  • Learn how to stay connected to the audience and the meeting objectives to ensure understanding, buy-in and/or consensus.
  • Learn when and how to anticipate unexpected challenges and distractions and apply techniques to effectively overcome those hurdles.

Go Live With Your Presentation

  • Learn and apply vocal tips and verbal skills to polish your virtual presentation skills and appropriately channel nervousness or anxiety.
  • Play the role of “presenter,” as well as “audience member”
  • Q & A