Class Description
Presentation Success in a Virtual Workplace
This Presentation Success in a Virtual Workplace course is designed to provide students with enhanced ability to design, build and present high quality and effective virtual presentations. This includes topics such as technology considerations, video-based delivery, presentation material best practices, how to engage a virtual audience and more.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the Presentation Success in a Virtual Workplace course, students will be able to:
- Prepare and present high quality and effective virtual business presentations
- Employ virtual presentation best practices
- Define and enhance presentation style and delivery
- Use best practices in virtual PowerPoint design, structure and format
Duration:
- Two hour
Class Topics include:
- Technology advantages and limitations
- Features at your fingertips
- Your camera sees all
- Use of breakout sessions
- Virtual notepads
- Things going against you
- On-video versus in-person differences
- Audience participation
- Brainstorming
- Decision making
- Gaining buy-in
- Exercise types
- Delivery best practices
- Use and advantage of a virtual engineer
- Use of being on video (you on camera)
- Slides cadence and usage
- On-slide automation
- Screen share versus uploaded content
- Lighting, audio and video considerations
- Standing, sitting and moving on camera
- Use of YouTube and other video clips
- Participant interaction: chat versus audio
- Giving Virtual Presentations
- If new to virtual presentations
- Maximize your personal energy
- Presentation Preparation
- Who is in the audience
- What your audience wants
- Your goals from the presentation
- What you want them to do
- Situational understanding
- Personal strengths and weaknesses
- Designing PowerPoint Presentations for Virtual Use
- Fonts
- Graphics
- Text
- Automation
- Environmental considerations
- Picking a template