In a virtual presentation, there’s a huge barrier in that you can’t see the audience. You’re operating with no data about their reaction to you.
This meeting, however, was virtual with seven people Isabella had never met. None of them had their camera on. She was looking at a wall of little black squares with names written on them. They looked more like gravestones than people.
How do you build rapport with that?
Standing ovations are the hallmark of highly skilled presenters. They occur in proportion to how precisely you reach your audience, whether you hit a true bull’s eye with your delivery and your message. They start long before your final sentence. There’s only one driving element that produces them. Simply put, the depth of your skill in both message and delivery determines the depth of your audience’s response.
That email came from Vikram, a senior leader who had sent his top team to our Art of Executive-Level Presentations workshop.
Before that, everyone was frustrated. The ELT was frustrated with long, unfocused presentations that buried the point. Vikram’s direct reports were frustrated because they couldn’t get anything approved.
They had an abundance of good ideas, intelligence, and spent hours preparing their presentations to the ELT. None of these were working because they weren’t playing by the rules.
Everything changed once they learned The 10 Rules of Executive-Level Presentations I’m making available in this PDF. (Free Download)
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