Turning PRO with your virtual presentations

Virtual YouProduced by: Jennifer Thibeaux

a Thibeaux & Thibeaux Productions LLC property

• Starting when you should be

Stopping

• 10pm news doesn’t start at

10:05pm

• Professionals train for the big

show

• The best presentations are not

finished 3 seconds before you’re

live

• Being ready for anything

– Remember the SuperBowl Power Outage?

3-2-1 You’re Live!

• What They Want

• What You Want

• Outcomes

Chicken or Egg?

• What’s their alert time of day?

• What’s their primary language?

• What’s their daily role?

• Learners vs. Skeptics

– They want to know what you know

– They want to know how you know

• What’s the Tech Savvy?

• What will they do with the info

after?

Assess Your Audience

• Audio Makes or Breaks the

Experience

– Speed

– Volume

– Clarity

• How will you broadcast your

voice

– Telephone

– VoIP

• Remember all Ability Types

• Reducing background noise

where you are

Your Voice – Your Choice

• Listening is a Key Component

• Do you have an audio

mechanism to hear your

audience?

• Have you established audio

feedback parameters?

• Discerning the Real Question

Can You Hear Me Now?

• Make it a good picture

• Your Presentation

– Plain loses interest

– Crowded confuses people

– Colors are important

• Remember all ability types

• Rule of Thumb

– 1 hr preso = 20 slides (reasonable)

– Flashing through slides = info

overload

Visual – What They See

• How will you see your

audience?

• Recognizing when you need

help seeing

• Positioning your preso to see

people

• Setting rules with your audience

– i.e. this is how you get my attention

Visual – What You See

• They will turn you off

• They will minimize the screen

• They will mute the audio

• They will place you on HOLD

• They will not pay attention

If It’s Not TV

• Visually appealing

• Engaging sound with sound

effects

• Voice inflection

• Episodic

• Plot

• Suspense

• Outcome (sometimes with a

twist)

What’s So Special About TV?

• Beautiful presentation

– Leverage templates

– Words that “jump” confuse people

• Use real people – no cartoons

• Vary voice and use inflection

• Tell a story and connect it

throughout

• Take and Bake

– Take them on a journey and bake

in the concepts

• Big Reveal at the end

(summaries are boring)

Being Better Than TV

• Train first

– Improve your

• Audio

• Visual

• Interaction

• Technology

• Practice 2nd

– Dry Run with the Technology

– In front of a small audience

– Listen to feedback

– Make adjustments

• Present 3rd

– Show Time!

Bringing It Together

• Learn the technology

• Have tech support available

– Not general tech support

– Someone who is an expert on the

broadcast technology

• Have a Plan B and C

• Be ready for audience tech

issues

Technology Assist

• Engaging presentation

• Great dialogue

• Audience has learned and is

interested in applying

knowledge

• Create feedback process

• Be ready to fulfill commitments

made during the session

End Result