I recently watched a speaker who used 11 ‘umms’ and ‘ahhs’ in the first 26 seconds of their presentation. That’s nearly a filler word every 2 seconds! I became fixated on them. I started counting.
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Like learning to play guitar, golf, or knit, improving your presentation skills takes practice.
We get asked all the time, how much should I practice? Good question.
In order to become a more effective communicator, we recommend the following:
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Ultimately, if your audience doesn’t remember what you said, it’s the same as if they never attended your presentation in the first place.
Given the fragility of human memory, you need to design your presentations to pass the “Water Cooler Test.”
Our attention span is less than a goldfish (8 seconds, by the way)…
With our ability to pay attention going in the wrong direction, you must partition your content into bite-sized portions if you want people to retain the information you’re presenting.
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We sit, we click on one video call after another, after another, after another.
What used to be in-person meetings in a conference room are now video calls.
While a lot has changed in the last 6 months, one thing has not -- the need to listen.
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Communication was one area of business operations that was forced to rapidly evolve in response to the economic chaos and uncertainty of the pandemic. Specifically, the best leaders began to communicate:
More frequently,
With greater transparency,
Proactively as opposed to reactively,
From a position of deeper understanding and empathy,
And in a style that blended both data and humanity.
Many people may be lulled into thinking a video conference is the same as an in-person meeting, but there is an essential ingredient that is missing: THE BODY!
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While some of the factors contributing to Zoom Fatigue are beyond the control of a remote presenter, effective presenters should do everything possible to minimize audience Zoom Fatigue.
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