WEBINAR - Top tips for online presenting

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  everyone. It's Russell from the presenter.

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  And this is just a quick reminder that on April

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  the ninth and 16th at 3 p.m. u k.

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  Time I'm gonna be delivering some live webinars where I

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  explain my top five tips for online presenting.

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  We've got over 150 seats gone already for both of

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  those sessions, but there's plenty of space.

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  I'm gonna put the links to those sessions above.

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  But what I thought might be useful is just to

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  give you one of my top tips right now.

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  So just recently, I was speaking Thio, a training consultant.

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  Hey, got in touch with me because, of course, his

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  entire business, which is normally in person training sessions, I

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  had to stop because off the crisis that we're all

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  going through.

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  So he had to immediately shift toe online training, which

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  was something he'd never done.

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  Now the very first thing that we focused in on

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  is the environment.

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  On when I talk about environment, I really mean the

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  space around you.

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  What did people see behind you on that webcam when

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  you're speaking to them or presenting to them online?

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  It's really, really important to think about that.

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  Before you worry about the technology that you're using, how

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  your slides look or anything else, it'll think about the

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  environment. So after speaking to this particular guy, we found

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  out, actually, that he was known in his industry for

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  being a real superhero nerd.

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  In fact, I told him to stand up, move his

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  laptop around so I could see the rest of his

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  home office.

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  And there were pictures of the whole.

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  There was some X Men characters, Captain America and things

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  like that, and he was trying to hide those from

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  view. But that's what he's known for already.

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  So I encouraged him to just tidy up those pictures,

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  put them on the wall behind him, and even put

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  some white board behind him as well.

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  So he had a really nice size white board that

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  he put next to those pictures.

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  So during the online training sessions, he could actually sketch

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  things onto that white board as well.

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  And that was something that he did a lot in

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  his in person training because of the type of session

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  that he was delivering.

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  So it's really, really important to think about your environment

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  and see this as a chance to actually bring through

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  your own character into your online presentation.

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  So superhero pictures work for that guy for me, you

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  probably notes in the background here I have, Ah, road

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  bike. This is my pride and joy, and I'm a

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  really king cyclist.

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  And there's quite a few of my kinds that I

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  work with that I know are also into cycling.

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  But the only way I know that is because they

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  saw the bike behind me and it sparked a conversation.

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  So if you have something like that, then I would

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  encourage you to bring it through into the background into

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  the environment.

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  It doesn't have to be there, right up close to

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  the camera, but things like that can always spark nice

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  conversation. Make sure your environment is nice entirely and tried

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  to use it.

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  I'm almost to bring through your own personal brand.

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  I would really encourage you to not worry so much

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  about the technology.

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  You're gonna use the weight your slides Look, First of

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  all, focus on your environment is really, really important.

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  Now more than ever, everyone we work with is gonna

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  be coming into our home.

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  So let's give them a taste of who we are

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  because people buy from people.

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  People like to work with people that they have things

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  in common with to this.

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  Bring that through.

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  So that's my number one tip.

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  I'm hoping that you can join me on the ninth

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  or the 16th of April 3 PM UK time.

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  Links will be above where I'll share the rest of

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  my online presenting tips.

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  I'll see you there.

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  Take care.