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Presentation Training is provided across the United States and Canada. Participants have three options to attend and participate in our presentation training. Presentations are delivered via public open enrollment courses in all major metropolitan areas and are also available to be delivered on-site via private courses. The 3rd option is to attend Online Webinar Presentations Skills Workshops. Our face to face Presentation Training can be provided as off-the-shelf sessions, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored and personalized presentation training approach based on client needs. All presentations courses are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase presentation course effectiveness and provide the individual level of face to face or online coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Training Skills Center.

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Presentation Training Best Practices For Web Conferences

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Have you ever been in a web meeting and found that the "weakest link" was the presenter? If you use web conferencing technology, don't be the weakest link in your web meeting. A bad online presentation can cost you and your business - whether in lost sales, lost productivity, or lost reputation and self-esteem.

1. Establish Clear Objectives

When you establish a clear objective for your presentation training, your audience is able to focus its energy and attention. Once set, the activities you undertake in your web meeting presentation training should all support the achievement of your chosen goals.

When you set a presentation training objective, you send an image to the subconscious mind of your attendees. It remains there until the objective becomes reality. This is how all creative people work - they transform the images they seed in their subconscious minds into a concrete form.

Henceforth, only items in support of your presentation training objectives are brought up in the meeting. Examples of objectives that can be established are: "Discovery session of how our widget can solve the problem of...", or "Exploration of the various uses of the widget", etc.

2. Prepare

Today's modern web conferencing systems allow the presenter to easily invite and accept attendees for the presentation training. But that's just the beginning. Make sure you are familiar with the functions that you'll need to have a great web meeting.

The eight basic functions you'll need are: desktop sharing, participant list/control, drawing tools, remote keyboard and mouse control, text chat, session recording, VoIP (for sending sound from your PC to the attendees), and polling/surveys. (These are the absolute minimum requirements - if you don't have these functions you'll need to find another conferencing package vendor). Read on to discover how you'll use these tools in your presentation training.

3. Provide Visuals (a.k.a. "channeling your inner Steve Jobs")

Does this sound familiar? You're interested in a new widget and get invited to a web demo by the Widget Company. The presenter at WidgetCo opens up his stock PowerPoint presentation training, goes through it slide by boring slide, then asks you for your P.O. or credit card number.

P-L-E-A-S-E. Take advantage of this powerful technology. Make your presentation training incredibly compelling. There's nothing wrong with using PowerPoint - but don't kill them with it. Use a handful of visually appealing PowerPoint slides to establish and interactively highlight the key points of your presentation training. Then, bring out the widget. Pass the controls to the audience so they can "touch", "smell", and "taste" the widget. Start the fog machine. Mix in some audio and video. Go to your web site to show them where to learn more. Are you getting the idea?

4. Interact with your audience

Solicit questions from your presentation training attendees. Check in often to gauge the interest level. Unlike a physical meeting you can't read the body language of your participants. Pay attention to little things, like the breathing (or snoring) on the other end. Remember your established presentation training objective and stay focused. Fail to do so at your peril - you may have lost the sale before you even realize it.

5. Follow up

Offer attendees a meeting summary consisting of the presentation training slides, documents, session recording for later review, and chat logs. Afterward - conduct polls, evaluations, and even quizzes. Finally - send thank-you notes, solicit additional questions and establish the next steps.

In summary, your next online web meeting can be a success, as long as it's carefully planned, properly executed, compelling, and focused. Stay in contact with your participants even after your presentation training session has ended, and your web meeting will have proven to be a success.

You'll have no more worries about hosting bad web meetings.

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