Presenting in the Virtual Environment

Mastering your virtual communication skills

Presenting in a virtual environment has unique challenges that presenters need to understand and work through. For example, virtual presenters don't have the luxury of being able to read the room at a glance to see if their audience is engaged. Further, since people are easily distracted, presenters need to employ a variety of techniques and skills to keep audience members focused. Using the technology is the easy part. Keeping people engaged is the real challenge.

This workshop addresses the many challenges virtual presenters face. Participants will build skills and gain useful insights and techniques to ensure audiences remain engaged.

All Turpin Workshops are highly customized to your organization's and employees' specific goals
and challenges and can be delivered on-site or virtually.

Experience Level

Low to High

Overview

Duration: 4 3.5-hour sessions
Maximum Enrollment: 8
Number of Instructors: 2
Location: Client’s virtual platform or Turpin’s Zoom

Degree of Coaching

High: Coaching occurs both in the classroom and in a private video review breakout room after every in-class exercise

Intended For

All business communicators who present virtually

Presenting in the Virtual Environment

Mastering your virtual communication skills

Throughout this series of virtual sessions and on-demand modules, participants apply the principles of The Orderly Conversation® to their own real-life content.

Participants will learn to

Engage listeners and create the conditions for a fruitful, results-oriented conversation
Communicate effectively face-to-face, virtually, and in hybrid situations
Frame their presentations so that they are listener-focused, persuasive, and answer the questions “What are we talking about?” and “Why?”
Create (or modify existing) effective visual aids to support key messages
Manage nervousness and gain self-awareness
Be clear and concise
Deliver visuals effectively and manage listener focus
Use virtual tools, including video, for maximum engagement
Think on their feet
Weave stories into their presentations when appropriate
Facilitate fruitful interactions with listeners
Nurture relationships and be the type of person others want to meet with
Get the business of the presentation done effectively and efficiently

Additional Post-Workshop Skill-Reinforcement Option

In addition to the skill-reinforcement resources included in eCoach, consider this option:

Manager Support Program: Managers play a critical role in helping employees apply what they learn in class to the situations they face outside of it. To help managers support the learning, and when appropriate to do so, we provide guidance for setting expectations prior to the workshop and for providing support after.

Communication Training Yields Business Results

We believe that business communication training must focus on business results: making work easier, employees more successful, workplaces more cooperative, and goals more attainable.

Getting Business Done and Growing Leadership Capability: Everything we do is designed to help people get business done and grow their capabilities. While a particular workshop may focus on a specific business goal—closing a deal, making a decision, learning something new, or gaining alignment—every workshop is designed to help the participants be more comfortable, effective, and confident communicators. When employees communicate more effectively, leadership capability increases and careers advance. This brings positive results to your team and company.