One of the most common questions that we receive in our public speaking classes is, "Do the things that you are teaching us about in-person presentations change when you are on a webinar or an online platform?" The answer to that question is both "Yes" and "No".

The way that we teach people to design presentations is based on (1) focusing on the audience and what the audience wants and needs to know, and (2) make your content concise and entertaining. So, in those respects, yes, digital meeting creation is pretty much the same as an in-person presentation. However, there are seven important things that you need to know about online live meetings that make them dramatically different from other presentations. If you understand these key things, you can create powerful online presentations that leverage your time and your reach.

This is article and podcast is part one of a three-part series. Part two will be about how to customize your content for a digital delivery, and part three is about the technical aspects of conducting a live meeting. In part three, I'll show you the software that I use and why I use it.

7 Important Things that You Need to Know about Online Live Meetings (Like Zoom or Skype)

Online Meetings are a Fast and Easy Way to Deliver Bite-Sized Pieces of Content to an Audience.

"Bite-size training achieves quicker outcomes without blowing the budget." -- Dr. Sebastian Baily, Co-Founder of Mind Gym.

When I first started coaching and teaching classes to business people, my first instructor trainer was a guy named Jim Bartz in Dallas. Jim used to harp on me over and over about the value of what he called "time-spaced learning". What he had discovered was that if you want your course participants to learn quickly and to retain the information, you get a much better result if you teach them a concept, make the delivery interactive, then give the class members time to apply the content in the "real world". His concept was to conduct short, half-day sessions of content at a time on a weekly basis. The strategy worked phenomenally well. In fact, when I designed my first leadership class as the owner of The Leader's Institute ®, I used this technique. I created a series of six, half-day sessions spaced a week apart. By the end of the six-week class, the participants had experienced a dramatic behavior change. They had learned and applied so much of the content, that many claimed to have had a life-changing experience going through the course.

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