Online presentations bring people from all over the world to engage around a topic. Today, I’m discussing how to generate more engagement with your audience with Roger Courville. Roger is called the “Michael Jordan of online presentations and virtual classes” and named rising international star by the National Speakers Association. He also leads a company called Event Builders, where for the last 18 years, he has helped companies with webinars, webcasts, and virtual classes.

In today’s episode, Roger talks about the impact of webinars to our audiences. He also explains why online presentations are crucial for communication, development, and learning as well as how to conduct one properly.

Not only will we hear some of Roger’s best practices, but we can learn about his pet peeves, personal weaknesses, and favorite presentations to watch and learn from. 

In This Episode:

• Why makes webinars so bad?
• Generating engaging presentations as communication tools
• Creating effective attention getters to drawn in your audience
• How to design a motivational presentation for information cognition and retention
• Producing presentations with a genuine approach
• What webinars lack to engage audiences
• How to improve presentations to involve your audience
• Effect of introductions and biographies motivates audience to continue to listen
• Talking at people versus talking with people
• How to coach your boss when you know the more effective approach
• Watching top talks and seminars to understand best practices
• Understanding strengths and weaknesses of presenters giving webinars
• Things you need to stop doing right now before your next webinar
• How a virtual medium is different

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