Sticky Learning Lunches #25: Give Your Presentations Oomph

Today's topic, Online Presentations Lack Oomph part 1. Use the 'ONLINE POWER' mnemonic to be a more powerful you online and a great online presenter.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Monday. Welcome to this week's start of sticky learning lunches. We're just waiting for the last couple of people to get into the room. We've got a few more seconds until we start for today. I've just seen a typo on my front screen. So if you can spot the typo. There are no prizes for this, just for entertainment. If you can spot the typo, put it in the questions box. Let me know that you've seen it, 'cause I've just seen it at the 11th hour. Welcome.

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome everyone. Make sure we're, as we're doing this, we're just waiting for those last people to arrive. Setting everyone up for success as normal. Should there be audio sound with this as well? Have we started? Yes, there should be sound. Can everyone hear me? 'cause Luke can't right now. Can everyone hear me? Yes. I've got, yeah, Luke, this may just be you. You may have to do a restart. Let's get that in there.

Nathan Simmonds:

So making sure we're setting everyone up for success today. So, phones out. Let's make sure we're seeing the phones live. He says, let's get this on flight mode. Zero distraction, a hundred percent attention on yourselves and your development right now. Let's get into this drinks at the ready, making sure everyone has a drink available. You're gonna stay hydrated. And then making sure you've got a blank page ready to get your keepers down. So you're gonna write keepers at the top of the page.

Give your presentations back their oomph

 

Nathan Simmonds:

And keepers are the things that you want to keep hold of the bits of information that you wanna be reminded of when you go back and reread those notes and come up with new ideas as you start to embed that. Good. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter. The home of sticky learning idea of these lunchtime micro learning sessions is to help you be the best version of you right now in this situation.

Nathan Simmonds:

Whether you are working from home or whether you are returning back to the office and also preparing you for the return back to the office as well. Today is all about online power. It's about the power of presentation, it is about the the power of presence when you are delivering online content and you are speaking whether you are presenting or whether you are engaging with your team. We've been doing it for a few weeks now,

Nathan Simmonds:

But that doesn't necessarily mean that we've been doing it to its best or to our best yet. And we may have got either complacent or picked up bad habits along the way. And this session is gonna be about helping to put some new skills in because this is the reality. This is the new state of play. This is part of the toolbox we're gonna be using more often than not to support people's mental health fulfillment and job satisfaction.

Nathan Simmonds:

And that's what this week's these next two sessions today and tomorrow are gonna be about. First of all, last week we did four sessions around the mind coaching model. It's a model that I designed in the MBM lab to help leaders have better, stronger, and more robust mental health conversations. Fully aware, this is Mental Health Awareness Week I believe.

Nathan Simmonds:

Correct me if I'm wrong, last week's tools. Were all about having the right conversations this week and in fact, every week, okay, if you haven't seen last week's training around supporting mental health conversations as a leader or a HR professional, we're gonna share the link to last week's sessions in the chat box so you can go back and watch those later on. Again, to support you and your leaders having the right c...