Sticky Learning Lunches #26: Give Your Presentations Oomph

Today's topic, Your Online Presentations Lack Oomph Part 2. 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 today's Sticky Learning Lunch. We're just waiting for the last few or the next few people. The last few people to arrive into today's session. Just gonna give them the opportunity to arrive as we get set up, feel a little bit more light on this situation. How are we all on a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being phenomenal? How are we feeling today so far? Chris, good to see you again, Colin to see you. Gina, hello again. Joanna.

Nathan Simmonds:

Thank you very much for being here. Tim, tens, nines, Howard, new face. How are you sir? Good to be with you as well. Thank you very much, Christopher. Appreciate it. Benjamin, good to see you. Kira, wonderful to see you again as well. Thank you very much for being here. Just while we're letting the last people in at one to 10, how are you feeling? One terrible, 10. Phenomenal. Where are you on today's scale? We can give it not even 30 seconds, and we're gonna dive into today's content and nine with an explanation.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Mark. Crikey, definite, 7.5. Let's see if we can lift that up a little bit with today. Right? Let's dive in. Drink as you see herbal tea. Make sure you've got a drink. You're set up. You can must stay hydrated through this conversation. Phones, as always, that's what I'm looking down at right now. Let's make sure you are on flight mode. Get yourselves, get the distraction zeroed out, and give yourself full attention to you, your personal development and where you are going with your skills, with your work and with your thinking.

Nathan Simmonds:

Fresh notepad, clean page at the top of the page keepers, that's what you wanna write is keepers at the top there. These are the things you want to remember, the things that you want to keep hold of the things that you want to read. And when you go back into it, it brings up the new thinking, it creates new ideas and invokes the imagination to keep that learning embedded, to make sure you are consistently building that behavioral change that's gonna help you be even better than you were yesterday.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's dive in. 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. And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. These sticky learning lunches are all about helping you be the best version of you right now in this current situation.

Nathan Simmonds:

Maybe you are working from home and helping you to return back to work as well. Colin, on the ball helping me to remember being, get on my full screen because that's the thing I always forget 'cause I just get carried away and, and, and power into this information. Today is part two of online power. It is about online presentations. It's about creating engagement and being more engaging when you are delivering conversations over zoom or via web conference.

Nathan Simmonds:

And today is all about the power. So yesterday we talked about online. Today we're talking about the power behind that, how engaging, thinking about the content that you, that you are delivering and the conversations that you are having with your people, how would you rate the level of engagement that you create? Again, one, not so great, 10 on point. Everyone's with me all of the time. All the actions are clear, everyone goes away and does what they need to do.

Nathan Simmonds:

Got a five and they're nice. I love the honesty. 5, 6, 6. What else? Any more numbers? Let's see who else. We've got one. Terrible, 10.