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. Phenomenal. How would you rate the level of engagement that you create with your people? A lot of fives. We've got some people we're all feeling right in the middle about this. Six. Good engagement, but it would be better if I had a camera. Absolutely. I don't talk too much about tech here, but making sure that it is, it's high definition.

Nathan Simmonds:

Seven 20, whatever, you know, over a thousand ideal. What's one thing that you could all do right now that would help you to improve that engagement? Whether it's from yesterday's content or something else you've seen me do or someone else do? What's one thing that you could do that would help you to improve that engagement with your teams and inside your conversations? Let's see that in the questions box as well. Let's see what good ideas we can share amongst ourselves to give that peer to peer coaching and development right now.

Nathan Simmonds:

Continually ask for feedback. Great one. Do it at the relevant points. Convey enthusiasm and passion. Absolutely. We're gonna talk a little bit about that today, Howard. Thank you. Check out eye level for camera if I have one. Yes, when you get one, just make sure it's there and you can, and you are looking into that person's eyes when they're looking at you. I read your supposed to amplify yourself by 20%, but not sure this, right? Are we talking about sound and projection?

Nathan Simmonds:

If that's the case, one of the key things is making sure that actually you are standing up, that you are opening your chest cavity up and you are able to put a little bit of air behind what, what you are doing and then start to kind of get a bit of oomph. Test, testing and experimentation is huge. Why? Because if I use the, the equipment I've got here and I don't understand how I sound here or how I sound over here when I'm using the same volume, how does that change and how do people engage with me?

Nathan Simmonds:

Jane, thank you very much appreciated. Jane says, love how you use questions to engage and keep engaged. This is, this is the whole point. It's got to be a two-way dialogue. Yes, there's gonna be moments in this 20 minutes when I'm gonna fire information at you. I also want you to know that you're holding that information and by me asking questions to you, it's helping me to make sure that you are on track.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's helping me to make sure that you are paying attention because I cannot see you in the nicest possible way. What I can see is if you are looking at different windows and browsers, so if you are currently looking at a different window or this, what, what you are see in the video of me, I can see if, if that isn't the, the the top most layer, which means then you're looking maybe your email or you're looking at another webpage whilst this is going on in the background.

Nathan Simmonds:

So I'm this, I can see. So I use these statistics afterwards to see how engaged you are with this and with me. And the engagement scores on average with the go-to webinar is about 52%. When I work with individuals and work in this space, it ranges from anywhere between 62 and 81% engagement, depending on the content I'm delivering and how I'm talking to people. Because, because of the questions I'm asking, how many screens do I do you have open, I only have two one window and then I have the rear display, which is PowerPoint.

Nathan Simmonds:

But I can see when other people have got, you know, they've minimized the windows and they've got selection of tabs open. If I'm not the top one, I can see whether you are engaging with me or whether you've got something else over the top of that or something that you, you deem a higher priority. So it's about that engagement. It's about watching, you know, and me gauging those reactions and, and feeling how people are going at and then asking the questions to bring dialogue back.

Nathan Simmonds:

This is vital for when you are doing this with people in, in your team meetings. In your presentations. Ask questions. One, because it creates a certain amount of authority. If you get stopped by the police who's asking the questions, tell me in the question box, if you get stopped by the police, who's asking the questions, James laughing.

Nathan Simmonds:

It instantly creates a certain amount of authority. I'm interested in you and your response is, ah, he's interested in me. Therefore, you know, okay, this, this person. There's a level of trust or engagement or, you know, or rapport being built here. What's going on here? Let's, let's answer these questions and see where this conversation goes. This is super important. We understand this as well, but look, let's dive into this today.

Nathan Simmonds:

Today is all about power. We've got about 12 minutes to power through this policeman usually asking sarcastic questions. Yes, they tend to do that because they feel they can get away with it. We're not starting with the P today. I'll come back to that in just a minute. We're gonna do that at the end. The first one is what is over your shoulder? You, when you are delivering content, it is vital. You understand what is behind you. Give your prime example.

Nathan Simmonds:

So if you look at the interview series that we've done on the Making Business Matter YouTube channel, we recently started doing some interviews and podcast style conversations. Initially you'll see the first one and this comes into the W of me and what the background is in my home office. What you can see though, along with how I've changed the background here, what I've done is I've changed the wall, the whiteboard is on.

Nathan Simmonds:

I've also changed where the desk is. So you can see you get a different view of what's behind me. So rather than me being at a peculiar angle because of the lighting that was you covered yesterday, I've now shifted it. So the lighting is fairly neutral, fairly, but the background is much more much more professional, much cleaner,