Executive Summary of The Exceptional Presenter Goes Virtual: Lead Dynamic Online Meetings

By Tim Koegel

The business world has changed suddenly and dramatically.

Challenge yourself and your team to establish higher standards for how you communicate with clients, prospects, recruits, fellow workers, or your students. This book will help you achieve your virtual meeting objectives and exceed participant expectations. The stakes are higher and opportunities are fewer. Make every meeting count.

Leading virtual meetings commands an extra level of detail and planning, a more assertive delivery style, and a relentless effort to keep your participants engaged. This summary provides a systematic method for planning and executing these events. It’s based on Tim Koegel’s book, The Exceptional Presenter Goes Virtual, named a Top 5 Business Book by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Tim’s easy to use advice will teach you to—

• Keep it relevant, keep it engaging, and keep it moving.

• Plan and sequence the timing and flow of your meetings.

• Organize your team and topics.

• Keep participants engaged and participating.

• Create an in-person atmosphere for your virtual meetings.

• Develop a dynamic and professional on-screen presence.

• Practice to ensure that you accomplish your meeting objectives.

• Overcome the challenges of meeting virtually.

Tim Koegel is a New York Times best-selling author, founder of The Presentation Academy, keynote speaker, workshop leader, and personal coach.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
• Release date: Jun 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9780998011295

Book preview

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Chapter 1

Opportunity Awaits

This book is about leading productive virtual meetings, how to organize your material, organize your team, and deliver your message. It is not about how to use the software. The software can’t conduct the meeting for you.

The meteoric rise in the frequency of online communication has created an opportunity for those who take the right steps to improve their virtual communication proficiency. If you already possess strong in-person communication skills, this book will help you transfer those skills to virtual meetings. If your in-person communication skills are less than exceptional, this book offers you a second chance to elevate your game.

What follows will teach you not only how to organize your team and material but also how to deliver your information to achieve the greatest impact.

Keep It Relevant.

Keep It Engaging.

Keep It Moving.

Understand the Challenges, or They Will Trip You Up

The challenges of virtual meetings far exceed those of face-to-face meetings. Multitasking, distracted or muted audiences, delayed voice transmission, bandwidth and connectivity issues, and poor camera and microphone placement can combine to seriously limit the impact of your meetings and frustrate the participants. A multitasking or distracted audience alone is enough to dilute your impact. Virtual meetings command an extra level of detail and planning, a more assertive delivery style, and a relentless effort to keep your audience engaged. It’s essential that you employ a systematic process for planning and executing your virtual meetings.

Don’t Fall Short of Your Potential

When it comes to leading meetings, most presenters fall short of their potential. They haven’t received training on how to craft a message, how to deliver that message, or how to keep an audience engaged. Consider this book your personal coach to help you reach your potential as a meeting leader.

As the meeting leader, hold yourself accountable.

If the meeting is a success, you’ve done your job. If the meeting fails, take the blame. If the participants don’t remember your message, don’t blame them. It’s your responsibility to craft a message that is easy to comprehend. If the participants don’t participate, don’t blame them. You haven’t created opportunities for them to get involved. If the meeting doesn’t start and end on time, that’s on you.

You are the leader. The buck stops with you. If you prepare with that mindset, you will consistently lead productive and dynamic meetings.

Chapter 2

Virtual Communication Is Not New

Radio and television have been delivering information to remote audiences for about a century.

Learn by Watching the Professionals

The broadcasting industry provides us with a never-ending source of ideas for improving our online communication. In most situations, radio and television (TV) are broadcasting to invisible and silent audiences. They receive no feedback, other than an occasional email comment, text message, or phone call. They also operate within tight time constraints, and have an enormous amount of competition vying for the attention of their audiences. If we pay close attention to what they do and how they do it, we can incorporate some of their techniques to make our meetings more relevant, more engaging, and more efficient.

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