Engaging your audience

Engaging your audience Online Presentations

May 27, 2020

3 challenges of virtual presentations (and how to overcome them)

Leaders are realising there are considerable upsides to virtual presenting: Saving time and money Wider reach Audience and presenter typically more relaxed Easy and straightforward to record and share presentations Reduces the amount of carbon in the environment. But, it's very possible to be quite dull when presenting online. You,…

Online Presentations Engaging your audience

jeremy cassell virtual presentation coaching

May 6, 2020

Engaging a virtual audience in 2020

Practical tools to nail your 2020 online presentations Thanks to Covid-19, video conferencing has gone viral. Now we are all jumping on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx and other online platforms and many of us are, in addition, delivering online presentations. When so much of your success in business hangs on…

March 12, 2020

Engage the audience as much as possible

10 simple things you can do to engage the audience How often have you been distracted or disengaged when in the audience at a presentation? We love to poll our audiences at Jeremy Cassell Coaching. Recent evidence suggested 48% of the respondents admitted to doing something other than listening during…

structuring your presentation start and finish

February 12, 2020

Deliver a compelling start and finish

It’s my birthday and I was married 3 weeks ago. There we are – that’s a start! Most coachees or participants on my training programmes say a version of this to me often: "...as long as I can get through the first 2 minutes of a presentation, then I tend…

January 22, 2020

Articulate a burning platform

Articulate a burning platform - NOW! Over 30 years ago now, a terrible tragedy hit the UK North Sea oil industry - The Piper Alpha disaster. You may have heard of it or remember what happened. At nine-thirty on a July evening in 1988, a disastrous explosion and fire occurred…

Engaging your audience Mindset and Confidence

November 21, 2019

Present with authenticity

What does ‘Present with authenticity’ really mean? In an increasingly sceptical world, authenticity is critical. Authenticity allows your audience to trust you as the presenter and trust that your content is real and valuable. Statistics show that only one third of us believe ‘most people’ can be trusted, so how…

September 27, 2019

Structure every presentation

You persuade through reason; you motivate through emotion. That’s the nub of it. You will be persuasive if you: have an easy to follow structure for every presentation signpost (tell audience what is going on) regularly articulate and repeat a small number of clear messages Regular dollops of evidence help…

April 4, 2019

Consistently follow a preparation model

This month, I’m outlining my recommendations for Habit 2 – consistently follow a preparation model. Last month I stated that Habit 1 (you can catch up here, if you missed this one) is the most important habit, and that’s true. But, number 2 is the most helpful habit. Having a…

February 28, 2019

Keep your audience at the heart of every presentation

Habit 1: Keep your audience at the heart of every presentation. Of the 12 habits that make up our framework for exceptional presenting, this is the most important. It is the first habit for a reason - get this one wrong and you will fail. Lodge Habit 1 at the…