As a followup to the Medical Device Success podcast, Dave did a video interview and demonstrated some techniques for delivering effective sales presentations virtually.
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
Webcam between two screens; Issue #473 September 15, 2020
Presenting over Zoom or Teams is here to stay. If you’ve been using your laptop webcam in presentations, you should look at getting an external webcam. An external webcam gives you much more flexibility in where it is placed and is often much better quality than the built-in camera in your laptop. If you look…
Put your webcam between 2 screens so you can speak directly to the attendees in Zoom on Windows
If you are using an external webcam, you’ve likely seen it always placed above a screen, whether that is the laptop screen or a monitor. With the webcam above the screen, to speak to the attendees you need to look up to the webcam and then to see the content on the screen you need…
Transition smoothly from grid view to sharing your slides in Presenter View with 1 screen in Zoom
In my video at https://youtu.be/jVTxnDdmNJ4 (Mac version at https://youtu.be/4jMn0yf3muo) I show you how to use Zoom’s sharing of a portion of the screen so that you can use PowerPoint’s Presenter View if you have a single screen. This allows you to see your slides and notes while the attendees only see your slides. Someone asked…
Presentation and Leave-behind in one file; Issue #472 September 1, 2020
You need your presentation to also serve as a leave behind document Increasingly our presentations also need to be available to people after the presentation. Either people who attended the presentation want to discuss it with others who were not there, or people who were not able to attend the presentation need to review what…
Recording your presentation; Issue #471 August 18, 2020
Schools have already started back in many parts of the US and they are scheduled to start back here in the next couple of weeks. There will likely be a mix of types of instruction and one important method will be recorded lessons or lectures. Teachers, professors, and trainers will be creating content to share…
Options for sharing PowerPoint slides in Webex (including Presenter View)
Webex by Cisco is one of the legacy web meeting platforms and that shows in the options they offer presenters for sharing PowerPoint slides during meetings. Their approach is different from that of Microsoft Teams or Zoom and they offer fewer options that don’t offer as good an experience for the presenter and meeting attendees.…
Use Google Slides Presenter View to see notes & show slides in Teams or Zoom (PowerPoint files too)
If your organization uses Google Slides and you have to deliver your presentation on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, you can use the Google Slides Presenter View to see your speaking notes while the meeting attendees only see your slides. If you use PowerPoint, this may be an option you can use to see your notes…
Use Google Slides Presenter View to see notes & show slides in Google Meet (PowerPoint files too)
If your organization uses Google Slides and you have to deliver your presentation on Google Meet, you can use the Google Slides Presenter View to see your speaking notes while the meeting attendees only see your slides. If you use PowerPoint, this may be an option you can use to see your notes and slides…
Conditional formatting of category in column chart; Issue #470 August 4, 2020
One of my most popular Excel Chart Tips videos is the one on conditional formatting of a column chart based on the values being categorized into ranges (video is here). Another option for conditional formatting is to visually focus the audience on one (or more) column based on a condition or a decision you make.…