The weather has finally gotten warm enough here to spend a large part of this past weekend outside. We had our first meals this year out on the deck and patio. When the weather is so nice, you don’t want to spend any more time inside creating slides than you have to. In this newsletter…
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.
8 ways to engage your audience when presenting in a Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting
By now most business professionals have become familiar with the basics of presenting in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. We know how to turn the camera on or off, mute and unmute ourselves (although we all forget to unmute before speaking sometimes), and share our PowerPoint slides. The bar has been raised from the first meetings…
Seeing your Speaking Notes in PowerPoint while presenting slides in a Zoom meeting if you only have one screen
One of the most common questions that has been asked about presenting PowerPoint slides in a Zoom meeting is how to use Presenter View if you only have one screen. Presenters who use this mode have been accustomed to adding their speaking notes in the Notes section below the slides. Presenter View displays the slides…
Seeing your Speaking Notes in PowerPoint while presenting slides in Microsoft Teams if you only have one screen
One of the most common questions that has been asked about presenting PowerPoint slides in a Microsoft Teams meeting is how to use Presenter View if you only have one screen. Presenters who use this mode have been accustomed to adding their speaking notes in the Notes section below the slides. Presenter View displays the…
Playing a YouTube video in a Zoom meeting
A video clip can be a compelling addition to a presentation. You may want to show a product demo, a software technique, or a process illustration. If that video is on YouTube and you want to show it in a Zoom meeting, this article shows you how to prepare and play it during the presentation.…
Playing a YouTube video in a Microsoft Teams meeting
A video clip can be a compelling addition to a presentation. You may want to show a product demo, a software technique, or an entertaining clip. If that video is on YouTube and you want to show it in a Microsoft Teams meeting, this article shows you how to prepare and play it during the…
640 AM Toronto radio May 21 2020
Dave was interviewed by Alan Carter (also host of the Global nightly news) discussing the future of business meetings. Listen to the clip below. .
Building your skills for Teams & Zoom meetings; Issue #465 May 26, 2020
In the last newsletter I shared how meetings in the future will be different and shared links to my videos and guide that review some of the challenges and solutions. These ideas were quoted in an article in Canada’s national business newspaper and led to a radio interview last week. Presenters need to prepare for…
The Globe and Mail May 21 & 22, 2020
Harvey Schachter featured Dave’s Guide to the Future of Business Meetings in his online column titled “The new rules for presentations in the age of restricted meeting sizes“. The column was included in the print edition of the paper the next day on May 22 2020.
Engage audiences with polls and exercises in Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings by using Microsoft Forms
As many professionals have flocked to virtual meeting platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, they have realized that engaging a remote audience is harder than engaging an audience in the meeting room. One of the most popular suggestions is to use polls or exercises, especially if you are teaching or explaining a skill. The problem…