by Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator Kevin and Wayne spend an entire chapter (chapter 11 if you want to reference) in The Long-Distance Leader talking about the importance of trust with remote teams and unpacking their model (see below). Trust is one of those "squishy" concepts, however, that can make some leaders uneasy. While it's usually pretty apparent when … [Read more...]
Reduce Multi-Tasking on Remote Meetings
This is the third in a series of simple presentation tips that will make your web meetings, webinars and presentations more effective. Your webmeeting platform has a lot of cool features. Unfortunately, that doesn’t matter much because you’re likely not using them. As a rule, 80% of people use 20% of the features of online presentation tools. Why not? Because most of us … [Read more...]
Dead Air Won’t Destroy Your Virtual Presentation
Here’s another in a short series of simple tips to make your virtual presentations, meetings and sales demos more effective. This one involves shutting up and thinking about hippopotamuses (or is it hippopotami?). Yes, I'm serious. One of the biggest complaints audiences have about online presenters is they talk too quickly. They insist on giving their entire presentation … [Read more...]
Where Are Your Audience’s Eyes Looking?
This is the first in a series of seemingly simple web presentation techniques. When you read this, you will probably say “duh.” But the next time you’re on a webinar or web meeting, see how often people don’t do these things, and how much it impacts your experience as an audience member. The next time you’re on a webinar or web meeting, pay attention to see if the speaker is … [Read more...]
What Does Engagement Look Like?
Engagement is one of the topics remote leaders lose the most sleep over. In a recent poll, we learned that “keeping the team engaged” is more of a concern for leaders than team communication, measuring performance or making sure people are working when they say they are. So, there's no doubt today's question is one that's on the mind of every Long-Distance Leader, but a … [Read more...]