How Sales Training Can lower customer retention cost
Effective Presentations Blog
by Mike Fruciano
2y ago
We’ve all been there—you’ve worked hard on your presentation and you know it like the back of your hand. But when the moment comes to begin that presentation, you aren’t sure where to begin. So, what comes out? Perhaps something like this: “Hi everyone, thanks for being here. Today I’m going to be talking about ‘Topic A,’ which includes point 1, point 2, and point 3. Let’s go ahead and get started.” That’s a fine introduction…but it’s one that everyone has heard before, time and time again. You want to stand out from the crows—not just another PowerPoint! Use something more powerful to open up ..read more
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How to Open a Presentation
Effective Presentations Blog
by Shawon
2y ago
We’ve all been there—you’ve worked hard on your presentation and you know it like the back of your hand. But when the moment comes to begin that presentation, you aren’t sure where to begin. So, what comes out? Perhaps something like this: “Hi everyone, thanks for being here. Today I’m going to be talking about ‘Topic A,’ which includes point 1, point 2, and point 3. Let’s go ahead and get started.” That’s a fine introduction…but it’s one that everyone has heard before, time and time again. You want to stand out from the crows—not just another PowerPoint! Use something more powerful to open up ..read more
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5 Ways to Make a Good First Impression Over Zoom
Effective Presentations Blog
by Mike Fruciano
3y ago
A Good Business Presentation Starts Strong If there’s one thing 2020 has taught us, it’s just how important effective communication is to the health and sustainability of a business. Every good business presentation starts with great communication. Until this year, a lot of businesses dabbled in online and digital communication, mostly in the form of emails and texts. Face-to-face communication was there—if we wanted it. A world-wide health pandemic changed all that. That’s when video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, and Google Hangouts really took off. For people sent home to work remotel ..read more
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How Introverts Can Survive in a Virtual World
Effective Presentations Blog
by Shawon
3y ago
Introverts: Working From Home Works If someone had told us five years ago that 40 percent (or more) of the American labor force would be working from home in 2020, I don’t know that we would have believed them. Sure, the number of people working partially or fully remote has been climbing for years now. But until Covid-19 hit, the upward trend was gradual. Today, and perhaps for many more months still, we’re navigating a “new normal” while we run our businesses remotely, with team members connected solely through email, phone, and video conferencing. For some, the change has been a hard adjust ..read more
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How to be an Authentic Communicator Today
Effective Presentations Blog
by Shawon
3y ago
Authentic Communication in a Pandemic World The challenge to be an effective communicator in our COVID-19 pandemic world is not as much about what you say but getting people to listen. Isolation, distractions, and fluid circumstances make it hard for people to focus on one thing, let alone pay attention to you. Passive listening is more prevalent as video call participants check email and social media accounts during calls. Non-verbal cues that help us communicate and understand each other are obscure. It is hard to get feedback from a participant who turns off their video. Now we must frame o ..read more
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5 Things you’re doing wrong on your virtual meetings
Effective Presentations Blog
by Breelyn
3y ago
By now, most of us are used to carrying on with socializing, going to school, or going to work via video conferencing software. Whether you use Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or other programs, you probably know a thing or two about how to have a successful virtual meeting. But are your virtual meetings effective? Here are 5 things you didn’t know you’ve been doing wrong on while meeting in a remote video platform. You have a busy or distracting background When speaking to someone in person, it can be annoying to watch your listener gazing around at things behind you or next to you. On Zoom, dire ..read more
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Why Storytelling In Business Matters
Effective Presentations Blog
by Shawon
4y ago
The Value of Storytelling Research has shown that messages delivered through a story can be as much as 22 times more memorable than facts alone. That’s because wrapping facts and figures in a story makes the listener hear your message in a more meaningful way. When you use storytelling in your business presentations, you tap into the natural way humans communicate. We’re inclined to act on messages that appeal to our emotions: fear, anger, sadness, frustration, and joy. Delivering statistics on their own doesn’t elicit any emotional responses. Tying those statistics to something that matters t ..read more
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The Virtual Medium is the Message
Effective Presentations Blog
by Shawon
4y ago
Tips on CARE-ful Communication   In this video address, we give an update on how Effective Presentations is responding to the unique needs of our clients. Here are the deeper insights that go along with those offerings. First, as I told my husband the other day, this is all so very… ‘this-y.’ Surreal and challenging. The global grief and gravity of the situation is hard to wrap our minds around and it’s also hard to keep up with, capture and communicate (well). We’re telling the story we’re all in! How has this been for you? Has the telling of the story been as much the focus as the stor ..read more
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Don’t Just Listen, Be An Active Listener
Effective Presentations Blog
by Mike Fruciano
4y ago
Business Communication Relies on Active Listening Stephen R. Covey said: “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” Everyone has an opinion and something to say, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The problem is when people spend too much time responding and not enough ..read more
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Creating the Perfect Elevator Pitch: Win Over Your Audience In Under a Minute
Effective Presentations Blog
by Mike Fruciano
4y ago
The Power of The Elevator Pitch Everyone’s heard of them, and maybe you know you need one, but you still haven’t taken the time to create the perfect elevator pitch. Everyone’s heard of them, and maybe you know you need one, but you still haven’t taken the time to create the perfect elevator pitch. Having […] The post Creating the Perfect Elevator Pitch: Win Over Your Audience In Under a Minute appeared first on Effective Presentations ..read more
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