PowerPoint Online

Owning Your PowerPoint Presentation

The confidence and familiarity that you have with your online PowerPoint presentation are crucial elements in engaging your audience. Most audience members, especially those that attend online presentations, have been in quite a few client meetings and heard many sales pitches. It is easy for them to realize when you are delivering a presentation that someone else created. It can be just as easy to tell when someone is using an online PowerPoint presentation that someone else has put together.

Become familiar enough with your content, that you could deliver a successful presentation even with out your PowerPoint slides. Use the slides as a visual aid for your audience, and not a crutch for yourself. Speak to simple bullet points and never read the slides verbatim. In an online presentation, you need to not only be familiar and confident with your material, but also be comfortable using your web conference company’s online tools for delivering your presentation. Run through the presentation with friends or colleagues to make sure that you know how to use the interface. Keep your web conference company’s phone number handy so that you can contact them immediately if you have any problems during your presentation.

Owning your presentation requires that you know everything about the information within and function of the presentation itself. Audience members will be much more receptive and engaged if they feel you are speaking to them and not to your presentation. When you can own your presentation and are comfortable working with the web conference interface, you become free to connect with your audience and excel as a presenter.