Outstanding Online Presentations

It’s that time of year again when the team at Consult Yorkshire normally get together for our annual Christmas meal and to celebrate the highlights of our year.

In any ’normal’ year, we would hold our December meeting during the morning - with coffee and homemade mince pies (courtesy of Mrs Shepherd) appearing near the top of the meeting agenda. 

This year, for obvious reasons, our Christmas meeting was hosted via Zoom.

As problem solving and change management is a big part of what we do at Consult Yorkshire - adapting our meeting & working practice has been a challenge that we collectively embraced.

This month we were treated to a selection of best practice suggestions by international speaker David Abbott.

David delivered a skills session on Outstanding Online Presentations. 

This covered aspects of how to run the best presentation possible over your platform of choice, be that Zoom, Teams, or Skype.

Key advice and takeaways included:

• Technical audio and visual set up options.

• Promoting an online event.

• Best practice for time keeping.

• How to keep an audience engaged when you are not physically in front of them.

• How polls and Q&A’s can help to create a more interactive presentation.

Although unable to deliver his scheduled presentation live during the meeting due to other professional commitments - David took time out of his busy schedule to prerecord his Skills Session.

David can be contacted via his profile page or you can view his prerecorded presentation on Youtube.

If you are a Yorkshire-based freelancer or independent consultant do get in touch. You’re welcome to attend our monthly Zoom meetings, held from 09:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month or join us for the current casual ‘Coffee Break’ catch-up every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.

At the end the end of the meeting we all agreed that digital mince pies are not as good as the real thing! 

We are are all looking forward to the time when we can meet in person again. Until then, enjoy the holidays and we look forward to catching up in the New Year.