This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.
Public speaking is nerve-racking for most people and is often named as the one thing people fear most. Michael Diederich knows how to take your (online) presentation skills to the next level. He shares practical tips for learning to present, ranging from powerful body language to speaking with passion, and how to connect with your audience.
In addition to sharing useful insights, Michael will take you on fun exercises, making this a fun, bold, and highly interactive session.
During the expert session, Michael Diederich engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations using Mentimeter app for interactive exercises, and sharing personal stories to illustrate key concepts. Michael provides practical tips on creating effective online presentations or sales pitches, emphasizing body language, appearance, focus, proper breathing techniques, and understanding cultural nuances.
He encourages participants to practice their presentations, be authentic, and maintain confidence in their expertise.
Applying improvisation techniques learned from Michael Diederich's session can significantly boost brainstorming, interaction, and communication skills in presentations.
Implementing practical tips like maintaining focus, utilizing good lighting and a neutral background, and conveying confidence through body language can create effective online presentations or sales pitches.
Becoming aware of how our body language influences audience perception and adopting deliberate postures can help build confidence, establish authority, and keep the audience engaged during virtual meetings.
In this expert session, Michael Diederich, an accomplished workshop trainer and international public speaker with a background in entertainment and teaching, engages the audience in an interactive presentation on public speaking. Michael shares his belief that improvisation techniques can significantly benefit businesses by enhancing brainstorming, interaction, and communication skills.
Michael discusses the importance of understanding various cultures' speaking styles and finding a balance between authenticity and enthusiasm. The expert session focuses on breaking down public speaking concerns into manageable categories – what you hear, see, and feel.
To maintain audience engagement, Michael shares examples, asks questions using the Mentimeter app, and offers tips for handling challenges like maintaining focus, proper breathing techniques, and handling nervousness during long presentations.
Michael also emphasizes the significance of one's appearance and environment in effectively communicating with audiences. He believes that maintaining a neutral background with good lighting can help keep the audience's attention and create a more professional appearance.
Michael shares his experience dealing with less-than-ideal backgrounds and encourages participants to adapt to their circumstances, focusing on controlling what they can.
Throughout the session, Michael offers practical advice for creating an engaging online presentation or sales pitch. He suggests standing up while presenting online to generate more energy and focus, as well as utilizing proper breath control for effective communication.
In terms of visuals, he emphasizes the importance of ensuring that one's face and expression are clearly visible to maintain eye contact and build trust with the audience.
Michael also explores the impact of body language on perception during virtual meetings, encouraging participants to sit up straight and adopt confident postures for enhanced engagement and focus. He emphasizes understanding power dynamics and suggests adopting a kingly or superhero stance to build confidence and authority while presenting.
Michael advises participants to be aware of their body language and make deliberate efforts to convey enthusiasm and energy through their posture and tone.
Michael stresses the importance of practicing presentations and recording oneself for self-evaluation. He encourages participants to focus on their message rather than getting distracted by perceived negative feedback from the audience.
The expert session concludes with Michael sharing his experiences on introducing oneself in different settings and the importance of being authentic while presenting.
Michael advises experimenting with different poses and facial expressions during practice sessions to find one's neutral stance and encourages recording presentations for later analysis instead of using mirrors during the actual presentation.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Very good session! Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed the session, it was a interactive and fun session. Not a moment that my attention was drifted. Will definitely follow for more.
People focus on what they hear, see and feel. Use your hands, stand still, look into the camera, no jokes (unless you are comedian) and make honest contact. And practice with your dog or kid :) good tip as I never speak a speech out loud first Thank you!
Thank you for an enlightened workshop. I already use several tips and it brought me a lot (recording, practicing and dress for success). The small thought with huge effect will stick with me (regal vs super hero) from now on as well.
The speaker notes with an inspirational picture, to enthusiasm yourself.
Excellent presentation
I think it was a very interesting talk about how to become a better presenter. It was engaging and interesting!
How to use your feelings/energy as a motivation for an engaging presentation.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Public speaking is nerve-racking for most people and is often named as the one thing people fear most. Michael Diederich knows how to take your (online) presentation skills to the next level. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.
Michael Diederich is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.4 out of 5, across 263 responses, and rate Michael personally 4.6 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Michael, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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