Over the next few weeks, you can expect a lot of in-person meetings and presentations will move to Zoom and other video conferencing formats. How to remain effective when presenting remotely will become a key question for much of the workforce.
If it’s an important presentation and you’re concerned about the new medium, ask a colleague to do a dry run with you and give feedback. They can tell you how you’re coming off on camera, if it’s hard to understand you, or if you’re doing anything distracting.
“Especially right now with what we’re dealing with, socially isolating, working from home and minimizing spread of COVID-19, we need a little bit of flexibility and some extra patience,” says Carla Bevins, assistant teaching professor of business communications at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. “If something doesn’t go right the first time, it’s okay. There are people out there who can help us out.”
Read the article at Fortune.