In her recent TED Connects discussion on “How to be your best self in times of crisis,” Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David shares how to build resilience, courage and joy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We challenge you to practice these steps as you work remotely or tackle any new projects!
Over the last month, we’ve seen how the coronavirus has impacted the live events industry. Now, more speakers are focused on how they can use podcasts and webinars to build their brands virtually. In order to become an effective and great virtual speaker, you’re going to need to rely on some tech. We’ve listed 10 of our favorite hardware and software investments to level up your podcast and webinar speaking game.
Preparing for an event comes with a long checklist of tasks, and creating a visually engaging presentation can often be a stressful one. Catching your audiences’ eye is one obstacle, but keeping it is another. Having a visually engaging presentation is an easy way to help your audience absorb and retain the information you will be speaking about.
“I work remote” has quickly become a buzz phrase in our everyday vernacular. Whether our virtual lifestyles are due to social distancing in response to COVID-19 or simply the ever-changing nature of work, adjustments to our daily routines and workplaces have been unavoidable.
Working remotely has its challenges, so why not make things a little easier? We have compiled some of our favorite tips & tricks from experts on telecommuting to help us through this time of extreme uncertainty.
With the current climate and situation surrounding COVID-19, thought leaders are transitioning and adapting to virtual formats to continue sharing their ideas and solutions. There are many tools and tips to help adapt a presentation to online, but one hurdle remains: how do you keep a virtual audience engaged when you can’t read the “digital room”?
We put together a few helpful tips to ensure your presentations are engaging and prevent attendees from clicking “leave meeting.”
Switching up your speaking strategy can be a daunting task—especially when it calls for shifting away from being on stage, and toward being on screen. In this time of extreme global uncertainty, many conferences and events are either being canceled, postponed, or moving to virtual—from Facebook’s F8, to Google’s Cloud Next, to Austin’s famed SXSW (see our running list of events here). As the events industry looks to tackle the challenges wrought by COVID-19, the question stands: how can speakers stay ahead of the curve while also doing their part to flatten it?
When you think of the term “thought leader,” what comes to mind? It’s always been defined as being a known expert or trusted source in your field. Thought leadership exposes your business to your market in a credible way. To build it, it's important to step up and bring your industry to a higher level of thinking about the strategic problems it faces.
As we face this abrupt shift in our lifestyles with COVID-19, nothing changes with how we define thought leadership, but we are needing to get more creative with how we practice it. What remains consistent amid all these changes(and arguably now more than ever)?
Looking to take that next step forward to increase positive exposure for you and your company? It may be time to take the stage.
Speaking at conferences can be a key tactic to ensuring your brand gets in front of target audiences that matter the most. Yet, building a speaking program calls for more than just relying on your ideas alone to bring results.
We’ve compiled a checklist of six essential steps to consider before getting on stage and taking the mic.
This post was originally posted on the Max Borges Agency blog as a contributed article by cred.
