Confident Teleseminar Leader

Timing Your Presentation

An important skill that speakers need to exhibit is the ability to shorten or lengthen their program on demand. There may be occasion where you are sharing the platform with other presenters and the program runs over schedule requiring you to shorten you... Read >

Facilitation Versus Teaching

The idea of facilitating training programs and presentations is an intriguing one for many professionals. But too often people have a misperception of facilitation thinking that it is more about standing in front of a group of people and demonstrating th... Read >

Creating a Presentation That Will Impact Your Audience

You are asked to speak in front of your local organization or present an online seminar, but you have no idea what to say. Or even worse, you have so many thoughts that you want to share that it will take days to deliver the message. The last thing you w... Read >

7 Tips for Leading a Successful Teleseminar

At the heart of good facilitation of a workshop, teleseminar or other learning program is to let participants discover learning for themselves. As the facilitator, be open to allowing participants to express the learning that is most important to them. Y... Read >

Common Mistakes of First-time Facilitators

A well thought out training program has many moving parts that a facilitator must successfully manage. People new to facilitation are often unaware of their own actions, mannerisms, and body language, especially those tendencies that may be having an adv... Read >

Moving Past Your Fears

If you are new to training, you may be thinking, "Can I really pull this off? Can I really speak confidently about a topic in front of others? I'm not an expert; will participants ask me something I don't know? Can I move past my fear of public speaking?... Read >

Mistakes to Avoid When Using PowerPoint

One of the fundamental truths in designing a training program is that training is not about the instructor and his or her content, but rather, it is about the participants and their learning needs. This truth applies to both the design of a training prog... Read >

The Three P’s of Facilitation

You may have heard of the 4P’s of marketing (Product, Price, Place, Promotion), but did you know that there are P’s for facilitation too? Three of them in fact! These are important things you want to pay attention to when you are conducting a live train... Read >

Preparing the Learner to Learn

The opening of your program or presentation may be the most important part of it. Unfortunately, this part is often overlooked, neglected, or downplayed in its importance. Does that surprise you? Believing that it’s important to jump into the enorm... Read >