Digital Presentations: Nail Your Digital Presentations - 2 Essential Tips

Hi, I'm Thomas Anglero. I've done over 430 keynote speeches around the world, and I'm continuing on my series on mastering the art of public speaking. After doing so many speeches, people ask me, Thomas, what is the secret to nailing a great presentation digitally? I got you. Here we go. Let me share with you 2 tips that are really, really important. There are many tips, but these are the 2 most important. Number 1, camera. Your camera should be directly in line with your nose, okay? Whether you're using a mobile phone like I'm using now, or you're using a laptop, your laptop camera should be up and lifted right to where your nose is. I know that's weird. Go grab some paper or books, put it under the laptop, lift up the height so that it's directly in line. We do not want you to be looking down. Number one, human beings don't like being looked down to. And even if it's a subtle looking down, if I stood up, you would get the feeling more. Indirectly, the listener's going, why is he looking down on me? It's not good. You're already annoying your audience. And if it's a client you're presenting to, you're looking down on the client. You've already failed. Your nose should be directly in line with the camera. That's number 1. Tip number 2, that's probably even more critical, is you should always be looking at the camera, not at the screen. If you're looking at the screen, let's say you're on a Teams call, Zoom call, or whatever, and you're looking at all the different people talking, or you're looking at your own presentation, you lose connect because— see me, I'm looking down. At the screen and now look up. You should always be looking at the camera to keep the connection. The only thing you have digitally in terms of connection with the audience is that camera. So your eyes are the connection to your client. Your eyes, camera, eyes, camera. That is how you keep connected with the client. That's how you build trust. That's how you build confidence with the client that you're presenting to digitally. Your eyes are glued to that camera. The second you take it down, you can take it down for a second to see where you are in your PowerPoint, to see who's asking the question, and then you bring it right back up. If someone's asking you a question after you presented, let's say it's Q&A, you better be on that camera. So those are my two quick tips, super important tips on mastering the art of public speaking. I'm Thomas Anglero. If you have any more questions, let me know and I'll continue and I'll answer it in a future session of the series. Bye for now.