Quick Fixes for Snooze-Worthy Webinars
Even the worst webinars can have useful information. It’s just harder to identify when you’re slogging through boring or hard-sell presentations.
It’s a shame as the presenter to have a valuable gift for your audience, then bury it under an awful presentation. Most people don’t start out as terrific public speakers. Yet everyone can be good enough with practice and the right strategy going in.
We Speak and Write Differently
You don’t have to be a writing/speaking/presentation professional to instantly know when someone is reading a typed script.
When speaking to another person, sometimes the sentences aren’t grammatically correct, run long, or end up overly complicated. But most everyone can eventually get to the point — even if it takes a long time to get there.
We’re taught in school that the more commas and semicolons you can stuff into a sentence, the better grades your paper will get. The first trick is to unlearn this. It’ll take time, but it’s a worthwhile writing skill to have.
You have two quick fixes for an essay-like script. First, when you’re going through and rereading it, read it aloud to yourself. (Your computer can also read it to you.) You will hear all of the problems, even if you don’t know a thing about grammar.
