With virtual meetings and presentations, the typical rules for engaging an audience have to be adapted to the new environment. How can you exude confidence when you’re speaking to your computer screen? Here’s one simple and inexpensive way to help you connect with listeners while presenting from home.

In this time of the pandemic causing crises around the world, we’ve seen some skilled presenters step forward to provide excellent examples of leadership because of their ability to deliver vital information in an understandable, conversational manner. Certainly there are many, but we’d like to recognize three people whose styles and approaches stand out to us.

For many of our clients, working from home while social distancing also means presenting from home. As virtual meetings become the norm for important organizational conversations and planning, how can you make sure your message comes through as loudly and clearly as if you were meeting in person?

EMS Communications is conducting virtual training/coaching sessions to help clients brush up their virtual communication skills and prepare for important meetings, so contact us about scheduling time for yourself and your teams.

During election night coverage on Super Tuesday, the most interesting presenter we watched talked too quickly, used repetitive gestures, and spoke with a clipboard in his hand. But his energy and his passion carried the day, and even though his message was complicated, he did an amazing job of engaging a TV audience.

As many of us prepare to vote in the upcoming presidential primaries, the Democratic presidential candidates just completed their last debate before Super Tuesday. EMS watched the seven candidates on stage, and hereby offer our general impressions of the speaking and presentational styles of each.

We often help our clients find and practice stories that they can tell when they present. Audiences respond to and remember personal stories more than any other part of a speech, bridging that gap between you just a little bit (and sometimes a lot!) We tell the story about Jack Nicklaus, and why he liked to wear yellow shirts on the golf course on Sundays.

Have you been wanting to participate in an EMS workshop but haven’t yet scheduled one for yourself or your team? Here’s something you can do right away: watch portions of the Impeachment Trial to get a real-world seminar in Team Presenting. Feel free to use our discussion questions to interpret and evaluate the strategies that both House Managers and White House lawyers are using to take advantage of individual strengths of their team members as they argue their cases in front of the Senate.

Hey EMS! Can I tell a joke in my presentation? It’s a common question. The best way to answer is by sharing examples of humor being used effectively (or ineffectively.) When it’s timely, on topic, and catches the audience off-guard, a joke can really make an impact. We appreciate a moment of humor injected into one of the marathon days on the Senate floor, delivered by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Those involved in the Impeachment trial have been facing some very long days. No one’s days have been longer, though, than for Chief Justice John Roberts, who hears Supreme Court cases in the morning before convening Senators for trial by afternoon. And though he doesn’t have a huge role in the trial, he chose to flex his muscles early in the proceedings, and we do mean early.

Regardless of where you land on today’s political spectrum, most will agree that President Donald Trump has a unique and powerful speaking presence. We’re sharing a very non-political look at the speaking style of our president. You’ll find some techniques that he does exceptionally well—and a few that you might want to try yourself!