Virtual is Our New Reality

3 tips for effective virtual presentations

Russell Rowe
4 min readMar 27, 2020
Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

As we all experience various levels of mandated or self-imposed quarantines, it’s becoming more apparent that communicating virtually is our new reality. Most people are working from home and any meetings, presentations, or pitches are being delivered through some virtual platform. To make things worse, as we try to adapt to this new way of working and communicating we have news and information flying at us from all angles non-stop.

The good news is, you’re doing great! You’re still here and you have the means to communicate through the amazing technology we all have access to. We’ve all experienced virtual meetings and virtual presentations for years now but it’s still uncomfortable for many people. There are a ton of reasons virtual communication could be intimidating but there are also some things to remember that might make it a little easier.

Now that our primary form of communication is virtual, at least for a while, I think it’s time we started building up our virtual presentation skills.

Here are three tips to get you started.

It’s Just a Presentation

Don’t stress out so much! It’s a presentation. The word virtual tends to freak people out and make…

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Russell Rowe

I’m passionate about helping people become better communicators.