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Try out online platforms before you use them the first time.
- 00:04 You may love technology, you may be a master of technology, you might be able to
- 00:08 pick apart your whole computer, put it back together again, that's great.
- 00:12 But a word of warning, when you are giving a presentation here in the middle of
- 00:17 a meeting, online, it's with important clients, customers, colleagues,
- 00:23 people you work with every day, you're still going to be a little bit nervous.
- 00:28 What I mean by that is not that your hands are shaking or
- 00:32 you're going to have flop sweat, but that it's simply not the best time for
- 00:37 your brain to learn some new technical skill.
- 00:40 The time to learn, the specifics of Zoom, or Skype, or WebEx, or
- 00:45 Google Hangouts, is before the actual meeting,
- 00:49 when you have absolutely no pressure, no one's looking at you.
- 00:54 I'm sure you've seen in real life before people at conferences about to
- 00:59 give a PowerPoint presentation and they can't get things to work and
- 01:03 they're sort of hunched over, they're sweating, they're apologizing,
- 01:09 this worked fine back at the home, office, and you feel sorry for them.
- 01:14 But this is not how you want to start a presentation in real life or online.
- 01:20 So I'm begging you, even if you're great at technology and
- 01:25 you're a quick learner, don't try to learn in actual meetings.
- 01:29 You want to be really comfortable, confident,
- 01:32 you want to know you've already gone through a rehearsal on that technology,
- 01:36 and you're not learning a new thing on the technology during your meeting.
- 01:41 You're learning from what the other participants are saying.
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