Remote Presentation Skills: Hook & Command the Room

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Remote Presentation Skills: Hook & Command the Room
Presenting in person is one thing. Presenting when your team and the client are all spread arcross tiny video windows is another challenge altogether – particularly when there’s a lot at stake like a new business pitch or critical client presentation. Making matters worse,...
Remote Presentation Skills: Hook & Command the Room
Presenting in person is one thing. Presenting when your team and the client are all spread arcross tiny video windows is another challenge altogether – particularly when there’s a lot at stake like a new business pitch or critical client presentation. Making matters worse, none of the clients even have their cameras on.
In these moments, the ability to hook, command, and persuade your audience is critical.
We’ll start with your presentation materials. Weak decks filled with cluttered and uninspired slides can derail even the strongest presenters. Specifically for remote situations, you’ll learn how to sharpen content and design to make your message clearer, more compelling, and impossible to ignore.
Next, we’ll tackle delivery. Remote presentations demand a different kind of energy – one that projects authority, confidence, and engagement without feeling forced or flat. You’ll learn techniques to bring this presence, both individually and as a team.
This will include addressing how to:
- Immediately hook your audience within the first two minutes
- Compel clients to turn their cameras on
- Create more dialogue and active engagement
- Re-engage clients who have lost interest
- Manage team transitions (both tech and delivery)
- Close each presentation in a way that motivates the client to immediately take action
- Conduct effective rehearsals for your team
- Establish a set of techniques that can be replicated across all remote presentations
Ultimately, learn how to create the kind of “virtual chemistry” that makes prospects and clients lean in rather than check out.
Training Materials
Following the session, those who attend will receive one week of recording access.
Who Should Attend
This series will have the greatest impact on those senior and mid-level team members who regularly present to clients and new business prospects.
Instructors

Brent Hodgins
Mirren | Managing Director
Brent Hodgins is the Managing Director at Mirren, a firm that specializes in organic growth and new business training for agencies in digital, PR, advertising, media, experiential and more. Each year, more than 900 agencies now participate in Mirren’s annual conference, training programs and webinars (www.mirren.com). Their team has now trained CEOs and their senior management teams in every major region around the world.
Brent is highly competitive as he rallies his agency clients to build the infrastructure necessary for consistent growth – applying methods that are far more innovative and efficient. He believes that growing an agency is not about throwing more money at it. Rather, it’s how you organize the resources you already have in place. He can also be heard encouraging agency teams to stop submissively bowing down to their clients. “As soon as you put the client up on a pedestal, you lower your position in their mind. It’s a downward spiral from there. If you bring a high level of expertise to the table, then take a stand and command the respect you deserve as a peer.”
His approach to converting organic growth and new business is down to a science – strategic and methodical – but often contrarian. Too many agencies are using the same old dated methods. And, often with no consistency whatsoever. If no one breaks from this sea of sameness, nothing will change.
Brent began his career in account management at Leo Burnett, where he worked on Kellogg’s, Johnson & Johnson and McDonald’s. Later at TBWA\Chiat\Day he launched their digital group in New York, before moving into new business at Wieden + Kennedy.
After 10 years in New York, Mirren moved its offices to Seattle. Brent resides in the Ballard area with his wife and son.

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