Got a question for you... Are you mentally preparing for your web conferences? We must mentally prepare for putting on that one of a kind web conference.
A good example of not mentally preparing for an excellent web conferencing presentation happened to me last night. I have a scheduled weekly get together with my team in my Barefoot Business Conference Center. This presentation went just as planned, prepared, and re-hearsed. It was the web conferencing presentation that came after this one that I struggled with. Let me explain...
This web conference was a group of Veretekk Trainers called together to do a web conference production for the new SOHO-matic traffic portal. I went into this web conference tired and not mentally prepared. After arriving in the web conference, even though it was late.. I got my second wind and did my 3 minute talk and it sounded pretty good.
What I wasn't prepared for was waiting for all the other 30 trainers to finish their presentation and learning that this was a "pratice" presentation. I have to be honest by the time I finished listening to all the other trainers, (some of them had took much more than the alloted 3 minutes) I was both mentally and physically whipped.
I tried to do my talk again and just didn't have it in me to preform. The moral of this story is. Don't agree to do something you aren't mentally perepared for, most of the time you will be dis-satisfied as I was last night.
I learned a long time ago in life there are no mistakes only lessons and those lesson's are repeated until they are learned. Last night I learned my lesson. I will never agree to stretch myself further then I know mentally I can prepare for.
One tool I use to mentally prepare for a web conference is music that moves me. Depending on my mood what kind of music that is. If you haven't tried music to mentally prepare you for a web conferencing event try it.. you could be suprised.
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