HUGE TIP for professional speakers! How to use your laptop as a confidence (downstage) monitor

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This video shows speakers how to use your laptop as a confidence (i.e. downstage) monitor when the screen is behind you. See my equipment list in the notes below.
CONTEXT: Envision you are speaking to an audience of 25 people, 250 people or 2,500 people who are directly in front of you. But also envision your presentation screen(s) are behind you. How do you see your presentation slides without turning your back to the audience?
First, never your back to the audience. Don't do that! Perhaps you can lean to the side but you're still glancing backwards constantly. It just looks unprofessional and you'll feel out of place.
There might be an ugly lectern you can stand behind in one static place, but do you really want to stand behind that unprofessionally? Course not. And every time you walk over to it, the audience knows you are walking over the glance at your slides. I call this the "Joel Osteen" ... don't do it.
IMPORTANT: You need to see your slides because you want to ensure the slide you "think" you are on is actually the same presentation slide the audience is viewing. Sometimes you clicked the advance button on the remote "clicker" (i.e. slide advancer), but the slide did not actually advance. Don't you want to know that? Of course.
It's actually OK to occasionally glance at your slides to keep you on track during your speech as well. It's helpful when you are delivering new(er) content and it's OK. But it's not possible when the screen is behind you!
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT the screens are set up behind you ... or is it?
It might not be your fault, but you shouldn't be surprised on site. There's something you can do about it both BEFORE being on-site as well 1 hour just before your speech!
Did you ask the meeting planner in advance what the tech set up was going to be? Do you have an AV Requirements document so they know exactly what you need as the speaker in order to be set up for success?
During my final "Touchpoint Call" with a meeting planner, we always discuss tech set up one final time. Both my "Pre-Event Questionnaire" and "Event Checklist" walk you through the same questions I ask during this final discussion.
I don't give these documents out, but they are available in "The Vault" which is a comprehensive GoogleDrive folder comprised of ALL the documents, contracts, checklists and samples I use in my own speaking business. (I'm always adding to "The Vault." In fact, I just added a revised speaking proposal this morning with a new clause I've never added before.)
Vault link: www.paidtospea...
So let's get to the point ... what if there was an EASY SOLUTION when the screen is behind you and you don't want to be shackled behind an ugly lectern unprofessionally? There is. Watch this video!!
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