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How to Use Prezi for Remote Presentations

Writen by: Pablo Povarchik

, May 28, 2015

Let’s face it, the world has gotten smaller. At the same time, it has gotten larger. With the advances in technology, you can now take a simple phone call and make it a live event. Your presentations have even kicked it up several levels. Prezi’s remote presentation feature gives you the ability to travel thousands of miles to a board room with the click of a button. Instead of just talking about this amazing feature, we are going to show you how to use it from a technical viewpoint.

Setting up the Presentation

You have a game changing meeting that is hundreds of miles from your office. A conference call has worked in the past. Then comes the screen sharing technology that really made a difference. But there were quality issues with this. Lagging, frozen, and completely absent. Everyone has to have the same software. Annoying! All that is changed with Prezi’s Remote presentation feature.

You start by signing up for a Prezi account. If you are just getting started and don’t need to keep your content private, the free account is perfect for you. Once you have your account made and your presentation built, you need to know how to remote present it hundreds of miles away. Make it feel like you are right in the room and not lose quality of what you’re presenting.

Creating The Link

The first step is to create the remote presentation link. With this link you can send it off to as many as 30 people on any device. Mobile uses will need to install the Prezi app (it’s free).

Then you click the Present remotely button and the drop down menu opens. Press the copy button. Now you can send this link by:

+ Text Message

+  Instant Message

+ Any other method you find perfect to get it to another device

Starting The Remote Presentation

Now that you have sent the link off to your audience, it’s time to start the remote presentation. Once it has loaded, you will see the first screen and all the participants.

You can now drive the presentation in real time to them. The quality stays crystal clear. You even can pass the controls off to one of the participants. If you decided to have more than one presenter and you are not in the same location, no worries. Just click on their profile icon on the right. You have the option to hand over controls.

Check out our Prezi on how to use Prezi for Remote Presentation:

Simple, Easy, and Powerful

Now you can drive your presentations remotely without any additional software. Quality isn’t lost, which can really kill your message if it cannot be seen. Using remote presentations in this way makes you stand out.

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Supporting collaboration and teamwork in a hybrid workplace

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Meghan Ryan June 01, 2021

As the economy opens up, there is a lot of demand to maintain the flexibility and advantages of a remote workplace without sacrificing the opportunities and bonding that happen when teams are physically together. Rather than choosing one or the other, many companies are opting for hybrid workplaces, where employees flex between in-office and remote working .

The tricky thing with hybrid workplaces is that not everyone has equal face time with managers and coworkers. Focusing on how your remote and in-office team members can collaborate together will help your hybrid office run more smoothly. Thought leaders used Prezi Video to share their takes on collaboration in a hybrid workplace and to surface new ways for you to support productivity and teamwork.

Promote trust 

Trust is a fundamental part of a collaborative hybrid workplace because it gives your team the comfort to take positive risks, like asking for and sharing feedback, addressing conflicts, and making better decisions. 

So how do you build trust in your team? Liane Davey , Ph.D. and author of The Good Fight , recommends focusing on four key elements of trust: 

• Predictability and a sense of connection with others.
• Confidence in one another. Each person knows and trusts that everyone else can accomplish their tasks. 
• Reliability. Your team knows the others will deliver and can depend on them coming through.
• Integrity, vulnerability, and transparency in your work.

Watch Liane’s video for more about the role of trust in a hybrid workplace:

Be aware of distance and recency biases

When you see the same group of people every day in the office, it’s not uncommon to develop unconscious biases that favor those people in your immediate vicinity. This is a distance bias, and you can see it rear its ugly head when in-office team members are given more opportunities than their remote counterparts.

Similarly, you’ll want to watch out for recency bias, which occurs when we put more value on people and things that we’ve interacted with more recently. A good example of this is placing more significance on an employee’s performance which faltered in the last quarter instead of their consistent performance leading up to it. 

The best thing you can do is be aware of these biases so you can identify and cut them out when they’re starting to slip into your interactions with your team. Christa Hurchalla , Sr. Director of Client Services and Training at Virtual Work Insider , discusses unconscious biases and other secrets for successful collaboration in a hybrid workplace in her Prezi video:

The team at Virtual Work Insider also provides free resources for hybrid work that are helpful for any company new to the hybrid model.

Be real and authentic 

If there’s a silver lining to the pandemic, it’s that it has pushed us to be more authentic with one another. By now, we’ve seen glimpses into our coworkers’ homes and met their dogs and roommates. That level of authenticity has become the norm and will continue to be expected, even after employees return to the office. 

Carson Tate , the Managing Partner at Working Simply , discusses authentic leadership and the future of work in her Prezi video. When you’re real with your team, you recognize the stress and limitations that your team might be dealing with, and you cultivate an environment of trust and vulnerability that ultimately drives more engagement.

Watch her video for a deeper understanding of authenticity and how it plays out in your day-to-day work life:

Be proactive at every phase of team building

Your hybrid team won’t become a well-oiled machine overnight. It takes time and effort to develop your team, and a good leader is proactive at each phase of team building. 

Jana Piske is a coach for remote and hybrid working teams and the founder of Fairlinked . She breaks down the hybrid team development process into 5 phases:

• Forming – The beginning of a project with a new team.
• Storming – Creating new processes and establishing what collaboration will look like.
• Norming – Putting into practice the ground rules you’ve established in the storming phase.
• Performing – At this point, you have a high-performing team that works efficiently and effectively.
• Adjourning – The end of a project, where you reflect on your work and say thank you for the hard work.

In her Prezi video, Jana outlines each phase of the team development process and also defines the leader’s role. Watch her video for more:

What’s the role of your office?

Nadia Harris , the founder of RemoteWorkAdvocate.com , discusses several tips for effective hybrid workplace collaboration in her Prezi video. One of her tips is to define the role that your office plays and think strategically about how you’re using the space to hold meetings.

While it’s tempting to default to holding all meetings virtually because not everyone is in the office, Nadia advises against this. When you urge your team to be intentional about the meetings that they hold in the office versus the ones they hold virtually, they’ll have more effective meetings overall.

Watch Nadia’s full video here for more on collaboration and hybrid work:

The future of work is hybrid, and the way you react to changes and new workplace trends will help your team collaborate and be more productive. Discover more tips and advice on hybrid work when you view our Video Gallery .

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