- About This Book
- Acknowledgment
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Medium You Did Not Train For
- Chapter 2: What This Is Costing You Right Now
- Chapter 3: Why AI Cannot Fix This
- Chapter 4: The Modern Engagement Standard
- Chapter 5: Why One-to-One Is the Design
- Chapter 6: The Assessment Map: Diagnosis and Tiers for Action
- Chapter 7: The Singular Next Step: Move from Recognition to Action
- Participant Technical Form
- Notes
- Key Terms
- Frequently Asked Questions
- About the Book and the Author
- Author's Positions
The Modern Engagement Standard
How Senior Leaders Train Teams to Show Up, Speak Clearly, and Get Results on Zoom, Teams, Meet, and Every Online Platform
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Sales numbers. Conversion rates. Interview outcomes. Your people are measured on results every quarter. The webcam through which those results travel is rarely examined. Five signals decide how a person comes across on camera, and most were never taught any of them. Much of what you find gets fixed in the looking.
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THE MODERN ENGAGEMENT STANDARD
Count the people in your organization who appear on a webcam in a given week. It is not the leadership team. It is most of the payroll.
They run client calls, team meetings, interviews, training sessions, and panels, all inside a small frame on a screen.
Most were never trained for it.
Sales numbers. Conversion rates. Interview outcomes. Your people are already measured on results every quarter. The webcam through which those results travel is rarely examined.
Engagement is not whether they are watching. It is whether they are watching passively or actively.
The Modern Engagement Standard identifies the five signals that determine how a person comes across on camera: Eye Contact, Lighting, Sound, Background, and Gestures.
The five are the same for everyone. The order you fix them in is not.
When these are off, the cost is real. Deals stall. Training does not land. Strong new hires get underestimated.
This book is written for the L&D professional. It shows you how to see the five signals in your own people. Much of what you find gets fixed in the looking.
It then introduces the Webcam Presence Assessment. Thirty people. Thirty individual sessions. Each person evaluated against the five, and a tiered plan showing where to invest next.
This is not a how-to. It is a benchmark. Here are the five things an audience notices, and here is what good looks like.
I have coached presenters for over twenty five years. The webcam changed everything about the job, and the training has not caught up.
Ray Franklin, The Presentation Coach coach to Fortune 500 executives, attorneys, telehealth practioners and TEDx speakers.
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Ray Franklin, Presentation Coach
Ray Franklin is a presentation coach with over 25 years of experience and is known as the #AudienceAdvocate. He has coached Fortune 500 executives, multiple TEDx speakers, and senior leaders preparing for board presentations, investor calls, town halls, and product launches.
His focus is webcam presence: how leaders come across on camera, and how to make it credible. He coaches one-to-one via webcam, the same medium in which his clients are judged. Ray created National Practice Speaking In Public Day and wrote On The Job Speech Training. He works from Leesburg, Florida.
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