The document discusses how SMART products can help increase productivity in organizations by enabling more effective meetings, presentations, and training. It describes common productivity issues like time spent in meetings and training that takes people away from their desks. SMART solutions like interactive whiteboards, pen displays, and conferencing software allow people to collaborate remotely, share information visually, and stay engaged. This helps improve meeting outcomes, presentation impact, and training retention. A variety of SMART products are presented as affordable options to address these productivity problems through digital collaboration and content sharing capabilities.
This presentation mirrors the product guide for the corporate market in both messaging and appearance. Use it with the product guide when you meet with prospective customers.
The presentation is designed for you to involve your audience as you present. Ideally, you can write notes over the slides as your audience provides feedback.
These meeting/presentation hours are quite conservative. Ask your audience how much time their management spends in meetings. Higher-level managers often spend even more time in meetings. If their systems were down for six working days every month, your audience would do something about it.
Obtain feedback from your audience on what tools they already use (e.g., whiteboards, flip charts).
SMART products help you work with information directly, so you can rework documents as a group rather than manually write down everyone’s comments and then make changes later.
Obtain feedback from your audience.
Taken from EffectiveMeetings.com. See the citation in the product guide.
Presentations that really matter should result in some sort of decision (e.g., to buy, to approve). SMART products are ideal for this purpose because they increase presentation effectiveness. Not only do you have engaging visuals, but you can incorporate audience feedback. As Aristotle says, “The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.”
Obtain feedback from your audience. Trainers in traditional environments often must run between a computer and a whiteboard or flip chart. They need to prepare physical class material (notes for themselves, handouts, transparencies). These things are time-consuming actions that SMART products can eliminate.
Learners will always want to take notes in a training session. But saving notes for them means that they don’t have to capture every word – just items that are important to them.
Interactive whiteboards and interactive pen displays have the same functionality, and Bridgit software can be used seamlessly with both.