Robert Daverschot
Moderator, presenter and speaker coach
Robert Daverschot is a professional moderator, presenter and speaker coach. He has worked in the Netherlands and abroad, across many industries, and has interviewed ministers, business leaders and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In rooms he hosts, he uses Sendsteps so every attendee can respond, not only the people who speak first. That turns events into a dialogue.
Articles
58 articles on the Sendsteps blog.
Meetings & Teams
10 Tips: Employee Event with an Inconvenient Message
How to deal with an employee event that is less fun? How can organizations prepare a storyline for this important and strategic event?
Presentation Skills
10 tips that will take your online presentation to the next level
Knowing how to properly present online is a must in this day and age. However, it can be a bit difficult to make an online presentation personal or to find…
Audience Engagement
3 Benefits of an Interactive Word Cloud Generator in Presentations
Interactive presentations aren’t just about the content of your presentation; it’s also about how you communicate it to your audience. Choosing an…
Meetings & Teams
3 Ways to Boost Team Morale with Interactive Team Meetings
As you’re probably well aware, morale can have a huge impact on productivity and the bottom line of your company. It’s important to keep team morale high,…
Presentation Skills
5 Ways to Keep Attendees Engaged at Your Next Event
Attending business events can be valuable, but it’s also easy to get bored when you’re just sitting and listening to speakers talk. Here are five ways you…
Public Speaking
5 Ways to Look Confident During a Presentation
If you’re nervous about speaking in front of an audience, it can be hard to look confident while you’re delivering your presentation. If you want to look…
Presentation Skills
4 Ways to Use the Power of a Smile to Improve Your Presentation
Have you ever considered the power of your smile? When used correctly, a smile can make your presentation far more engaging, resulting in better audience…
Public Speaking
Improve Your Non-Verbal Communication During Presentation: 6 Ways
Body language and non-verbal communication are often used interchangeably, but they refer to different things. Body language refers to the movements of your…
Meetings & Teams
7 Ways to Increase Engagement in Meetings
Engagement in meetings tends to get lower and lower as the meeting goes on, regardless of how well-organized it started out. Many meetings don’t actually…
Public Speaking
7 Ways to Keep Your Interactive Presentation from Being Awkward
Giving a presentation in front of your boss, coworkers, and clients can be an extremely nerve-wracking experience, even if you’re a public speaker who has…
Audience Engagement
8 Interesting Icebreaker Questions to Help You Break the Ice!
Whether you’re giving a presentation to students, colleagues or to potential investors, it can be difficult to draw people in and get them to listen to your…
Presentation Skills
7 Tips for formulating powerful statements
Spicy discussions. They’re fruitful for every organization. And an event is a great context to facilitate this: by means of a panel discussion or a debate.…
Audience Engagement
8 Tips for Perfect Presentation Game Questions
Games for presentations are the way to win over your audience. If so, however, the questions you present must be well drafted. An online poll or quiz game…
Presentation Skills
8 tips for your speaker cue cards
You’re about to present. Some of us like it. Some of us can’t sleep anymore. Speaker cue cards are there to give you support and trust throughout your…
Education & Learning
A new generation of elderly care
How many people in Holland suffer from dementia? What’s the name of the oldest person currently living? What will you do when you parents cannot live…
Meetings & Teams
Anonymous feedback helpful for these 3 meetings
In an era of transparent company cultures, anonymity isn’t always considered an asset. Still, it can facilitate trust and with it a starting point of a more…
Meetings & Teams
Benefits of Interactive Presentation Software
Interactive presentation software can be useful if you’re looking to bring your presentations to the next level. Your presentations become more engaging,…
Presentation Skills
Collecting valuable data from a group
Do you really know your audience? With Sendsteps, you can easily obtain insights into this, on an individual and on a group level!
Audience Engagement
Create an Online Poll with Sendsteps
An online poll in your presentation creates a dialogue between speaker andaudience. This provides feedback immediately. View the benefits here
Audience Engagement
Creating a word cloud with Sendsteps in a few steps
A word cloud is a dynamic image and a creative way to receive feedback from your audience. In addition, a word cloud is suitable for conveying a lot of…
Presentation Skills
Decision making with a group
Using the Sendsteps voting feature to get a reliable response from your group.
Meetings & Teams
How to run an engaging meeting from home during COVID-19
What’s the best way to engage with your team, class or co-workers while you are unable to share the room? Sendsteps is the answer to that!
Meetings & Teams
Fun office games for employees
Unleash fun and innovation in the workplace with engaging office games. Discover how playful activities can foster trust, boost morale, and ignite…
Presentation Skills
How can I add a GIF-animation in PowerPoint?
A GIF is the ideal way to spice up your boring monotonous PowerPoint. While videos are usually heavy files and photos are static pictures that do not…
Presentation Skills
How do you make your presentation interactive?
There are many ways to make your presentation interactive, without you are risking to lose the audience’s attention. Try to keep the audience focused!
Presentation Skills
How powerful questions inspire you to grow
We have selected the 5 most useful videos that can help you ask better and powerful questions for your presentation.
Meetings & Teams
How to built trust in the workplace
In business, the word ‘trust’ can easily be perceived as a hallow term. It can be difficult to grasp the real meaning of it. Trust might not be easy to…
Presentation Skills
How to End a Presentation
It’s the final slide of your presentation, and it’s time to wrap things up. Now that you’ve built up to this point, how will you end your presentation? Here…
Audience Engagement
How to engage an audience: organize an interactive debate!
There are many more methods to engage your audience then only the good old “Q&A” sessions. The Dutch Contactlens Congress [NCC] is a living proof of…
Presentation Skills
How to Give a Presentation Without Overstimulating Your Audience
There’s nothing worse than being bombarded with too much information at once. When you’re presenting, keeping your audience interested and engaged is more…
Presentation Skills
How to Keep an Audience Engaged During a Presentation
Did you ever think of your presentation as a first time date? Imagine – it’s really not that different. Upfront you are busy with what to wear, what to say…
Presentation Skills
How to make a presentation interactive.
How to be more interactive during your presentation? What is going to change, the moment you involve your audience?
Meetings & Teams
How to prevent a meeting/presentation to become monotonous
Think about it, when someone tells you a story you want to be taken along with it, you want to feel the emotion and hear the meaning behind every word. A…
Meetings & Teams
How to run an effective meeting
Imagine a meeting that you leave full of energy. Encounters with colleagues and talks that just greatly inspire you! Unfortunately, these kinds of meetings…
Meetings & Teams
How to tackle loneliness in the city?
It’s one of these subjects that isn’t always easy to talk about: loneliness. Yet, in many countries and many cities, it is a growing problem. Also in…
Audience Engagement
Ice-breakers for your presentation | 5 proven suggestions!
Haven’t we all been there? That moment when you sit down to prepare the first few lines of your presentation. The core of your story isn’t that difficult –…
Presentation Skills
Interaction moments with your audience
A powerful presentation is fueled by audience interaction moments. Many of us will agree. Yet most of us struggle with the actual implementation of these…
Meetings & Teams
Interactive presentation ideas
Just like you serve specific wine with a type of dish, you also need to carefully select a specific interactive method with your type of meeting. Get clear…
Audience Engagement
Interactive Quizzes to Make the Classroom More Fun
Quizzes are an excellent way to make your classroom more engaging and increase student engagement levels. Here are some reasons why you should consider…
Presentation Skills
Post messages
Let your audience send messages/ideas during your presentation. Sendsteps enables them to respond via website, Twitter & SMS.
Presentation Skills
Interactive workspaces
Interactive workspaces, what do they look like? And what does it take to realize them? Clients who once used Sendsteps during a one-off event experienced…
Presentation Skills
Little Known Ways to Imply Storytelling in Your Presentation
Storytelling has always been an effective way to grab your audience’s attention and convince them of your point of view. It’s also an important skill to…
Audience Engagement
Word cloud Generator vs Live Word Cloud
Word clouds are a great way to visualize sentiment, creatively display live poll responses, and turn an otherwise monotonous presentation into an…
Presentation Skills
Preparation makes introverts the best presenters
Do you feel that you are not confident enough to step onto the stage? Chances are you would be described as an introvert presenter.
Audience Engagement
Presentation Game Create in 5 Simple Steps
Presentation games and quiz games are an effective way to keep the attention of your audience or team during a meeting or presentation. Moreover,…
Company & News
Safe Room Amsterdam
11% of Amsterdam-based freelancers feel “seriously lonely”. Think of web designers, copywriters or musicians. Professionals who are passionate in what they…
Education & Learning
Teacher in front of a classroom
A teacher is trying to keep her students interested and engaged, while still teaching them the material they need to learn.
Meetings & Teams
Team building exercises for meetings: combining content and fun
When looking into team building exercises for meetings, often the most extreme exercises tend to come up. From egg-and-spoon races to blindfolded indoor…
Meetings & Teams
Team Building Problem Solving Activities
With an ongoing digitalization, the need for a workforce that easily adapts to a fast-changing world, becomes more eminent. On one hand many jobs will get…
Presentation Skills
10 Most Annoying Speaking Habits to Avoid During a Presentation
When speaking in front of an audience, it’s easy to fall into bad habits if you aren’t aware of them. Whether you’re giving a presentation or just casually…
Audience Engagement
The Best Free Kahoot Alternative
If you’re looking for the best free Kahoot alternative, you’ve come to the right place! Here we’ll cover what Kahoot is, and then go over a free Kahoot…
Presentation Skills
Interactive map of leadership styles
We believe that the most successful leaders are able to adapt their leadership styles to business situations and they can switch among leadership styles.
Meetings & Teams
Town hall meeting
Using the Sendsteps Q&A feature to share your message and get instant feedback
Public Speaking
Types of Audiences in Presentation and Public Speaking
Launching your message. Making sure it not only reaches many people their minds, but also their hearts. It is a marketer’s challenge to get a message across…
Presentation Skills
Upvoting Feature
To most of us presenting on itself is already a challenge. Some get pleasure out of it, but most people are happy when it is over. So why even involve the…
Presentation Skills
What are the Benefits of an Audience Response System?
While most presentation software allows you to use traditional slide notes, many businesses are opting to use an audience response system (ARS). An ARS…
Presentation Skills
Why A Joke Can Help Your Presentation
Although most people don’t think of it, one of the best ways to make your presentation more interactive and engaging is to add humor to your speech or…
Meetings & Teams
How to engage others during online meetings
The current COVID-19 situation has an impact on our daily life, and also our working life. For many around the globe, the office is no longer accessible.…