How to Be a Great Leader During a Whiteboard Presentation

Make the most out of planning or collaboration meetings with a little advance planning and smart use of a whiteboard.

Rex Hammock, in his series on effective whiteboard use, offers the following basic tips on how to lead a meeting to get the best outcome.

“A meeting’s success is determined before it begins,” he says. So make sure these basic steps have been taken:

• Determine a specific goal or outcome and share those goals with participants in advance.
• Make sure all participants get a meeting agenda at least 24 hours in advance.
• Let participants know what will be expected of them during the meeting.
• Use 3×5 cards to prepare meeting content, and to plan use of the whiteboard for displaying the content.
• Practice drawing any images if they are to be part of the whiteboard presentation.
• Organize the whiteboard into blocks that can be easily photographed with a smartphone.

Read more of Hammock’s advice on how to be a good leader during a whiteboard presentation.

Dan Griffin

Dan Griffin is general manager of EVERWhite, a U.S. manufacturer and seller of whiteboards and tack boards used for teaching, coaching, planning, collaboration and tracking. Along with his expertise in the use of whiteboards, Dan excels in leadership, new product development, business operations, continuous improvement and product marketing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a focus on marketing, from Temple University.