Here’s a Frequently Asked Question about being interrupted during a presentation with something you’ve already addressed.
Mary Clare answers in this video blog entry.
QUESTION:
What should you do when you get asked questions about things you already talked about?
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On our Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/TurpinCommunication) we recently asked our fans to “name something that a presenter does (or doesn’t do) that distracts you from hearing/understanding the speaker’s message.”
Most of the responses had something to do with presenters reading their slides. While I agree that it’s distracting when someone lifelessly reads a slide full of [...]
QUESTION: When presenting, I feel more comfortable when I hold a pen. Is that OK?
ANSWER: This is a common question we recieve in our Presentation Skills Workshops. Class participants often remark that holding on to something somehow calms them down and makes them feel less nervous. In this video blog entry, Mary Clare Healy, provides some [...]
QUESTION: I say “um” a lot. What can I do to eliminate them from my speech?
Mary Clare answers this frequently asked question on video: Click the video to watch her answer.
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Last week, someone asked this question: I know you said in class that we should think of all presentations as persuasive presentations. And that makes sense to me most of the time. But what do you do when you really are just presenting data? I’m not trying to get my audience to do anything. They [...]
Question:
I know you said in class that we should think of all presentations as persuasive presentations. And that makes sense to me most of the time. But what do you do when you really are just presenting data? I’m not trying to get my audience to do anything. They just need to be informed.
Answer:
We [...]
Question:
I have been working on this for a long time and getting nowhere. Every sentence I say sounds like a question because my pitch goes up on the last few words. I’m 32 years old, and it’s time for me to stop sounding like a teenage girl. It doesn’t help that I’m also a really [...]