Three good reasons to distribute your handout after the presentation
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In my last post on presentation handouts I suggested that it’s best to distribute your handout before your presentation. The comments to that post identified three situations when it makes sense to distribute your handout after the presentation. As not everyone wades through comments I’ve decided to highlight them in this post:
1. Surprise
Mike Slater
Personally I [...]
13 Best Practice Tips for Effective Presentation Handouts
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Your presentation handout is the lasting concrete manifestation of your presentation. It?s an important part of the total experience for the audience:
But most of us focus on preparing what happens during the presentation, not what happens afterwards. Here are the benefits of having handouts:
Benefits for the presenter
They allow you to cut down on the amount [...]
5 tips for overcoming stage fright
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And as the curtain rose on the first night, I had a flash of intense vertigo, like I was going to pass out and couldn?t find my center. It sent me into a cold-sweat panic.
This is a quote from Jason Alexander, most well-known for his role as George Costanza in Seinfeld, from a book [...]
How to stop worrying about forgetting what you want to say
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Do you have a fear of missing out something critical from your presentation? This concern can sabotage your presentation in three ways:
To alleviate your concern you put everything you want to say on your slides
You write a script and read from it.
You spend the whole presentation worrying instead of connecting with your audience.
There?s a simple [...]
How to stop waffling once and for all
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Waffling happens when your brain stops working but your mouth keeps going.
The solution to waffling is simple: When you have nothing ready to say, stop, look at your notes, work out what you to say, look up again and start talking.
Easy to say. Difficult to do. That?s because when you start waffling, rather than [...]
Presentation structure: Why it?s smarter to put your conclusion in your opening
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A long time ago I attended a presentation on ostrich farming. It was pleasantly interesting because I love animals but I didn?t really get the point ? after all I wasn?t planning on being an ostrich farmer. At the end of the presentation the presenter said ?And that?s why you should invest in ostrich [...]
