John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership

Idea 87: How best to deliver your presentation on the day

Overall you should ensure that your presentation has the following characteristics:

• The beginning introduces you properly, captures the audience and gives the background, objectives and outline of your talk.
• The middle is kept moving along (indicating whether questions are to be asked as you go or at the end), with eye contact over the whole audience, at a reasonable pace, with varying voice and obvious enjoyment on your part.
• The end is signalled clearly and then goes off with a memorized flourish.
• Questions are audible to all (or repeated if not), answered with conciseness, stimulated by you asking some questions, dealt with courteously and with the lights on.
• The conclusion is a strong ...