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“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.” – Anonymous
The Sorry State of the Art Why the Average Presentation Earns a Below-Average Grade The word “presentation” can mean different things to different people. When we first began designing our survey, we consulted with colleagues who asked questions such as, “Are you including an impromptu five-minute talk at a staff meeting?” “Are speeches presentations?” “What about day-long workshops?” We wanted to keep the definition fairly broad in order to help a wide range of presenters, so we used the first few questions in our survey to let respondents set the parameters themselves. For better or worse, here are the specifications they provided for the average public interest presentation: The Average Presentation Defined length audience size use of visuals use of handouts interaction between speaker & audience interaction between audience members 10–60 minutes (with most running approx. 20 minutes) 10–50 people 62% of presentations use visuals of some sort, with PowerPoint being the visual application of choice. 60% of presenters provide handouts to their audience. 24% of presentations feature interaction between speaker and audience beyond traditional Q&A (e.g., speaker circulates among audience during breakouts). 8% of presenters ask audience members to interact with each other in the course of a presentation. Of particular note here are the exceptionally low percentages reported for the last two categories. As you will see in the results that follow, audience members want to interact with the people in the room. They appreciate opportunities to draw upon the expertise of presenters (beyond what the typical question-and-answer session offers), but they see such opportunities as rare. They also consider their fellow audience members to be potential resources, but opportunities to interact with them are viewed as even fewer and farther between. Even though these first few questions were intended to elicit a neutral picture of the average presentation, the responses were already pointing up areas of deficiency. And that, as they say, was just for starters. pg. 9
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Chapter 5: The Small Stuff (It’s
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The Small Stuff (It’s Worth Sweat
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How You Are Introduced In The Toast
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Evaluations Nothing improves perfor
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Bad Presentations: Our Tipping Poin
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Multimedia Learning Richard E. Maye
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Checklists to Go Questions for Audi
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Section 1: Organizational Informati
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Kristen Grimm, President, Spitfire
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About the author Andy Goodman is a
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