PODCAST SCRIPT - PRESENTATION QUESTIONS

Being ready and prepared for audience questions is key to your role as a speaker.

Audience questions give you another opportunity to re-make your main points. To re-make your proposition. To re-make your arguments.

Preparing is easy. First of all: write down ten question that you reckon will be asked of you. Then write down their answers. Don’t be too detailed. Answering questions is not an opportunity for you to digress or meander off-topic. It’s another chance to hit the main points. Remove any confusion. And then re-state the point.

Once you have your first ten questions, think of a further ten questions. Do the same thing. Write them down and then prepare some answers.

Become familiar with the twenty questions and answers that you have now prepared. Don’t try to learn them. You want familiarity only for answering questions.

It’s likely that your list of twenty questions will cover over 90% of the questions that an audience will ask. But be alert to the needs of certain audiences.

Consider industry or regional influences. Be alert to the news. Business news or trade news that might influence the questions you are asked.

Taking questions is a great way to round off your presentation. Your answers will reinforce all your main points and help your audience to remember. Now, what to wear for the presentation?