Reviewing Presentations

After quite some time, I got an opportunity to discuss with a group of passed out students raring to plunge into professional life. The experience was great, because I dealt with this kind of group at inappropriate time, inappropriate occasion and for a marathon period.

Every time I was done with my presentation to the audience, I usually dumped the presentation on to my hard drive only to review the presentation at a time when the presentation had to be prepared again. While I was preparing my presentation this time, I could recall only the glaring mistakes happened last time. I found that the learning's of previous presentations are misplaced. I realize it is in best interest to review the presentation soon after the presentation is over and devote sufficient time to incorporate learning’s.

Some learning’s:
1. Review all your slides/ sessions after the presentation is over, so that the actual learning’s are incorporated into the slides.
2. Prepare the case study prints/handout well in advance and do not depend on the facilitators.
3. Keep an example/ history/ recent developments on a concept or idea ready before you drop it with the audience.
4. Single Word or quote or photos have larger affect than the paragraph or text.
5. Explore and update yourself on all the words that appear on the slide; It includes example, context, relevance, history etc.
6. Keep a single page handout of the entire topic that might arise during the presentation discussion. It is important in situations, when the presentation is made to new audience at unresponsive occasion and at inappropriate time.