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Why You Should Steer Your Presentation With More Questions

by Nina Sunday © 2023 · All rights reserved

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Leading-presentation-with-QuestionDo you ask lots of questions when you present? Don’t simply tell, remember to ask instead.

Why ask questions?

Asking a question makes your audience seek out the answer in their minds. Your audience becomes more engaged and actively listening.

How to start

Spice up your presentation with six common questions: who, what, where, when, why and how, e.g.

‘Where can we find evidence for this?’
‘How can you make a difference?’

  1. Open with a question

Capture attention with a dramatic question, e.g.
‘Do you know what’s really scary about . . .?’
Have you ever wondered why…?

    2. Segue questions

Questions are segues, devices to move a speaker smoothly to the next theme, e.g.
‘Now that I’ve . . . [explained CRM] . . .

the question remains, [what frequency is best for staying in touch with clients?]’

    3.  Don’t assume

Replace ‘I’m sure you . . .’, with, ‘Did you . . . ?‘
or ‘You all know . . .‘ with ‘Who is familiar with . . . ?‘

   4. Rhetorical questions

A rhetorical question is asked for effect; an answer is not expected.
You might ask, ‘But why is that so?’

   5. Thought-provoking questions

Use a startling question as a dramatic conclusion to get people thinking and talking, e.g.
‘If you could send three items and a message into deep space, to be found by aliens, what would you send?’

It sends your listener on a mental journey seeking the answer.

Action

For each statement in your presentation, ask yourself, ‘Can I restate this as a question?’

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