{"id":5370,"date":"2017-02-23T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:24:38","slug":"presenter-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/presenter-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenter Tips: How To Simply Make Your Presentations More Facilitative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Research by the National Speakers\u2019 Association shows that becoming more facilitative <em>(i.e., more interactive or service-oriented)<\/em> is the single most important change a speaker or presenter can make. Following, you will find three powerful presenter tips to use before, during, and after presentations.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you have not compiled a personal handbook with presenter tips about your personal approach, do so now. Consider keeping prior handouts and slides, agendas, a master glossary,\u00a0and evaluation summaries. Continuously improve your <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/building-agendas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agendas<\/a> and capture detailed annotations for the agenda steps you frequently use in events, meetings, and presentations. Especially document complex challenges requiring brainstorming, decision-making, prioritization, and so on. Reflect on the speaking environment and organizational culture to determine when certain tools work best or fail. Your handbook ought to be dynamic, organized, and useful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The use of interaction, discussion, and structure enlivens participants\u2019 ideas and reactions. In the role of a speaker, embrace the following presenter tips to ensure your presentations shine!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>1. Before TIPs<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Take extra caution to precisely articulate your presentation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/meeting-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purpose, scope, and objectives<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Do not rely on a vague and dull\u00a0purpose\u00a0statement such as to \u201ceducate\u201d or \u201cinform\u201d. With instant, worldwide online access, there are far more effective ways to become informed and learn new material than to attend a live presentation. Presentations are normally intended to shape and guide behavior. WHICH behaviors and WHAT decisions need to be made that will affect or impact your audience?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stipulate the\u00a0scope\u00a0of your presentation to help manage time and keep your audience focused. What should be included and more importantly, NOT included? Scope represents the boundaries of your presentation and subsequent discussion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Consider your statement of presentation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/smart-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">objectives<\/a>\u00a0as a discrete package you could document and hand off to somebody. If I was unable to attend your presentation but you could hand me the benefits, what would they be?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Presenter Tips <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Before<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/slidehunter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presentations<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Provide a comprehensive\u00a0<a title=\"Meeting Participation Tips (Part 1 of 3\u2014The Beginning)\" href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/workshop-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-read<\/a>\u00a0that stresses the questions your presentation addresses. Add some structure including selective <a title=\"Our Most Popular Meeting and Workshop Ground Rules for Optimal Group Behavior\" href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/ground-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ground rules<\/a> to get more done, faster. Consider an attractive <a href=\"http:\/\/slidehunter.com\">presentation template<\/a>. Specific participant behavioral\u00a0guidelines you may want to encourage (listed alphabetically):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Caution participants about voice inflections that may indicate disdain or an otherwise counterproductive attitude<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Let each person respond without interruption<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Share in accepting post-meeting follow-up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/raci-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assignments<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stay on topic and <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/building-agendas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agenda<\/a>, begin and end on time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/meeting-conflicts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conflict<\/a> but separate issues from personalities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. During TIPs<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Remember that the business audience for most topics (i.e., those more complicated than individual, private decisions) should consider three different <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/guard-against-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perspectives<\/a>, Each type of business participant needs their own scorecard or method of measuring the input received from your presentation. Most organizations operate with a solution sponsor, a financial decision-maker (accountable for final approval), and an operator (primary user of the product, system, or solution):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_1105\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\" https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/presenter-tips\/ \u200e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1105\" class=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/presenter-tips\/ wp-image-1105 size-full\" title=\"Three-tips-present\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/three-tips-present.png\" alt=\"Three Facilitative Presenter Tips To Make Your Presentations More Effective\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/three-tips-present.png 600w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/three-tips-present-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Presenter Tips to Be More Effective: Organizational Decision-Making<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The solution\u00a0<u>sponsor<\/u> is held responsible for the identification of solutions and getting the results sought by executive sponsors. Sponsors may decide alone or with a project or product team. They frequently approve the solution concept, request funding, and make a commitment to the results and benefits that will be accrued. In a hospital setting, for example, the solution sponsors may be the directors of finance and\/ or radiology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Executive\u00a0<u>sponsor(s}<\/u> represent the person or group of individuals who authorize solutions. They really do not want to attend more <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/facilitate-speakers-conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presentations<\/a> or view more data; they simply want results. For example, in a hospital setting, the sponsor might be the vice president of HIS (health information systems).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Individuals who will\u00a0<u>operate<\/u>\u00a0the new solution (e.g., a new MRI system) and likely have a strong voice in the brand and model selected. In a medical setting, the operator may include radiologists or radiology technicians. They could be responsible for moving patients in and out of the MRI as quickly as possible while transferring patient images and information to the appropriate diagnostician.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Presenter Tips <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">During<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Presentations<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Especially when time-constrained, encourage audience participants to interact with you as if their message delivered results to someone\u2019s voicemail. Alternatively, encourage responses that would fit on a single 4X6 notecard. Have participants use actual notecards for scripting their &#8220;voicemail,&#8221; stressing the main points. Encourage them to get to the question or main point by the second sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>3. After TIPs<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When questions are asked after your presentation, be more facilitative by repeating the questions and comments loud enough so that everyone can hear and respond as appropriate. Use an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/back-up-meeting-output\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">easel<\/a> or whiteboard to reflect the input of your participants so that everyone can absorb the comments provided by other participants.\u00a0Visual reflection frequently outperforms auditory reflection for impact and memory retention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Consider our <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/meeting-wrap-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian of Change<\/a> tool to build a consensual understanding of what the presentation means to everyone. Presumably, you want all the meeting participants to depart with a message that sounds like they were in the same presentation together. The Guardian of Change\u00a0tool\u00a0helps generate comparable rhetoric and harmonious actions. You certainly don&#8217;t want participants in the hallway to sound and behave as if they were in\u00a0<i>different<\/i>\u00a0meetings together.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Presenter Tips <\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">After<\/span> Presentations<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Consider some variant of a\u00a0Plus-Delta or a more robust anecdotal\u00a0evaluation template that assesses the effectiveness of you and the meeting. A tool that moderates between the two is shown below. It provides numerical feedback but relies on three questions and optional, anecdotal feedback. The questions shown are solid but also illustrative. Do not hesitate to substitute questions that provide you more value, yet rely on a similar format. With this template, you can print two per sheet, reducing the visual burden on your participants by keeping it small.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11553\" style=\"width: 737px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-12-at-12.14.16-PM.png\" data-dt-img-description=\"Moderate Approach to Performance Assessment\" data-large_image_width=\"727\" data-large_image_height=\"334\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11553\" class=\"wp-image-11553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-12-at-12.14.16-PM.png\" alt=\"Moderate Approach\" width=\"727\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-12-at-12.14.16-PM.png 727w, https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-12-at-12.14.16-PM-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Moderately Robust Tool for Performance Assessment<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>______<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Don\u2019t ruin your career by hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/bad-meetings\/\">bad meetings<\/a>. Sign up for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/public-facilitation-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshop<\/a> or send this to someone who should. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260106090117\/https:\/\/mgrush.com\/\">MGR<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">USH<\/span><\/a><\/em> workshops focus on meeting design and practice. Each person practices tools, methods, and activities daily during the week. Therefore, while some call this immersion, we call it the road to building high-value facilitation skills.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by the National Speakers\u2019 Association shows that becoming more facilitative (i.e., more interactive or service-oriented) is the single most important change a speaker or presenter can make. Following, you will find three powerful presenter tips to use before, during, and after presentations. 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