Before and After Checklist
Answer these questions BEFORE giving your presentation
- Did you ask the right questions (makeup of audience, location of presentation, time limit etc.) after you accepted the invitation to speak?
- Did you research your presentation topic?
- Is the topic one that you care about?
Did you construct a presentation outline?- Is your presentation structured simply and logically?
- Do you begin your presentation with an attention getter?
- Do you get to the point quickly?
- Do you establish your authority in the first minute?
- Do you use language that is best suited to your audience – and yourself? Do you avoid jargon?
- Did you check for words you may have trouble with?
- Do you involve the audience?
- Do you use transitions between thoughts?
- Did you eliminate negative passages?
- Do your words relate to your visuals (if you use them)?
- Do you use humour to establish rapport with the audience? Is it tasteful? Does it help you make a point?
- If you use anecdotes, do you incorporate them into the natural flow of the presentation?
- Do you reinforce your central idea throughout the presentation?
- Do you use quotations without overusing them?
- Is the amount of detail in your talk balanced?
- Can you identify the facts in your presentation that you should and should not include?
- Do you review your comments at the end of presentation, thereby reinforcing them?
- Did you estimate the length of your talk?
- Do you leave time for a question and answer session?
- Are you prepared for a question and answer session?
- Are you rehearsed? Have you helped yourself look as though you will be ad-libbing?
Answer these questions AFTER giving your presentation
- Did you warm up before starting?
- Did you take measures before and during your presentation to help yourself relax?
- Did you know when to quit?
- Did you finish on time?
- Did you rephrase questions that were asked of you?
- Did you accomplish you main objective?
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