Responding to questions effectivelyStudy guide<span><span>For a printer-friendly PDF version of this guide, click here</span>The aim of this guide is to give you some practical strategies for handling and responding to questions during or at the end of an oral presentation.Other Useful Guides: Planning an effective presentation.</span>Introduction
Many presenters fear the question and answer session at the end of their presentation because they feel that they are losing control of their input (speaking seems so much safer). However, it is important to remember that the questions are a vital part of the presentation for the whole audience as they allow for clarification and consolidation of learning. The presenter can enhance the effectiveness of the question and answer session by treating it as a formal part of the presentation that requires as much careful planning and control as the delivery of the core material.
Plan to take control
The background work that you undertook whilst planning your presentation is the key to handling questions effectively. If you have defined a precise focus for your presentation and have explored this thoroughly in your background research and planning, you are more likely to be able to respond to questions with precise answers. If you have been unfocused in your preparatory work, this will come across in the way you answer questions.
When planning your presentation, you will need to:
<span>identify when questions will be invited in your talk and plan to inform your audience of this;plan to leave plenty of time for questions so that the audience doesn’t feel rushed (this might involve having to reduce the content of your talk);<span>prepare prompts for questions that are open and straightforward: “That’s the end of my presentation. I would now like to stop and take questions from the audience”.</span></span>
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