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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 16 2014 @ 12:17 pm CEST

This should be intuitive for any speaker or teacher, I think! It's not to the taste of everyone though, as some people have expectations that a presenter will stand behind a podium and 'deliver' a lecture. I was recently marked down by a judging panel at a meeting where a number of us presented with a prize at stake, because I'd stepped away from the podium and engaged with the audience (not excessively, just asking them whether they were familiar with the concept I was presenting on, etc). They gave the prize to a presenter who stood behind the podium, stared at the computer screen, and read her (text filled) slides for 12 minutes. I got some great feedback from audience members who weren't on the judging panel though, several of them pointed out that I was the only presenter who'd actually made eye contact with my audience!

Bring your audience closer to you
Authored by: Dirk on Friday, May 16 2014 @ 14:35 pm CEST

Wow, that sounds terrible. I can only assume that the panel was under the mistaken impression that content matters more than anything else in a presentation.

I was in a similar situation once after I gave a presentation for my employer: Positive feedback from the audience, complaints from company officials for not sticking to "the rules". It took a lot of time, effort and repetition before they at least let me do things my way (and they still do it their way ...).

Keep doing it your way. Some people will eventually understand while others will simply refuse to change.

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Authored by: RNKLN on Wednesday, June 18 2014 @ 22:33 pm CEST

This sounds like a big mistake from the jury, I always enjoy it when a presenter 'has a conversation' with the audience and consider my own presentations successful when i've also accomplished this (which maybe doesn't happen every time, but at least nobody can accuse me of hiding behind the furniture).

Keep doing the way you do things, is my recommendation.

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