"No more questions, thank you."
Applause
It is over now...no its not!
This wasn't probably your last presentation and here is why you should care about a thorough evaluation:
There is always room for improvement!
Here are some suggestions for what you can do after a presentation:
- collect immediate feedback from your audience after your presentation
- just ask them and don't be content with the answer "Yeah, it was good, I guess."
- try to find out what they liked and did not
- don't just ask your mom, if you know what I mean
- in a team - do a feedback session
- students may get an evaluation from their teacher
- ask for clarification and more feedback
- collect all your notes and files you created during the presentation creation process and put them in a folder or portfolio that you can review at anytime
- write a reflection on everything you did, observed and experienced
- what was good?
- what didn't work out at all
- share your presentation
- send your presentation to a mailing list and ask for comments
- share it on platforms such as slideshare.net/ or sliderocket.com
- did you by any chance tape or film your presentation?
- analyze your performance and write down good and bad things you did
Maybe you can think of other ways, to gather feedback. Please comment if you do.
So the bottom line for improvement is, that you have to be cruel in feedback and evaluation. I asked a teacher of mine for feedback once and she asked me if I wanted the kind or the cruel version. I went for cruel. She ripped my work apart. I felt awful. No, the important thing is not to sulk but to sit down and make the necessary changes suggested. After I redid my work, I felt great. I turned my previous work, about which I felt pretty good, into an awesome piece and I am still thankful for that cruel feedback.
Look at previous presentations you created. I like to look back to my high school years where I first encountered PowerPoint. It's mind-boggling. So, you learn with every presentation you make and you should apply your gained knowledge and skills to make your next presentation more effective and engaging.
It's a continuous process, really. Do you remember the first steps you should do when creating a presentation? Yes? Great! No? Go back to my previous posts on Groundrules, Preparation, Research, Design and Delivery to recap the most important principals to consider.
This posts completes my own presentation creation process. The steps are just guidelines for orientation. Every aspect of each step is worth comprising a single step in the process, but that would not make it easy to remember, I guess.
I hope, you liked this little series on this process and found some useful tips you can apply to your next presentation. In the next weeks I will go back to these posts and talk about single topics mentioned in more detail. Please share your opinion about this blog with me by commenting. Feel free to suggest any topic or finding you would like me to talk about.
Have a good week!
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