Powerful presenting #6

Handling Q+A like a pro.

Preparing for common questions:

• First find your topic

• Research using various tools or ai in order to create a list of questions likely to be asked.

• Due to the success of AI you can now upload a project and get it to come up with a massive list of questions likely to be asked.

Remember that preparing for questions is fine but its your job as the presenter to educate our audience which means if they're asking loads of these common questions, You have failed.

Addressing Challenging Queries

The only real way i can think to deal with challenging queries is to know what your talking about. If you really cant answer its usually best to ask why they asked the question (ill give an example here in a second) this not only buys you additional time to think it also helps you understand their logic which may additionally help you answer the question.

Example

Question:

"Reuben what would you say the hardest thing about entrepreneurship is"

How id respond:

"Hey great question im glad your interested, is entrepreneurship something your interested in or even already doing?"

These takes focus off me allowing me to think of my actual answer but also helps me understand my audience better, this then helps with relatability etc.

Say they answer with something like:

"yeah im super into entrepreneurship im thinking about starting something myself"

id say:

"again super interesting id love to get talking to you once we wrap up. What do you think the hardest thing is going to be? and then ill break down the challenges if ive faced them and share a bit about my experiences"

The bits in bold are important, these help you answer based on what they want to hear, dont get me wrong im all for honesty but you dont know that person well enough to get personal so theres no point being too confrontational. Ive also found that the and share a bit about my experience is an important line because it makes it seem as though theyre being heard first and your making their concern the priority.