Introduction to Question & Answer Sessions

Series Summary

Allowing the audience to ask questions after your presentation is an excellent way to reestablish a message. In addition, because audience members can ask for an explanation, the group targeted is less likely to leave your presentation unclear of the ideas you discussed. Some believe the benefits of a question and answer session is vital and is actually another presentation by itself.

In this free instructional video series, let a communications and public speaking expert show you how to handle a question and answer session calmly and professionally. She explains the benefits Q & A sessions can provide and how important gestures and eye contact are crucial. This step-by-step video series will help you prepare to stay calm, cool and collected during the toughest part of any presentation.

Video Transcript

"Hey there, I am Tracy Goodwin and I'm the red sweater lady and today we're going to be talking about how to handle questions and I'm talking about in relation to oral presentations. There's lots of times when you do an oral presentation or a persuasive speech or maybe even an informative speech that you're going to have a question and answer period. Well, that's great, but you really need to be prepared for that. It can be very intense. It can be very stressful depending on your material and depending on what your presentation was about. So I want to talk to you today about some tips and ways to handle successfully, that question and answer process. You have thought about this, I know you have, especially if you've prepared to, you know you're going to have a question and answer time, so you've probably already put some thought into the kinds of questions that people are going to ask and the answers that you're going to give them. But let me at this point give you some lots of tips on dealing with that."