Question & Answer Sessions: When No Questions are Asked

Video Transcript

"Alright, now let's talk about what if you have no one ask any questions. Oh my gosh, you've prepared this great question and answer period, you've though about all the questions that people might ask and how you'll answer them and the time comes and you say ok, who's got a question? And no. Nobody has a question. You don't want to just end your question and answer period. What you want to do is possibly try to plant some questions. What I mean by that is, and of course it would depend on what your subject matter was, but how does anybody feel about the globalization of XYZ? Oh, I have a question. By throwing out a little more information or asking your own questions to the audience, will help them come up with questions. Now, you propose a question and somebody asks a question. The way you need to handle that is as if they came up with the whole idea. Oh, that's an excellent question sir. Ok, don't take credit for having to plant any of the seeds of the questioning. And then go ahead and answer the question. And what generally will happen is if one person asks a question, then a few more will follow. If that doesn't, then you keep planting questions. Ok, great, now what about does anybody have any thoughts on global warming? Yeah, ok? That's what you need to do if no one is participating."