Presentation Skills: Sharing Content

Presentation Skills: Sharing Content


Purpose

This activity is useful as an add-on to lectures, talks or presentations to make them more interactive and memorable. An interactive pause used during or after a lecture stops the current flow of content and allows the audience to do something about what they have just learned. This helps them to go over the content quickly and also participate before the speaker moves  on to more complex topics. This exercise is an example of such an interactive pause delivered at the end of a lecture or a talk.

Objective

Audience to share the content they learned about or share their questions with each other

Setup

  • Divide the participant into pairs
  • Ask the pairs to share a piece of information with each other. Examples are:
    • Share one question that you have about what you have been taught so far
    • State three things you now know that you didn’t know before
    • State one thing that you will do based on what you have heard in this talk or presentation
  • Optional: You can ask the groups to share their best exchanges with the rest of the class. 

Timing

Explaining the Exercise: 2 minutes.

Activity: 10 minutes

Group Feedback: 2 minutes.

Discussion

You can ask the audience to share their questions if they are still unsure about certain topics.

 

 


Comments

Ziaur Rahman

By Ziaur Rahman @ Monday, March 14, 2011 5:22 PM



Thanks for sharing these ideas. It will definitely aid me in designing our trainings at IITM, dhaka


Leave a comment

All comments are moderated before being published.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.



Reading next

Team Building Exercise: An Ideal Team
Presentation Skills: Systematic Note Taking

Training Resources for You

Course Design Strategy

Course Design Strategy

Available as paperback and ebook

Training Resources

Free Training Resources

Download a free comprehensive training package including training guidelines, soft skills training activities, assessment forms and useful training resources that you can use to enhance your courses.

Body Language Guide

Our Comprehensive Guide to Body Language

Train the Trainer Guides

Train the Trainer Resources

Get Insights - Read Guides and Books - Attend Courses

Training Materials

Get downloadable training materials on: Management Training, Personal Development, Interpersonal Development, Human Resources, and Sales & Marketing

Browse Full Product Catalogue About Training Materials