How can I keep the engagement and focus high during a presentation?

How can I keep the engagement and focus high during a presentation?

Here are a few tips I use to help participants stay focused during presentations and to keep them engaged:

  • Ask participants to close their laptops (on-site meetings)

  • Ask participants to put their cameras on (remote meetings)

  • Have a change every 5 minutes at least: It can be a change of speaker, a change of type of content (video, GIF, text, image), a new type of interaction (speaking, reflection break, a breakout in subgroups, questions. etc.) or a change of tone (serious, humour).

Q&A: Presentations and Service Design

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Efficient presentations

  • What are tools to create presentations faster?
  • When should I create a presentation and when not?
  • What are good storylines I can use to structure a presentation?
  • How to create quickly summaries for presentations?
  • What's one of the best slide structure and design?

Interactive presentations

  • How can I use a presentation as a prototype?
  • How can I embed a whiteboard in my presentation?
  • How can I embed a timer in my presentation?

Presentations and public speaking

  • How can I keep the engagement and focus high during a presentation?
  • How can you write and prepare good presenter notes for your presentations?
  • ▶️ How can I make presenting less painful?

Long presentations

  • How to create presentations that work for multiple stakeholders?
  • How can I fix a presentation that goes all over the place?
  • What are good ways to finish a presentation?