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Listen
Why it’s important to listen
The flipside of speaking is listening. This is when you think about your group asking you questions. Before we come to strategies to deal with The Dreaded Q&A, it’s important that you ask yourself a question.
Why do you want people to ask you questions?
Aren’t some of your worst presentation nightmares about answering a question badly? Isn’t encouraging questions just opening the floodgates to difficulty and embarrassment? Wouldn’t it be easier if you just muttered, ‘Any questions?’, let everyone sit in silence for a few seconds, and then you just sat down?
I know you might be saying, ‘Yes, it would ...
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