Best Practices: Achieving Success by Knowing Your Audience

How do you show leadership with your presentations?

Identify who your audience is and what their needs are before you start preparing your presentation: What do you need to address in your presentation in order to meet the audience's expectations? Your audience may be, for example,

• your clients
• your team
• your direct management
• your senior management
• your service providers
• the auditors

• how many presentations are going to be given along with yours? Try to not exhaust your audience.
• when in the day are you presenting? If it is at the end of day or before lunch, be prepared to cut your presentation short. Prepare your verbal presentation to summarize slides that are not presented.
• how much time is your presentation allotted for? That will indicate how much detail is expected. Always prepare a high level presentation, speak to the audience with the details in mind, have extra slides ready just in case. When you practice for your presentation, make sure you are fluent with where the slides are and their sequence so you can change directions quickly at presentation time. When presenters are not prepared for this, they feel letdown after their hard work. And worse, the message that they want to get across to the audience is somehow lost in the shuffle. If the message is lost, the presentation is not successful.

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Dahlia Benaroya has had over 20 years of experience in business and technology fields. She is currently the founder and president of Dahlia Web Designs LLC. Her company provides innovative marketing and business solutions for the Too Busy!. She offers clients cost-effective solutions with her consultation, web design and organizational management strategies and services. Previously, Dahlia was a director at a major international company, with responsibility over multi-million dollar initiatives. Her current special project is to help motivate children to write by offering inexpensive online publishing opportunities for children through her website www.KidsLoveToWrite.com

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