Confessions of a horrified audience

Audience bill of rights How to avoid horror stories in presentations

Hi! I am your audience

I chose to attend your presentation despite all my pending work…

I hope you have spent enough time to prepare your presentation

Do not make me wait till there is enough crowd…

Start and finish your presentation on time

I like surprise climax only in detective novels…

In your presentation, I expect an agenda and the session duration

I am not a kid to sit and listen to your lecture…

Involve me

We are equally intelligent and responsible…

So, do not talk down … or beg

I am not a psychic to read your mind…

Tell me what I should do and why

I know you are not a walking encyclopedia…

So, when you don’t know something… don’t hide behind jargon $””&** is nothing but ##%%

You may be a whiz with Excel …

But, tell me what should I be looking at in your graphs

I do not get excited by statistics…

… till you tell me your source and the reasoning

I do not always carry my telescope…

So, make the fonts large enough for me to read

Your voice may sound irresistible when you talk in a husky whisper… Pss pss pss

But, I can not hear you clearly from the last row

I can completely understand your excitement in the subject…

But, stop making those distracting gestures

I know you love your slides…

But, when you talk to your slides and not me, I feel offended

I have not installed a recording machine inside my head yet…

So, summarize periodically

You may feel comfortable pushing all my questions towards the end… ?????

But, I cannot follow your logic when I am stuck Clarify my doubts instantly

I appreciate your big bang ending…

But, what are the next steps?

Finally, when I clap at the end…

I should leave with the satisfaction of getting enough value for my time

Will you fulfill my wishes?

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