Handing Out a Summary the Smart Way
Handing out a summary is helpful in live presentation. You can even hand out an important part of the presentation to the audience before the session starts and to make that part distinctive. that you don’t need to hand out the exact materials of the presentation to the audience. Rather, it should only complement your presentation; your handout shouldn’t be the content they are going to see in the session, unless a part of your speech requires mental preparation.
If the audience has the content of your presentation at their disposal before you present anything, they will leave the session because they have a copy of it at hand. Therefore, the summary of a presentation must: Be complementary to the presentation. Create active communication with the audience and keep them engaged, active and involved. For example, ask them about some of the slides, or when the time is right, ask them some questions during the presentation which they can easily answer by referring to the handout.
Sometimes, the venue of presentation makes it hard to see the tables, or the table itself is complex. Therefore, you can hand out the table to the audience so they can easily read it. Therefore, a connection between the audience and the content on the handout is created. It’s not an easy job to make such connection. To make the presentation better, you need to frame the presentation in a way that it would raise questions in the audience’s mind and you can answer these questions at the end.
When are you supposed to give these small handouts to the audience? Sometimes, it must be in accordance with the time the same contents are being presented. For example, when a slide containing a diagram is displayed, the supplementary papers must be handed out. Sometimes, it’s better if you hand out the pamphlets at the beginning and notify everybody that the pamphlets will be used during the presentation at some point.
that the pamphlet you hand out to the audience should not raise a new question in the minds of audience but rather, it should resolve what is ambiguous for them.