Three Tips For Using Handouts During Your Presentation

Giving your audience visual aids like a handout or workbook increases the impact of your presentation. It also gives them reference material they can use to reinforce their newly learned skills.

Three tips on how to use an audience handout:

1. Encourage listeners to take notes on the handout. Taking notes helps your audience remember more of your information.
2. Be a good “tour guide.” Direct your audience to the correct page number so they can keep up with you.  Better yet, tell them exactly where to look on the page i.e. “Look at the middle of page 5, under the heading “Speaker’s Tips.”
3. If you have multiple handouts, print them on different colored paper. Then you can easily direct participants to look at the “Yellow colored handout” or the “Orange colored pages.”

Use these tips to help your audience make the best use of your handouts.

© 2008 Reflective Keynotes Inc., Toronto, Canada

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