Engaging Presentations

How may you make a presentation engaging to an audience?

Making a presentation engaging to an audience involves making it entertaining and when possible having personal tie-ins. Making a presentation entertaining through humor, visual aids, or thematic elements will give the audience an opportunity to not only learn information from the presentation but also be entertained. For many presentations the information is necessary but not exciting. This can cause the audience to tune out and lose interest in the presentation. Making the presentation entertaining will engage the audience in the fun and they will learn about the topic in the process. Making the presentation personal will also contribute to the audience becoming engaged in the information because it has a direct impact or reference to them. This comes back to knowing the audience, what their background is, what they want to get from the presentation, and how best to draw them in.