Three tips or pitfalls for group presentations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I blogged about Group (and hopefully team) presentations. As some infomercials say - but there’s more. The Buckley School has an article on December 7, 2021 titled Three Tips for Better Group Presentations. Those are to:

 

Collaborate and coordinate in advance

Minimize the handoff [as shown above via a statue]

Pay attention when you’re not speaking

 

The Harvard Business Review has a second article by Allison Shapira on November 22, 2021 titled 3 Group Presentation Pitfalls – and How to Avoid Them. She says that three common missteps are:

 

Each slide looks like it was designed by a different person.

Presenters talk over one another.

Forgetting that you are “on.”

 

And three best practices are to:

 

Strategize in advance.

Practice as a group.

Deliver with confidence and authenticity.

 

The statue of passing a baton in a relay race (in Leipzig) was adapted from this image at Wikimedia Commons.

 

Group (and hopefully team) presentations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When they are done well and flow smoothly (as shown above), group presentations may not attract much thought. But when done poorly they can stand out like a sore thumb, with different fonts and graphic formats, etc. Careful planning is needed.

 

At the Six Minutes blog on November 3, 2009 there is an article (a post) by Charles Stanton titled How to deliver group presentations: the unified team approach. He says you need three ingredients for a great group presentation: clarity (of purpose, of roles, of message), control (of introductions, of transitions, of time and space), and commitment (to a schedule, to rehearsing, and to answering your audience’s questions).

 

The November 2015 issue of Toastmaster magazine has a second article by Christine Clapp titled Multiple Speakers, One Message. And at DeFinis Communications on June 17, 2020 there is a third article titled Working with co-presenters: how to organize a team presentation. At Training Industry on August 5, 2021 there is a  fourth article by Janine Kurnoff and Lee Lazarus titled Team Presentations: Who does what? which discusses planning why, what, and how.