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Tips – Technology Tech can help you knock it out of the park
Tip1 Use software that makes interacting with your audience, collecting and fielding questions, a cinch. • Instead of a mic, invest in tools that allow everyone to submit a question via their mobile devices. • Ask them questions too – take polls
Tip 2 Democratize the discussion
Deploy questions before, during, and after your talk to create a feedback system that will deliver maximum insight and exchange for you and your audience. You can: • Ask your audience to submit their questions ahead of time. • Allow your audience to vote on the submitted questions. • Rewrite two or three of the submitted questions as a multiple-choice poll; Tip 3 Stay in control • Planning can help you collect and sift through questions ahead of time. You not only give yourself a chance to prep, you can also weed out hostile and irrelevant questions ahead of time. • Or conduct real-time polling, putting you in control of the room. Tip 4 Leverage anonymity • It can enable people to either ask questions anonymously. There’s no risk or judgment from peers or bosses, this can result in great questions.
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