The Venue

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Researching Your Speaking Venue Can Be As Important As Creating Your Presentation!

A frequently overlooked yet important aspect of presentation and speech making is to take full account of the venue.

Presentations can take place in many different venues. For example which of the following types of place will you be next presenting at: Living room in someone's home, Small office, Meeting room, Classroom, Board room, Town hall, Parking lot, Conference hall, Auditorium, Theater, and Stadium.

Each of the venues in the list above will conjure up an image in your mind. When you hear that you will be giving a presentation in a Board Room or Conference Hall, you can imagine the environment and layout.

But stop here...

Just imaging the speaking environment has led many a good speaker into fooling themselves to believe that they know the rough layout of the space they will be presenting in, only then to arrive and be thrown off their balance by finding that no two meeting rooms are ever set out the same!

Do some secondary research

To avoid unwanted surprises, try to visit the venue before the presentation day itself or ideally at least before your speech.

Clearly it will sometimes be impossible to have personally checked the speaking venue; perhaps you are flying in specially to make the presentation having never been to that part of the world before!

But in these instances seek some assistance from the organizers or anyone who has actually been there.

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