A SMART presentation needs a good ending.  While it is hard to start a presentation, it is doubly hard to end it and ensure that the audience understood the presentation.  How to end what you have begun can be effectively achieved through these one-liner tips.

Convey a positive tone.  Your audience must be left with something positive in their mind.  Erase all pessimism and ensure that they agree with what you have presented.

Leave an imprint that you have done something important.  Make your audience believe that what you have delivered is something of great importance for them.  Leave with the thought that you have imparted something which they can use in the future.

Offer a challenge.  Before you finally end the presentation, challenge the audience.  Give them something to reflect on and make them think of what is actually in store for them.

Summarize your points.  A summarized presentation will be useful for your audience.  They will better remember the salient points of the presentation if you can use mnemonics for easier reference.

Encourage the audience to act.  Once you’re done, urge them to put into action what has been presented to them.  Knowledge imparted must not left sleeping in the brain.  It is more gainful if what has been learned can be used and put into action.

As the Chinese proverb says, “ I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand

By: Vilma C. Aranas | Teacher III | Puting Buhangin Elementary School