Quiz

Test your presentation skills! Take this quick quiz to receive a free mini-assessment of how you’re performing in presentations.

1. In your opinion, what is the role of Powerpoint in your presentations?
a. To present, verbatim and in bullet form, what it is I’m going to say. My audience loves it when I read to them!
b. To present an animated light and sound show second only to a Kiss concert.
c. To present as much data, graphs, and diagrams as will physically fit on one slide - font size be darned!
 
2. Where do you look when you’re delivering a presentation?
a. At my shoes.
b. At the Powerpoint slides.
c. At the door.
 
3. What do you do with your hands while presenting?
a. Wave them wildly like a high school cheerleader.
b. Stuff them in my pockets - isn’t that what pockets are for?
c. Grip them tightly in front of my thighs - fig leaf anyone?
 
4. How fast do you speak?
a. I can talk for 20 minutes without taking a breath - it's mind boggling really.
b. I bring new definition to the phrase, "slow and deliberate."
c. I don't know. My audience can never hear what I'm saying.
 
5. How do you engage your audience?
a. Engage my audience???
b. I do a great fog horn impression when they start falling asleep.
c. I order them to attend and tell them to listen.
 
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