When you invite questions at the end of your presentation you run a substantial risk that one question derails the point of your whole presentation--and then you can't recover your own momentum. Fred Dent shifted the Q&A to the middle and was able to create a positive closing that left the audience feeling good.
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December 05, 2008
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