Preparing the audience for a visual

Now, let’s look at the position of …

Now, I’ll show you the …

For … the situation is very different.

Let’s move on now and look at …

The next slide shows …

If we now turn to the …

This chart compares …and …

The (upper) part of the slide gives information about …

You can see here the …

I’d like to draw your attention to …

Focusing the audience’s attention

You can see the …

As you can see …

What is interesting/important is …

I’d like to draw your attention to …

Notice/Observe the …It is important/interesting to notice that…

ENDING A PRESENTATION

Summarizing

To sum up…

In brief … / In short, ….

I’d like to sum up now ……

I’ll briefly summarise the main issues.

Let me summarise briefly what I’ve said.

If I can just sum up the main points.

At this stage I’d /like to run through /to go over…

Let’s recap, shall we?

EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION EXPONENTS - 3

Concluding

In conclusion, … / To conclude, …

As you can see, there are some very good reasons …

I’d like to leave you with the following thought/idea.

Recommending

My/our suggestion/proposal/recommendation would be/is to …

We recommend/I’d like to suggest/I propose setting up….

Closing formalities

I’d be happy to answer any questions.

If you have any questions, I’d be pleased to answer them.

I would welcome any comments/suggestions.Thank you for your attention.

HANDLING QUESTIONS

Clarifying questions

So, what you are asking is …

If I understand the question correctly, you would like to know …

When you say … do you mean…?

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear. Which slide was it?

Sorry, could you repeat that?

I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

Avoiding giving an answer

Perhaps we could deal with that later.

Can we talk about that another time?

I’m afraid that’s not my field. I don’t have the figures with me.

I’m sure Mr X could answer that question.

That’s interesting, but I’d prefer not to answer that today.

I’m afraid I’m not the right person to answer that.

Could we leave that till later?

I’m not sure this is the right place/time to discuss this particular question.

Checking the questioner is satisfied

May we go on?

Does that answer your question?

Is that clear?

Useful responses

That's a very interesting question.

I'm glad you've asked that question.

A good question.

I'm sorry but I don't have that information to hand.

Can I get back to you about that?

I'm afraid I can't answer that.

I'm not in a position to comment on that.

As I said earlier, …

I think I answered that when I said …

I did mention that.

I don't see the connection.

I'm sorry, I don’t follow you.

I think that is a very different issue.

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