How to make your presentation sticks, you’ll need a great ending question that makes people thinking about it for days. And how to make this kind of question? Well, there are 4 steps. Here they are.

Even orangutan thinks. Source: Wikimedia

1. Think hardly about your presentation’s content

First, you must take a time to analyze your presentation’s content. You must look carefully into the content to see more information. Maybe you’re not realizing that you’ve indirectly told people about something. So, look deeper into your own content. You can even take a note and write all information the content has.

Remember that you don’t need to think about numerical data inside the content. Just mention all simple information the content has; all information which people could just plainly understand it in mere seconds.

Just a note, if you only found few things, it’s okay. In some cases, there are only few information, but each of them are explained in a very detailed way.

2. Look for “multiple choice”-able info from your presentation

After looking into the presentation’s content, you can then simply decide which are able to be crafted into a multiple choice question. Make sure these chosen things should be related with each other. The most used question is “which one will you choose?” question. And the choices are logically related, but contradictory. For example, the first choice is “an expensive electric-powered car with reduced cost of fuel”, and the second one is “common car with increasing cost of fuel”; because the content contains these two things.

3. Craft great question that forces people to choose

A great ending question is the one that shows something happens in everyday life. It encourages people to choose something for the future, not the past. So don’t ask about something in the past that uses “if” or other form of conditional sentence. Great question also makes people feel important, and it also makes people’s decision seems very influential to their own life.

Remember that one question is enough--more than that is not recommended because it will be too confusing for people to answer. Just leave one very thoughtful and made-to-stick question. And please remember that people won’t answer it right at your presentation; they will brought that question inside their mind until they got home, then they will start thinking about the answer.

4. Give cause(s) and effect(s) for each choice

To make the question a lot clearer, you must add causes(s) and effect(s) of each choice. Why people must choose A, and what A does to people. Give 1-3 cause(s) and effect(s) to make people understand and to not bore them at the same time.

Well, that’s 4 steps to create a great ending question. If you have a question, advice, or even disagreement, you can discuss it with me at the comment. I would gladly like to discuss something.

Thanks for reading!