With Impact How to Handle Hostile Questions Preparing a message or presentation can be stressful enough without having to worry about hostile or obnoxious questioners afterward. This keeps the heckler from dominating the discussion. 8 Great Speaking Blunders 1. Nothing is as powerful as your personal testimony or an experience that you have had which relates to what you are preaching, teaching or presenting. NOT repeating your message enough.
Repetition is crucial to retention.
Half an hour after a presentation the average listener has already forgotten 40 percent of what was said. The more you repeat and illustrate your message, the more retention you'll get. Then you tell 'em. Then you tell 'em what you told 'em. Burying your point.