I have a lot of important things to share with you, but I can’t get started until I have everybody’s attention!”
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Time-honored advice for organizing any oral presentation:
Tell them what you’re going to say.
Say it.
Tell them what you said.
Many workshops take place in restaurants or hotels where the meeting rooms are set up with round tables, each seating about eight people. This can be conducive to a good learning climate, since the audience is already seated in circles. The disadvantage is that if the tables are full, two or three people have to twist around in their chairs to see you. So if you’re planning on this seating arrangement, allow for five people at each table, not eight, so that everyone has an equal vantage point.
