Unless something has happened to prevent it, I have audio recorded every presentation I have given since 2005.
That date coincides with starting to more aggressively search out presentation opportunities and build my repertoire of content. The overall objective was to gain as much speaking experience as possible before leaving corporate life.
7 Reasons to Record Every Presentation
You may ask why you should record every presentation you give.
Here seven reasons why you should record presentations:
- The recording will allow you to hear your presentation in a relatively similar fashion to how the audience members heard it. This gives you a much stronger sense of the experience for the audience.
- Being able to review the audience reactions to the content provides a better sense of what worked and didn’t work throughout the presentation.
- You can revisit specific content where audience members sought clarification or more information, providing opportunities to deepen or refine your content in future presentations.
- You can confirm audience questions and your answers so you are able to more easily develop them into online content.
- You can edit the audio into small segments to share through a podcast.
- You will be able to detect the bad speech patterns you use (i.e., ummms, slang, mispronouncing words) so you can begin to work on eliminating them.
- Before the next time you give the same presentation, you can listen to previous versions to refresh yourself on the content and all the things you say that aren't on the slides.
That’s really just a start to the list.
Another benefit for me is that the recordings capture unplanned stories I drop into presentations based on the interaction with the audience. Being able to listen to the presentations later helps turn those stories into more permanent fixtures in the content.
If you’ve been recording your presentations, what other advantages do you find? And if you haven’t been recording your presentations, what else will it take to get you to start doing it? - Mike Brown
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