So, you are probably asking yourself, why is it so common for people to hold all questions until the end of a presentation? Two reasons:

1. If someone is addressing a large audience of 100 or even thousands of people, it is too unwieldy to take questions throughout. I assume that the vast majority of the time, you are speaking to small audiences, so this does not apply to you.
2. People hold questions until the end because they are scared. This is a reason, but it’s not a good reason.

If you take questions throughout your presentation, you will score lots of points with your audience and seem better than most presenters. You will be making some favorable deposits in the credit department. This means that if you do mess up in part of your speech, or are less than riveting in other parts, you will have some goodwill stored up. The result is that even if you have some gaps and stumbles in parts of your presentation, the strengths of being engaging will outweigh those, and your overall presentation performance will be judged as pretty good.

This article was taken from my new book “How to Give a Pretty Good Presentation” You can order a copy from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Books-A-Million or from your local bookstore.