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Retaining Control

Assuming that you have confidence in the material that you are presenting and have
practiced it sufficiently then nervousness should not be too much of a problem.

Reiterating
your position

Finding
common Answering with
ground politeness

Respond to the

unexpected by:

Offering a
Agreeing when counter-
you’ll answer argument

One of the best ways to ensure you remain in control is to do everything you can to ei-
ther preempt or prepare for questions that undermine your position or message, or
that you simply cannot answer. An unexpected question has been known stop a
previously convincing speaker dead in their tracks.

You can never be 100 percent certain this won’t happen, but through careful planning
and rehearsing you can attempt to minimize the possibility.

If an unexpected disruption occurs you have three options open to you:

Acknowledge properly Respond
Simply
reiterate the question. now, but that directly to
your position saying that you will do the challenge
so in the
there is
as firmly and insufficient question and with some
sort of
confidently
as possible time to answer counter-
answer it session argument

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