{"id":264,"date":"2009-02-02T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2009-02-02T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T12:46:48","slug":"dont-know-the-answer-to-a-question-when-youre-doing-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/dont-know-the-answer-to-a-question-when-youre-doing-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t know the answer to a question when you&#8217;re doing public speaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;m most often asked to help with in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellingpeople.co.uk\">presentation skills training<\/a> is how to deal with questions.  There are lots of useful things you can do &#8211; but some very interesting research reported <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/6066.html\">here<\/a> suggests a number of interesting things.<\/p>\n<p>For example, people apparently think more highly of an interviewee who answers a question well, even if it&#8217;s not the question that was asked, compared to someone who tries to answer the &#8216;right&#8217; question but does so badly&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons to be learned for all of us improvising there!  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;m most often asked to help with in our presentation skills training is how to deal with questions. There are lots of useful things you can do &#8211; but some very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}