When presenting to an audience, how to you gauge the success of your speech? Can you look out over your audience and judge from their faces, or the amount of closed eyes and tilted heads? Or maybe from the level of applause, but then I have clapped hardest for people just as a relief that they were actually finished. Here are six simple questions that you can ask attendees to answer that will give you a clear defined appraisal of your presentation:

Can they repeat the main points?

Could they visualise the product/topic you spoke about?

Will they remember you and your topic by tomorrow?

Could they relate what you spoke about to their own lives?

Did they respect you and your topic?

Did they want to talk to you afterwards?

Using these as indicators, your presentation should be topical, easy to remember, focused, use live examples that your audience can relate to and end with a clear call to action.