Follow-Up the Presentation

In preparing for and delivering your presentation, you probably didn t do it all by yourself. Most good-to-excellent presentations are team efforts. Members of your team might include students or colleagues that constructively critiqued your draft materials, graphics experts in your organization, on-site audio-video personnel, your host or moderator, and your boss —who supported your participation in the first place. Therefore, as may be appropriate, thank them and perhaps share some of what you learned with them or others. 

As you strive to become a better speaker, you are unlikely to experience dramatic breakthroughs. Continuous improvement is the more realistic road to success. And this requires the self-discipline to act on information you receive. Getting better is not rocket science in that most of us can all do simple things to greatly improve our presentation effectiveness. But, and this is a big but, we need to know what needs 

Recall the first Define the Purpose and Profile the Audience section in this discussion of preparing the presentation. You may have connected with one or a few audience members who can advance that purpose. Pursue that opportunity by following up. What you do or don t do, now that the presentation is over, may determine the success or failure of your speaking effort. 

You have invested considerable time and energy in preparing and delivering your successful presentation. How can you earn an even bigger return on that investment  

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In Sect. 11.4, we examined hydrolytic attack at sp3 C-atoms rendered more electrophilic by the presence of one or more halogen substituents. In a logical follow-up, the present section presents the hydrolysis of Mannich bases [78], L e., compounds that contain the X-CH2-N moiety, where an sp3 C-atom is made more electrophilic by the presence of two flanking heteroatoms, one of which is an N-atom. 

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