If you are giving a presentation in English, then you definitely want people to remember

what you say at the end. And this means your closing must be powerful!
You’ve worked hard on your presentation. You searched for information online. You couldn’t sleep at night. You felt

nervous about making mistakes. You spent hours preparing. You reviewed the grammar and vocabulary. You worried

about someone asking a question. You practiced and practiced and practiced.

And now it’s the last two minutes. This is the last opportunity for your audience to hear your key points. It is the last

chance you have to help your audience remember your comments.

A closing in a presentation should be short and clear. It should summarize your key points. And, most importantly, it

should be powerful.

In today’s lesson, you’re going to learn about 3 ways to make your closing more powerful. Plus you’ll learn useful key

expressions you can use in your presentation.

3 Strategies to Close Your Presentation Powerfully
Use these 3 strategies in your conclusion to:
 recapture your audience’s attention
 get your audience to focus and remember your key points
 help your audience connect with you and your topic
 end your presentation powerfully

One: Include a Call to Action (CTA)

Is there something you want your audience to do or think after your presentation. Do you want them to take action?

Tell your audience exactly what you want them to do with a Call to Action.

Here’s my example:

“After you finish today’s lesson, please take 2 minutes to leave a comment about your experience with

presentations. You can share your thoughts or ask questions in the comments section at the bottom of this lesson –

it’s the perfect place to join a discussion on this topic.”

A couple useful expressions to help you introduce your CTA is:

 To close, I’d like to ask you to do this one thing…
 And finally, before you leave the conference today, please take two minutes to…

Two: End with a Powerful/Inspirational Quote

Is there one thing you really want your audience to remember? Or is there a specific feeling you want your audience

to have after your presentation?

Using a powerful quote can help you do that. You could introduce a great quote or interesting statistic with:
 I’d like to finish with this powerful/interesting/wonderful/inspiring/ quote from …
 And finally, let’s finish up today’s discussion with this surprising/useful/shocking/hopeful statistic …
 Here are some example quotes that might help people be prepared to take action or to think differently.

But remember! Always match the quote or statistic to your topic:

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” – Alexander Graham

Bell

Three: Add a Surprising Fact or Statistic

Is there something you’d love for your audience to think about after your presentation? Is there a statistic or fact that

will help someone remember your key points?

A surprising fact can also help re-engage your audience, it will snap their attention back to you.

For example:

Did you know that the human brain’s capacity is limitless – that’s great new right? BUT … did you also know that a

person is likely to remember only 25% of a presentation after 24 hours?

Uh oh. That is why it’s SO important to have a powerful ending! Remember: the key is to find a statistic or fact that

connects directly to your topic.

Useful Langauge to Close Your Presentation

Summarize Your Key Points & Close Your Presentation
 That brings us to the end of the presentation. I’d like to summarize by saying …
 That concludes my presentation. However, I’d like to quickly summarize the main points or takeaways.
 And on that final note, that concludes my presentation.
 To quickly recap, I’d like you to remember these key points …
 To summarize …
 In conclusion …
 I’d like to bring this presentation to a close with …
 I’d like to close this talk with …
 So, this concludes the focus of discussion today. To end, I’d like to highlight …
 This concludes [name/title of the section] so let’s move on to the final comments.

Thank Your Audience

 I sincerely appreciate your attention today/this evening/this morning.
 And that brings us to the end. I’d like to thank you for your time and attention today.
 Thank you so much for your interest and attention.
 At this time, I’d like to have my colleague speak so I’ll finish up by saying thank you for your attention.
 I can see that our time is just about up so to finish I’d like to say thank you.
 I sincerely appreciate that I’ve had this opportunity to present to you.
 If there is one thing I would like you to remember from today’s presentation it’s …

 
 Take Questions
 If anyone has any questions, I’d be happy to open up the discussion.
 If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask now and I’ll do my best to answer.
 Would anyone like to ask any questions?
 I would now be interested to hear from you with your thoughts or questions.
 Now let’s move on to some Q&A. (Q&A = Questions and Answers)

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 Closing your presentations more

strongly
BY SHANA CARROLL · FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The introduction and the closing are the

most important parts of a presentation.  This is simply because people often
remember the initial impression you made on them as well as the last thing
they heard. In psychology, this is called the Serial Position Effect.
The Serial Position Effect states that people will remember the last thing they
heard more clearly than any of the other information presented. Knowing this,
you should focus on making sure that the last thing your audience hears
meets your objective, and theirs, for the presentation.