The leave-behind Never, ever hand out copies of your slides, and certainly not before your presentation. That is the kiss of death. By definition, since slides are “speaker support” material, they are there in support of the speaker—that is, you. Therefore, slides should be completely incapable of standing by themselves, and are useless to give to your audience where they will simply be guaranteed to be a distraction during your talk. The flip side of this is that if the slides can stand by themselves, why the heck are you up there in front of them? Just hand out the slides and sit down!
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