Last night the subject of presentation came up among my friends, one common difficulty is losing anchor point during the presentation.
For example, someone in the audience throws you a tough question or you perceive a lack of interest among the audience. It probably depends on individual presenters as we have different sensitivities towards “disturbance”. One suggestion made which I found useful is to “contain the damage” and move on. Use the technique of “containment”, i.e., isolate the incident mentally from your mind and emotion, to make your bounce back to the flow of the presentation much more easily and seamlessly.