According to Kevin Werner of SAIC Venture Capital Corporation, "The best interchanges are when we can just sit across the table and converse. I don't especially care about a presenter's dress or accent. The biggest need is to be open and receptive to questions."[2]
In coaching executives and teams, a major challenge is getting them to even commit to preparing for Q&A as well as the formal presentations. Presenters will spend hours getting the right graphic layout and the precise language, yet ignore what is likely to be far more important: How to work with the audience in the interactive part. I've long included Q&A in training seminars, and most people come up short on what makes for good or poor responses.