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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Your audience are adults. If their behavior is not distracting or annoying other people in the audience it’s up to them whether they pay attention or not, and how they pay attention. Open your presentation and start to establish rapport with your audience, and then say: “I notice many of you are using your phones and laptops.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Keeping audience attention is more important and more difficult than grabbing audience attention. reader emailed me: “What can I do to keep the audience’s attention through the whole of my presentation. Talk about something your audience is interested in. But do his audience care about the internal organisational changes?
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Last week I wrote about the challenge of the third era of presenting: the era of the audience. Kristin Arnold has written a provocative and intensely practical book Boring to Bravo on how to meet that challenge by encouraging audience participation. have my audiences look at each other and do stuff! Tags: Audience Boring.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping&# that she usually leads in the slideology workshops. The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
So the critical step to avoid making hecklers out of people in your audience is to listen. It will probably feel far too long for you, and you may even see some people in the audience getting restless, but this is the most effective preventative method to stop them continuing to heckle. Tags: Audience Respond. Affect. Request.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
What should you know about your audience? think speakers have five opportunities, at minimum, to find out what they need to know about an audience. always take the time to ask the organizers of any conference, session or meeting at which I'm speaking what I should know about the audience, especially in reference to my topic.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
My clients tell me they want to show what they know, and they anticipate the technical experts in the audience will criticize them for leaving out details. Even an audience of experts appreciates a clear, compelling presentation. What kinds of presentations are you making to audiences of technical and non-technical experts?
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
I just trained a group of nearly 100 scientists in speaker skills and message development for public audiences, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. We spent a lot of time talking about the need to start with your audience's needs, and the limited attention spans of modern audiences. The best technique?
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Do you ever feel like an audience member is attacking you when they ask challenging questions during your presentation? Hopefully, your audience doesn't actually try to discredit you or prove you wrong, as a client recently mentioned to me, but sometimes a particular question can provoke a feeling of anger or defensiveness.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
When I misspelled my final word, I was a little shocked; the audience roared with applause. What I heard in that applause was an audience who was glad to see me eliminated! Somewhere along the way, it was explained to me that I got so much applause because the audience was acknowledging my achievement. felt fabulous.
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