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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. It requires discipline and effort to simply sit and listen passively to someone speak for any length of time.
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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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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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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Why is most public speaking – especially in the business world – so awful? 0160; And of course, because public speaking is a self-conscious activity, speakers naturally focus on themselves. 0160; Often from the best of intentions, speakers try to tell the audience everything they know on the subject (whatever it is).
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Aided by some great comments, suggestions and questions from the audience, we discussed some of the important rules to follow if you want to develop a paid professional speaking career. You need a few others things after that, the most important of which is a DVD that shows you speaking in front of an audience for roughly 20 minutes.
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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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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, 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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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Follow the link to share your reasons, questions and speaking challenges. 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. How do we balance this?
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