Effectively gaining your audience’s trust is imperative in any presentation setting. Building that sense of reliability can be fairly tricky but there are a few lessons we can takeaway from one of the greatest holiday movies and a certain little boy named Ralphie. If you aren’t familiar with Jean Shepard’s, A...
Keeping Your Audience in Mind : The 4 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer who first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson” – John Henrik Clarke If you ask any author what questions they ask themselves before drafting up their next bestseller, chances are they’ll tell you the first and most foremost...
How to Incorporate the Audience into Your Presentation
Whether it’s a dry, sedating lecture from our college days, a training seminar that seems to make time move backwards, or a local politician detailing every bit of a new mundane city ordinance, we’re all painfully familiar with just how stunningly boring some presentations can be. The fatal flaw many...
