Public Speaking Can Be Fun

Free Public speaking skills tips, techniques, and advice by presentation skills expert Jacki Rose, Top Performance. Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PresentwithPEP

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Three Ways to Keep Your Audience Engaged

This may be a very short answer (blog posting) but less is more and these three tips can be extremely effective in keeping your audience engaged in your presentation.

1 - Change it up every 8-10 minutes (i.e. tell a story, ask a question, do something different than straight lecture)
2 - Add pauses (let your info sink in, add emphasis, etc.)
3 - Get your audience involved even if it’s saying “by a show of hands, who has…”
 
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