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Gaining and keeping an audience’s attention

Let’s recap!

So far, we have mentioned in our previous posts:

Studying your type of audience

What you are presenting (main topic(s))

Techniques on how you will be presenting

The right things to do with your audience

But what about the things to avoid and not to do?

Don’t do it!

[What not to do at disney (on getting your audience’s attention)]. Retrieved June 30, 2019 https://archmarketing.org/disney-getting-audience-attention/

Here we will touch a few additional key pointers on what we should dodge when dealing with your audience.

1.     Don’t start the presentation right away. All presentations need a strong beginning and ending. You want to ease your audience into your main topic(s).

2.     Avoid making your presentation longer than it needs to be. Keep it simple, or you’ll lose your audience’s attention half way through.

3.     Never get sidetracked with side stories. Stick to what you need to tell them and what’s important to your main cause/reason.

4.     Don’t use unfamiliar jargons. Most of your audience won’t understand most of your jargons you use. If you plan to do so, explain what each jargon means for their better understanding and can follow along comfortably.

5.     Avoid reading from the slides directly. Your audience came to see your presentation not to see you read along with them. Keep structured notes (q-cards) with you so you can follow along with your slides. Also give eye contact!!

Practice!

Using these pointers from all our three posts are basics to gaining and keeping your audience’s attention.

Learn to practice and implement all pointers in to good use before presenting. In doing so, you’ll gain proper results with your audience.

Keep in mind: 

your audience came to enjoy the experience too. Have fun with them! If they’re having fun so will you. And be confident in yourself!

We hope this helps you on your progress to gaining and keeping your audiences’ attention.

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Gaining and keeping an audience’s attention

Q. What comes to your mind when you hear about giving presentation before being in front of your audience?

Here are some points for gaining and keeping audience’s attention:

Relevance of the content- this means that the content should be precise. Also, it must not waste the audience’s time.

Clear language- there should not be any use of technical words

 Balance between visual and written – this makes the presentation attractive

Short videos to captivate audience attention.

Ask thought-provoking questions- this helps to keep the audience awake throughout the presentation.

Using special powerful quotes in between of speech that rejuvenate audience’s attention.

Eye contact-that means during your presentation proper eye contact must be maintained and this will make the audience feel that you are directly conversing with them.

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details perfect.”- Jack Dorsey

Giving examples related to the topic can help your audience to understand in a better way. If possible, one must learn the art of having shocking headlines or statistics related to the matter that arise their interest to know about further part. So, this is also very useful technique to captivate audience attention.

[7 Ways to make your next presentation your best yet]. retreived june 30,2019 https://www.salesforce.com/ca/blog/2016/08/make-next-presentation-best-yet.html

While having presentation they must try to get personnel with their audience so that they take more interest in what you are saying. If possible, try to crack some jokes in between of your speech so that the audience does not get bored.

Lastly, try to ask questions related to your topic in between to have their feedback of their understanding level and if you get to know that audience is losing interest then mould the presentation in such a way that would refresh audience by using techniques.

If you keep in mind the points provided above, you will lead to success.

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Smith, R. (2016, August 18). 7 Ways to make your next presentation your best yet. Retrieved from Sales force: https://www.salesforce.com/ca/blog/2016/08/make-next-presentation-best-yet.html

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Gaining and keeping an audience’s attention

Welcome to the business talk!

For those of you who struggle in presenting in front of an audience here are some awesome tips to keep and gain an audience’s attention.

[Why do we need to prepare for a presentation?]. Retrieved June 30, 2019 https://www.activia.co.uk/sales/presentation-skills/resources/why-do-we-need-to-prepare-for-a-presentation

The content of our blog is:

1.       Introduction to getting started with a presentation

2.       How to engage with an audience by using proper techniques

3.       Points to be avoided for attracting audience attention.

This blog will help you with meetings, speeches or any other activities on your daily basis related to your business, at the same time I will give some basic ideas to help you on the right track. As we know that best presenters know how to attract their audience’s attention. Because they are skilled in these types of tasks.

  Before presenting your topic, you should keep in your mind some of the key factors like:

Who is your audience?

What you are presenting to them?

Techniques on how you will be presenting to them.

 Initially, the presenter has to find about their target audience and then according to them they should apply some gainful tips to have their attention.

 Furthermore, the presenter should pre-structure the value points in their topic that they are going to present.

 Moreover, the main idea behind every presentation is to give the exact information to their audience in a clear way. And this thing can only be achieved by keeping the audience interest, presence, response to the information given to them. 

Presenting a topic is also kind of art activity and it requires a lot of skills and creativity to make a success. Presentation can be related to any kind of business field like: Promoting and Advertising business. It takes a lot of practice to be a best presenter.

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Andrews, A. (2018, April 18). Why do we need to prepare for a presentation? Retrieved from Activia: • https://www.activia.co.uk/sales/presentation-skills/resources/why-do-we-need-to-prepare-for-a-presentation

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