From the course: Master Confident Presentations
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Ask the audience
- Suggestion number six to improve your confidence and overcome nerves is I think probably my favorite one, which is to ask the audience questions during your talk. Now this takes a little bit of practice, but believe me, it's brilliant once you get used to it. Ask them questions during your talk. If you just do a talk and they're all just sitting there silently, it's horrible. Are they listening? Are they bored? Do they agree with it? Do they understand it? I don't know. So I like to ask questions, you know; have you been to Australia? What did you think? You know, has anybody stroked a koala? What do you think a think a koala feels like? Do you think it's soft or not? 'Cause by the way, they're not that soft. They're like a bit of a old carpet. You could ask them, what do you think's softer, a koala or a kangaroo, 'cause actually kangaroos are much softer, but who'd of thought? So any questions you like. Now, I just make up questions as I go along, like I just did then, but you…
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