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Know your audience

Know your audience

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Know your audience

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- So the final thing that you need to prepare is the audience. What type of audience are they? What type of people? What level of knowledge are they going to have? They probably going to be a mixture so that's a problem but its worth just thinking, you know, they're all going to be qualified doctors or they're going to be scientists who know a lot about your talk already or are they just going to be the public. So what type of audience? And then what size of audience? Now the size of audience in some ways doesn't matter because you're still going to do the same talk and I try to talk to huge audiences as if they're my friends and I'm just chatting to a small number. So in a way it doesn't matter. I think the one thing that does matter with size of audience is what sort of visual aid are you going to have. So with a small group, I like flip charts, personally. I like to be able to just write on the flip chart as I go along and I can evolve them, I can ask for suggestions, I can write…

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