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Interacting with your audience

Interacting with your audience

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Interacting with your audience

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- Something that most speakers don't do, but good speakers do do, is to be interactive with the audience. I think it's really important to be interactive with the audience. And, what I mean by that is ask the occasional question, just say, has anybody had this problem or can anybody give me an example or, you know, put your hand up if you've experienced this. And, the reason why this is so important is that it keeps them interested, it keeps them paying attention. And, if I ask a question, the audience have to answer it, at least in their heads even if they don't say it out loud. So if you say, has anybody had this problem, everybody's thinking, yes, I suppose I have. So, very important to ask the audience questions every now and then, keeps them interested, it also allows you to gauge whether you're going at the right speed and the right level. Because, if they answer the question easily, you know you can go perhaps a bit faster. If they all look baffled, you know you have to go a…

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