5 tips for becoming a better presenter, public speaker, preacher
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 9:20PM Follow the link at the end of this post for some great advice from one of the great public speakers in South Africa - @MikeStopforth
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In my experience the larger the crowd the more challenging it is to engage them.
I often speak to groups of 50-80 people. No problems, a bit of audience participation, some great narrative (stories!), humour, fast pace, powerpoint slides with NO text (just pictures) and it works. But when the group is much larger (I recently spoke at a conference with 900 people) it is a little more challenging...
Having an understanding of how the brain works also helps. I've figured out that certain types of visual and auditory stimuli are far more effective than others... I confess that I use some of that to get my message across. If you want to know my 'secrets' drop me a line @digitaldion! I'm happy to share!
Here's Mike's article: 5 tips for become a better presenter (or public speaker).
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Hi Dion. One of our challenges is cross-cultural presentations / training. “Know your audience” is very important but it is sometimes difficult to bring the message within the culture / “world view” so that it will be more accepted. We also apply the following principle: apply everything we know, but go in with the attitude to learn as much as possible. In some training sessions I will intentionally through in cultural questions for this purpose.