Tag Archives: audience participation

Inspiring Speaker Friday: Sebastian Wernicke and Bobby McFerrin

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Richard Andrews

The TED 2012 Full Spectrum conference was held last week in Long Beach, California. It was a weeklong celebration of the art of public speaking and featured inspiring talks on everything from science to social injustice and from climate change … Continue reading →

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Question Period

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Richard Andrews

Yesterday we established that asking and answering questions is one of the best ways of engaging with your audience. When it comes to question and answer sessions, my advice – as usual – is practise makes perfect. There’s nothing worse than … Continue reading →

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Engaging With Your Audience

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Richard Andrews

We’ve already talked about how to make a good first impression on your audience and how to not distract your audience while you’re speaking. So what’s next when it comes to speaker-audience interactions? Audience engagement! Keeping an audience’s attention is … Continue reading →

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