March 6, 2010

Train your audience

Fellow speaker,

If you want your audience to respond to what you say, make sure you make it clear what you want the audience to do.  So if you want the audience to repeat your words, make it clear with gestures and demonstration that you want your audience to repeat your words.  In the speech "One of Those Days" World Champion Speaker Ed Tate repeats the words "one of those days" many times in his speech.  After after he has repeated it a few times, he gestures to the audience while he says it.  The audience then knows that they are expected to say "one of those days" along with him.  Later Ed stops saying it and the audience members say it by themselves when he gestures to them.

Training,

Tim