Tense audience

Fellow speaker,

There are four tensions that affect the audience's ability to get your message:

• Presenter vs. listener (e.g., audience member dislikes presenter or finds presenter arrogant)
• Listener vs. listener (e.g., audience member dislikes other audience member who is talking at same time as presenter)
• Listener vs. workbook (e.g., audience member doesn't think the workbook will be valuable and so doesn't want to do the workbook exercises)
• Room environment

When you present, present so you reduce these four tensions.

Tensely,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
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