17 Ways to Engage Your Audience
Even the strongest presentation can miss the mark if the audience isnā€™t engaged.
Distractions creep in, attention drifts, and your message gets lost. With the right strategies, you can keep listeners interested, energized, and connected to your message.
Have you experienced it?
You have crafted what you believe is the perfect presentation. You have developed your key points and takeaways. When your presentation is over, you will have delivered on all of your objectives!
But...as you present your information, you realize the audience is not responding the way you envisioned.
They're starting to look at their phones. They're having side conversations. Oh No! You see someone dozing in the back of the room!
What do you do?
In the preparation stage of your presentation, you need to plan how you will keep the audience entertained and interested in what you have to say. Keeping an audience involved and vested does not simply happen. It takes effort and know-how. You need a few techniques to implement along the way.
