April 8, 2009
I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons:
1. You don’t have to grab the audience’s attention at the start. You have their attention at the start. The challenge is to keep it. [...]
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May 27, 2008
Lisa Braithwaite from Speak Schmeak has commented on my post about the attention-getting myth. I started responding to her comment, but my response got so long I decided it was worth a blogpost in its own right.
The issue is how to best help nervous speakers at the start of a presentation . Lisa suggested that:
Using [...]
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