THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Beauty

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ” - Confucius

TOPIC OF THE DAY

How Attention Works For Audiences

First of all, getting and keeping an audience's attention is probably the most important thing that a presenter must be able to do. There are other things that are important, but if the audience members are daydreaming or not listening, they just aren't going to hear you. In addition, bored audiences are noisier, and are more distracting to the presenter since they tend to talk amongst themselves, shuffle paper, get up and leave.


You don't have to be a psychologist to understand how attention works, since the principles can be summarized quite easily. Once you know the basic principles, you can modify your presenting behaviour to ENHANCE interest and attention. We will get to the actual attention getting techniques later. Right now we need to understand the principles.

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