Top Speaker Presentation Tips to Engage Your Audience
Every event speaker, emcee or host is after the same thing: an engaged audience.
No one wants a boring meeting, and while standing ovations are nice, the main objective of the speaker is to deliver a message in a way that emotionally connects with the audience. To improve audience engagement at your event, the message (and its delivery) must resonate with your people.
At your events, do attendees actively participate or is their gaze glued to their devices?Speaker success can be gauged by surveying the audience’s mentality and level of participation. After all, it’s about their experience. When speakers read word-for-weighty-word off of slides or miss crucial cues, it’s no wonder attention spans have more ebb than flow.
Help your speakers avoid the disconnect between the event presentation’s main theme and supporting concepts. Offer the following presentation tips to speakers as compelling ways for your audience to envision the big picture: