6 users commented on " Public Speaking Myths: You Must Immediately Capture Your Audience’s Attention "

"Public Speaking Myths: You Must Immediately Capture Your Audience’s Attention" was posted by James and received 6 users commented
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Sarah Gershman UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 said,         
April 20 2009

Great post. I will add that the audience needs to check you out before they will listen to what you say. For this reason, I suggest not looking at the audience while you are being introduced, so that they will “check you out” before you get up to speak and thus be ready to hear what you have to say right off that bat.
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Sarah Gershman

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Martin Ng AUSTRALIA Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 said,         
April 23 2009

I don’t thin the ‘rule’ is true at all – if you continue and ramp up your ‘interest’ factor, you have a captive audience, and you can certainly win them over later.

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Peter Bowler UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9 said,         
April 24 2009

I agree that you have a lot more time than 10 seconds. But you don’t have forever to seize your audience’s attention. During the first few minutes your audience will want to know what you stand for and how they can benefit by engaging with you. That interest can last a few minutes. After then it’s harder.
Peter

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Public Speaking Success: Does Volume Matter? | Overnight Sensation - Public Speaking, Communication and Personal Development UNITED STATES WordPress 2.6.1 said,         
June 17 2009

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November 29 2009

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March 10 2010

[...] elevator pitch about my business and the “expert” told me that my talk was great but I lost my audience because I didn’t grab their attention within the first six seconds. I said that you have a lot more than six seconds to grab the attention and the [...]



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