Do you feel that your audience is bored during your presentations, I'm going to
share with you some tried-and-true audience engagement strategies, that you
can use to keep your audience engaged from start to finish, and if you stay
tuned to the end of this video, I'm going to share with you my top 10 productivity
hacks, that you can use to even be better at what you do, hi if you're new here
welcome, my name is Adriana Girdler, I'm a Productivity specialist, a
professional speaker, and a TEDx presente,r with all my experience on
stage I have mastered audience engagemen,t and I would like to share
with you these tips so you can be an engaging presenter too, raise your hand if,
ask a series of raise your hand if questions, so depending on where you are
in your keynote, sometimes I'm asking stuff and they say, have you ever
experienced this, raise your hand, it just allows for people to be engaged,
particularly when you have extremely large groups, there's no way you're gonna
have more intimate interaction, so sometimes they're raising
your hand if, is a great way to ensure that your audience is engaged and
participating, get loud, now this is an interesting one because I've been a
participant of this, and I've experienced it, and I've done it myself, so I think
that's a little bit of a fine line as to when you use the get loud technique, so,
if you have a really important point that you want to stress within your
presentation, and you want them to also remember it, then I highly recommend the
get loud, okay everyone repeat after me, continuous improvement, continuous
improvement, right, so whatever it is to tie it in, but I've also had people as a
participant say, roar like a tiger, and I just found it didn't connect with me, so
be really careful with this, because sometimes it can turn your audience off,
if you're making a point to stress something that is really something you
want them to remember, then yes, if it's just a roar to make noise I'm gonna lean
you away from that, so play this one by ear, where you ever a participant at a
keynote, and someone asks you to roar like a tiger, and it maybe didn't sit
with you, I'm curious to know if that's ever happened, and what your impression
is, please let me know in the comments below,
sit down if, now this one is very similar to raise your hand,
however I'm going to recommend that you really think about when you use this,
again, usually in key notes, when you're presenting, they're usually to large
groups of people, so this one I've used, but I do it in the beginning, so I
usually ask people when I'm first starting up, ok everybody how are you
doing, yeah woohoo, all right everybody stand up, right away that gets really
good engagement, and now I want to find out from you how many of you are from
this industry, because depending on my keynote who I'm speaking to, I may have
multiple people, in multiple industries, I find that information out prior to by
the way, with the person who's hired me, and then I asked a question, okay who's
from health care, if you're from health care sit down, if you're from blah blah
blah, you want to be neutral with these questions, you don't want to have someone
left standing alone on a very serious question where then all eyes are on them
that's not fair, but you can use this technique as a little bit of an
icebreaker too, it gets people out of their seats, and they become
very engaged at the beginning, prop it up, so using props is a great way to engage
your audience, you just don't want to be talking, again a picture's worth a
thousand words, and one of the props that you can use is just that, a picture, so
a lot of times in my presentations that's all I have is a picture, particularly
if I'm trying to make a point, or if there's a series of points that I want
to make, I can even have a picture, go through a series of stories, which is
really cool, and a great way to do it, you can also use actual props too, now I
haven't done this, but I've seen it done, where people have used a beach ball, not
a bad idea, fun, engaging, it depends on what you're doing, but sometimes it can
be slightly distracting with what it is that you're trying to present, and who
your audience is, but again props are great if you know
who your audience is, and if it's small enough it can be really cool,
get moving, so if you're standing straight and you're at a podium and
you're talking, it becomes very boring, no matter how awesome your content is, even
if you're engaged facially and you have expression, you're at a podium, it's, it's
boring unfortunately, move around, move on your stage, go into the audience, I always
say, make sure I have a wireless mic when I'm speaking, because I get in the
audience, I'm actually the back of the room, in fact, when they kick it off, I go,
hey how's everybody doing, hope you're doing well, guess what I got,
a wireless mic, so for those of you in the back I'm gonna get to see you too
during this keynote, and it's a great way to keep people on their toes,
they're paying attention right, so I walk around, share the information, they start
turning around to follow me as well, which is a wonderful engagement
technique, so if you have ability to go into the audience do it, if you're too
large of a group or you can't get off the stage properly then stand the stage,
but move on that stage, really important for engagement, you want to address all
sides of the room, take questions, now usually at the end of every keynote
there's a Q&A portion, but sometimes people don't actually use it, but that's
okay, you can have it, but you can integrate and inject questions
throughout your keynote, now one of the things I do highly recommend is be
careful, when you take questions you're gonna be adding more time to your
presentation, so if you have a 45, or an hour slot, and you're like bang on 45
minutes, for an hour then don't take questions because it's totally gonna
throw you off kilter, and you're not gonna be able to finish your
presentation, you have to give about five minutes for question time, and it's
depending on how you do it, but it's a cool way to really get people engaged,
check it out, try it, now do you have any questions for
me in regards to what I've just spoken about, or any thoughts that you want some
extra clarification on, write them in the comments below, now that you mastered
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