Reading_Your_Audience_Like_A_Book

Reading Your Audience Like A Book Reading Your Audiences Like a Book Did you ever have one of those presentation experiences where you hit everything just right' You were really in the zone, firing up your audience while disseminating all of your valuable content. How did you know it was working' The answer is fairly obvious—the audience was giving you clues to their appreciation. Their applause, body language, and other signals told you that your presentation was a winner. Now how about those days when you’re off' Did the presentation just go downhill from the start, ending in a polite smile from the person who hired you that masked the dissatisfaction she may have been too kind to tell you about, with you just chalking it up to experience' Perhaps you made the save, recognizing that you were losing the listeners along the way and adjusted to turn this experience into a winner as well. If so, consider yourself fortunate and skilled in the art of reading your audience. One dual training session that I gave involved a bit of a character act on the part of my partner and I, sort of a good cop/bad cop audience, people, during, humor, eyes, questions, presentation, good, about, one, make, just, exercises, time, out, even, enough, crowd, check, ask, adjustments, you’re, watch, they’re, start, something, signals, sign, shaking, relevant, read, person, means, leaning, know