Let's Change It!

On the edge of their seats.

When was the last time you looked at your audience and saw them leaning toward you, genuinely interested in your presentation? When was the last time your audience acted as if what you were saying really mattered to them?

OK. Let's turn the tables. When was the last time you sat in the audience and felt compelled to give the speaker your undivided attention because what they were saying was clearly important to you? When was the last time you didn't feel like each presentation you saw was simply a waste of time?

I, as a fellow audience member, can fairly easily guess what the answers to those questions are.
The sad truth is that most of the time speakers are speaking to audiences that aren't listening.

What's happening here? What's the point of making presentations anyway? Why aren't we taking advantage of this great form of communication? What can we do about it?

The main objective of this blog is to address these questions and talk about what we can do to start thinking differently about presentations.

Let's change the way things are done! It's time to start making presentations that people WANT to listen to and that get the results that speakers set out to achieve.

Let's get audiences back to where they should be - on the edge of their seats!

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