21/10/2019
** Being a Great Speaker: Success Tip #2 **
Connect to Your Audience to Serve Them
As presenters the audience is what matters – we don’t need to get our own message because we already know it! The whole purpose of a presentation/speech is to convey our message to the audience and to do that we need to truly SEE, HEAR and SENSE their movements and their mood.
**It is ALL about getting the message across to your audience. If you remember that, you'll worry less about the chatter in your head! **
The best prepared speech can (and often does) fall flat because the speaker is in “down” time and does not stay connected with their audience.
Expanded awareness refers to our capacity to attend to our environment, and to bring into consciousness what is happening around us. It is the conscious focusing on the external environment, as opposed to an internal focus on ourselves.
When someone is in a state of expanded awareness, they are alert and alive to everything around them.
To create this state you use the focus point of your eyes and expand your field of vision. When you are focused on one particular spot your field of vision is narrow and limited. This is called foveal vision. In this state, you are in “down” time and consequently more likely to be disconnected from your audience. However, you can expand your peripheral vision to include the whole 180 degrees and you can continue further to the point where you can even become aware of things that are happening behind you!
Being in expanded awareness, allows you to know how your message is being received by your audience and to make adjustments to your presentation if required.
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