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Involving Your Audience: Making It Active (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)
Involving Your Audience Making It Active - Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series Author:Karen Lawson Discover how to get the audience to interact with one another-and the speaker!
Discover the basic needs and expectations of every audience
Incorporate pre-session questionnaires to create more relevant activities
Understand why the client's meeting planner may hold the keys to success
Audience involvem... more »ent is the goal of every speaker, even if that involvement is simply active listening. The speaker's choice of ideas and supporting materials and the way those elements are delivered largely determine the audience's role. But contemporary audiences seek more participation. Visual aids, workbooks or handouts, and creative exercises are fast becoming the norm in public presentations. In these pages Karen Lawson offers practical, how-to approaches for keeping the glitches out of presentations and shows how to use interactive presentations to increase impact and ensure speaker success! Lawson provides proven techniques for connecting with audiences and actively encouraging them to participate. Karen Lawson is president of Lawson Consulting Group Inc., a consulting firm specializing in organization and management development. Her clients include Kodak, DuPont, Prudential, Citibank, and SmithKline Beecham. She was president of the Philadelphia chapters of both the National Speakers Association and the American Society for Training and Development. She is the author of four books, The Art of Influencing, Improving On-The-Job Training, The Trainer's Handbook, and Improving Workplace Performance Through Coaching. She is co-author with Mel Silberman of 101 Ways to Make Training Active and Twenty Active Training Programs Volume II. Dr. Lawson has taught at Temple University and SUNY-Binghamton, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware.« less