This write-up provides specific advice for engaging and facilitating your audience. It begins by addressing the anxiety many speakers feel around getting their audience’s engaged. It next provides specific audience engagement techniques, and finally it concludes by using a Q&A session as an example for facilitating audience interaction.
This interview illuminates a variety of techniques a presenter can use to engage his or her audience when delivering presentations over the web.
Tame Your Stage Fright (Toastmasters Magazine, March 2013)
This article discusses common speaking anxiety symptoms and provides specific guidance on easy-to-use techniques to manage them.
Learn some easily implementable steps to delivering more confident and compelling communication in this brief audio recording.
This engaging webinar discusses how to establish credibility through a speaker’s knowledge and confidence. Additionally, it discusses common anxiety accelerators.
This article describes how courage can be used to address your fear of presenting in front of others. It provides some quick, scientifically valid confidence building techniques.
This brief podcast discusses how to engage your audience so that they actively listen to your messages and are eager to participate in your Q&A session.
5 Things to Do 5 Minutes Before Every Presentation. (www.HRprosMemphis.com, March 2012)
This article provides a list of five easy activities you can do immediately prior to speaking that will help you feel more confident and prepared to present.
This article provides practical guidance on techniques you can use to be more engaging and relevant to your audience.
A Cure for Blanking Out: What research found down memory lane.
(Toastmaster Magazine, February 2012)
This article offers practical and proven tips to address the single greatest public speaking fear: forgetting parts
of your presentation while standing before an audience.
Q&A: Getting the Questions You Want (Training Magazine.com, January 2012)
This article discusses easily-implementable steps speakers can take to get their audience engaged and involved,
especially in the Q&A session.
Know Thy Fear by Matt Abrahams (Toastmaster Magazine, April 2011)
This article discusses three sources of most people’s public speaking anxiety and relates an academically supported anxiety management technique with each source.
Toastmasters Podcast with Matt Abrahams
This interview provides insight into specific speaking anxiety management techniques that can be immediately used to improve speaking confidence and connection to the audience.
