What to Do If You're Losing Audience | Public Speaking Video Lecture | Public Speaking: Learn and Boost your Confidence (English) - Communication

huh never happen to you when you're in
the audience or is that ever happened to
you when you're looking at your audience
and you're losing them what do you do if
you're losing your audience well first
of all you got to realize most of the
time it's not their fault it's your
fault if your audience is zoning out
playing with their phone talking to each
other
there's a problem and it's you you're
not being interesting so the biggest
reason most audiences zone out is you're
up there giving some boring data dump
you're ignoring your audience and you're
going through your little powerpoint
delivering data boring so if you're
losing your audience you've got to stop
and you've got a regroup maybe you ask a
question of an audience maybe you tell a
story that relates to someone of the
audience maybe you walk around to create
variety but you do need to pay attention
to your audience this presentation is
about your audience it's not about you
so if you just go through your
presentation and ignore them as if
nothing happened
what good is it what have you really
accomplished so you've got to engage
your audience sometimes you just got to
stop and ask a question of the audience
and figure out how can you retool what
you've got to be more interesting and
relevant to them sometimes you're in a
subject area and you realize oh I'm
going too long on this subject they're
not interested I'm gonna have to edit
that out and go to the next part of my
presentation you're gonna have to do an
edit on your feet but do keep one thing
in mind if you're speaking to more than
20 people you can be the best speaker in
the entire world and there could be
someone right on the front row who's
falling asleep it's happened to me
it's happened to Ronald Reagan it's
happened to Bill Clinton and realize
that people have other stuff going on in
their life they may have a newborn child
at home and they haven't slept in three
days it's
not that your speech is bad so don't
ignore everyone in the room and just
focus on that one person who seems to be
out of it or dozing or having a bad day
give them a little attention but if
they're gone they're gone give attention
to everyone else in the room really
focus on your audience members one at a
time and you will solve the problem of
losing your audience