How to Deal with People Texting - Public Speaking Video Lecture - Public

and someone's texting in your audience
here are three very specific strategies
you can try for starters simply walk
over near the person especially if
they're on the front row
once you physically get close typically
they're like oh I got busted without you
saying anything
they'll put their phone away now the key
here is you're not looking at them like
you're looking in another direction so
you don't seem like you're bothered or
rude or anything like that that's one
strategy another strategy is to see that
the person's texting over here and
reference them while looking over here
oh as Jim was saying to me before the
class and now Jim's like here's his name
he's looking up so he's brought back in
something else you can do is ask the
person a question but you're not looking
at them you're far away so you don't
seem like you've pounced on that Jim has
that ever happened to you
now he's gonna bring that face up the
phone goes down but I urge you you've
got to nip this in the bud because if
you let your audience
start talking texting checking email
they're not going to respect you there
will be a ripple effect and you will
have lost them so nip it in the bud