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Advice for Dealing with Hecklers
It should probably go without saying that comedians, presidential candidates, and other public speakers probably shouldn’t all use the same strategies for dealing with hecklers or difficult audience...
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Be Objectively Engaged with Your Audience
People’s fear of public speaking tends to collapse their awareness into themselves and lose track of what’s going on with their audience during a talk, but it’s important to observe them so you can see...
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Clear Communication Is Your Responsibility
It’s often tempting to blame the audience when they don’t “get it.” Anyone who has ever tried to train the same people over and over again on the same topic will understand the feeling. But, despite...
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Presentation Tips: Be Yourself
Whatever kind of presentation you find yourself doing, it’s critical that you engage your audience and find a way to relate to them. But that doesn’t mean that you should pander or pretend to be...
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How to Hold a Large Audience’s Attention for a Long Training Session
We recently finished an engagement where we provided a full day of presentation skills training for a group of 80 attending a corporate retreat. In most situations I’d be worried that training so many...
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Yoga Instructor Fired Over Cellphone Ban: Can You Control An Audience?
Photo From SFGate Maintaining control over an audience can feel a bit like trying to calm the ocean’s waves. Just ask Alice Van Ness, who lost her gig as a yoga instructor at Facebook after admonishing...
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Presentation Planning: Be Ready For Detours
Many speakers, whether they realize it or not, plan their presentations like a lawyer’s argument. They start by laying out the background, set out the evidence that supports their position, summarize...
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Presentation Skills: Keep Moving Past Your Mistakes
Presenting in front of an audience makes almost everyone a little bit nervous. After more than 20 years of teaching and training I still feel anxious right before I’m supposed to start. Unfortunately,...
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Jerry Seinfeld On Hecklers: Kill Them With Kindness
Most presenters won’t ever have to deal with a real heckler, the truly obnoxious jerk who feels entitled to interrupt and openly question your material or your value as a human being. (I suspect this...
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