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By Joanna DENTON, Public Speaking Coach *
Day 1: Start with the audience, not your topic
When you are prepping your talk, your first thought should be for the audience, not your topic. Often, we as speakers can be so passionate about our subject that we work on the basis of “hell, I’m here to talk about this, and I am going to talk about this, and I don’t really care if you want to listen….”
No wonder we have all had moments of standing on stage and looking out to an audience more interested in their iPhones than what we are saying.
And let’s face it, if you are going to talk about new accounting regulations coming in, your talk will need to be different depending on whether your audience...
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