Retention Of Audience

Interest
 Introduction
• As a speaker, you have only 30 seconds to grab the audience’s attention and
motivate them to listen with a bang.
• An effective presentation, these initial seconds play a crucial part.
• Do not waste your initial time stupidly, if you waste, then your listener’s
focus will probably fade away and you may not get them back.
• it can be difficult to hold your audience’s attention for the entire
presentation.
 Audience Involvement is important
• An effective presentation, audience involvement is very important because
high audience engagement helps you stand out.
• It creates a positive feedback loop that makes your content more meaningful.
• Without involvement of your audience your presentation is meaningless.
 Plan from audience perspective
• Before you start writing your presentation think about that these point:
• What are the most interesting part in my topic?
• How much the audience might be knowing about my topic?
• How can i help them to learn and understand my topic?
• What is the size of the audience?
 Use an easy follow structure
Start : introducing core concept and objectives.
Middle : elaborate all various points.
End :draw logical conclusion.
 How to capture audience attention?
• Start with a bold statement.
• Tell a story.
• Video brings your presentation alive
• Ask rhetorical question
• Use quotations
• Never read line by line
• Use humour
 Start with a bold statement
• A bold statement can capture your audience’s attention right from the get go.
• your statement should offer something slightly unusual and maybe even a
little controversial.
• Something to make people sit up and take notice.
 Tell a story
• One of the best ways to get your audience’s attention is to tell a story,
it’ll hit them right in the feels.
 Video brings your presentation alive
• Videos provides you a break.
• Including videos in your presentation changes its flow and allows audience to
relax before focusing again.
 Ask Rhetorical Question
• If you are wondering how to start a presentation speech, start with a
question.
• Ask open ended question, not close ended(yes/no).
 Use Quotations
• One of the funny way to start a presentation is to quote from movies
because it is entertaining.
• example:
life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.(forest
gump)
 Never Read Line By Line

• Never read line by line from a slide in presentation.

• That makes presentation flat and boring.
 Use Humour
• Having a laugh can really do a lot to win over an audience. There’s no need
to be too serious, and even if you are dealing with a heavy topic, lightning
the mood can work wonder.
Thank You