by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
I’ve done it, and if you’ve ever got a stack of feedback forms after a presentation, you’ve probably done it. You go through all the feedback forms ignoring the “Great job” “Learnt a lot” comments and go straight for the form...
by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
In 2001, I was a candidate for the Green Party in New Zealand. I spent a ton of time preparing for the “Meet the Candidate” meetings. But I didn’t spend most of my time on planning my presentation. I spent most of my time preparing for the Q&A. I...
by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
The complaints started within the first half hour of the course: “I don’t understand what this means”. “This is too hard for us”. “This doesn’t work for the presentations that I have to do.” By the end of the day I was...
by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
This is a guest post by Leon Potgieter. “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” – Dave Barry The...
by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
Your audience’s attention will fade over time unless you take specific steps to keep them engaged. Here’s a graph showing the attention of university students during a 50 minute lecture – where the lecturer lost his audience (Reference: Hartley J and Davies I “Note...
by Olivia Mitchell | Audience
Last week I wrote about the challenge of the third era of presenting: the era of the audience. Kristin Arnold has written a provocative and intensely practical book Boring to Bravo on how to meet that challenge by encouraging audience participation . The philosophy of...