Which of the following are strategies for drawing and holding your listeners attention?

During a business presentation, which often runs between heavy figures and macro data, it is important to capture the attention of the viewer, and more importantly to keep it… At Dolce Sitges we want to help our business guests achieve their goals and, to achieve them, we have renovated the conference rooms to make them more practical and technological… However, we know that space is not everything. That is why we have also developed a series of tips for our customers to get the full attention of their listeners. Watch out for the list of tips! 

Add rhythm changes to your speech

  

Which of the following are strategies for drawing and holding your listeners attention?

If your presentation lasts more than 20 minutes, create changes of pace. People often lose interest and become deconcentrated during long presentations, so you should anticipate this with items such as:

  • Videos
  • Stories or Anecdotes
  • Examples incluide
  • Participatory exercices

You can include lots of resources in your speech to make it more dynamic. Videos, for example, use the power of image and sound to draw all eyes to your projection. With real stories and anecdotes, less dense and easier to understand, you will be able to capture the curiosity of your listeners. Another simple and effective technique is to explain some examples of a problem you have encountered in your daily life and how you have managed to solve it. Finally, we recommend using participatory exercises, such as exercises, questions, or handing out materials. All this will help you to involve your audience in the presentation and, in this way, you will be able to keep their interest throughout the day.

Create visual presentations

Which of the following are strategies for drawing and holding your listeners attention?

A picture is worth a thousand words, which makes visual presentations the most powerful and effective. If you’re looking to make an impact, flood your slides with images and videos, include big headlines and leave the long blocks of text for encyclopedias. The key is to explain aloud as much as possible in order to turn your presentation into a support, not an obligatory document for your viewer…. And if you can also transform the numbers into colorful graphics, better than better.

There are many tools for creating visual presentations. Here are some of the most popular ones:

  • Prezi
  • Keynote
  • Google Slides
  • Emaze

There is life beyond Power Point, we promise. If you spend five minutes of your time researching these tools, you’ll find out how much they can help you with your presentations. Prezi, for example, is a very visual and dynamic online tool based on a graphical interface with zoom. If you take advantage of its potential, you will be able to give a good rhythm to your presentations. Keynote, on the other hand, is Apple’s alternative to PowerPoint: more elegant, more powerful with stunning effects – and don’t worry, it can also be used on PCs. Google Slides is a free tool designed to work as a team from the cloud and modify your documents at any time. Finally, Emaze is a free online presentation software with templates of all kinds and very easy to use for those with basic knowledge of this type of platform.

Remember that you can also stimulate other senses besides sight during your presentations. Why not include a product tasting or a motivational song?

Ask your listeners for feedback to improve 

Which of the following are strategies for drawing and holding your listeners attention?

Much of the success of a presentation is learning from mistakes and improving. Whether you think the day has been a positive one, or whether you doubt that you have captured the interest of your listeners, it is good to get out of doubt. With Typeform, a customizable visual quiz tool, you can ask them their opinion. This Spanish company has revolutionized the world of surveys with a simple formula: good design, usability and a reasonable price. Without a doubt, it is a highly recommended tool.

In this link you will find demos of their forms.

You already have all the information, now all you have to do is put it into practice during your next meeting…. who knows, maybe in the new Dolce Sitges conference and meeting rooms? Follow the blog, soon we will publish new Business Tips!

What are common ways of using the introduction to keep the attention of the audience?

Design an effective introduction.
Describe a scene or a character..
Tell a story..
Share a personal experience..
Relate to a recent event..
Piggyback on a previous speaker's remark or theme..
Point out something important about the audience or the current setting..
Show a compelling visual image..
Ask a provocative question..

What does the speaker do at the beginning of the speech to gain the audience's attention?

Attention. The attention getter is the first thing your audience will hear in every speech or presentation. It should grab their attention and make them want to listen to you as the speaker. Some good ways to gain attention are through the use of a story, fact, quote, engaging question, statistic, etc.

Which of the following is a demographic characteristics of a speech audience?

The demographic factors of an audience include age, gender, religion, ethnic background, class, sexual orientation, occupation, education, group membership, and countless other categories. Since these categories often organize individual's identities and experiences, a wise speaker attends to the them.

Where should the importance of your topic be stated to gain the interest of the audience?

The introduction is the place where the main claim or idea should be stated very clearly to give the audience a sense of the purpose of the speech. Speakers need to orient the audience and make connections between what they know or are already interested in and the speech topic.