Need to make a big emotional pivot without losing your audience? Try a three-point turn.
The speaker ahead of me was wrapping up. I could feel a little knot of anxiety start to grow in my stomach as I prepared for my turn at the mic. Speaker after speaker before me had spoken with courage and vulnerability, and nobody in the room had been left unmoved....
Don’t be fooled by Resting Audience Face
You’re trucking along in your speech, performing with verve and passion, and look out to the crowd… …only to see face after face that looks completely unresponsive. Hell, you think. They hate this. I’m losing them. And, you know what? Maybe you are. But...RTWS: A different kind of conference
Someone offers a bottle of wine to everyone who didn’t do a PowerPoint presentation
