Listeners closely follow such performances in which new content is constantly revealed in the presented material. If the performance does not contain anything new, then it is left without attention, the participants of the event begin to get bored. The question of how to arouse, and most importantly, to keep the attention of the audience, often arises from speakers.
Instructions
Step 1
Make sure that your speech is logically organized, consistent, reasonable, consistent. Maintaining the audience's attention is facilitated by presenting ideas in opposition. Use the technique of dramatization: visual and emotional images of events related to the topic of the speech are suitable. Use provocation. State facts that are likely to disagree with the audience (and therefore grab their attention), and then work with the audience to come up with constructive methods for solving the problem.
Step 2
Your speech should be meaningful. New information unknown to the listener or an original interpretation of previously known facts will interest the audience.
Step 3
State the facts in an accessible way. Pause to reflect on what you hear. Listeners should have time to assimilate what was said and write down, if necessary.
Step 4
Include in your speech terms and concepts that you know exactly the definitions. Try to make your presentation clear and understandable. To do this, use examples from life, visual aids, artistic means, rationally combine theoretical propositions with facts.
Step 5
Use colorful verbal images, apt expressions, original comparisons. Use a variety of presentation techniques. For example, a question-and-answer course, dialogization of speech, from time to time contact the listeners, otherwise they will start to get bored.
Step 6
Be persuasive and emotional. Sincerity not only keeps the audience's attention, but also arouses empathy for the problem of the speech, infects the audience with an attitude towards it. As the Eastern wisdom says: "A speaker cannot convince anyone of what he is talking about if he does not have in his heart that which does not leave his tongue."
Step 7
Combine spoken language with a casual way of presenting the material. This works well for the listeners, invites them to think and talk together. The manner of presentation is manifested in gestures, the posture of the speaker, the expression on his face and the sound of his voice. Change your intonation as you speak. Speak now in a loud voice, now in a low voice, almost turning into a whisper. Listeners will listen to you, try to catch every word you say.
Step 8
Appearance is of paramount importance. The speaker's clothing should always be neat, hair in order, hands and nails well-groomed, shoes polished. Do not be eccentric, because everyone will look at you.
Step 9
Practice your performances in front of the mirror. Do not frown, do not read in space. Work with facial expressions. Exercise in tension and relaxation of the muscular muscles.
Step 10
Observe yourself. Do you know how to stand correctly? Here is the optimal speaker posture: legs spaced five to seven inches apart, socks slightly apart, one leg slightly in front of the other, there is no tension in the arms and shoulders, the neck and head are slightly pushed forward, the stomach is tucked up, the chest is exposed.
