The Art of Visual Speaking
maintains audience attention throughout presentation with the effective use of speaker’s body, voice, and words to creatively and concisely illustrate messages.
A focus on audience attention rejects ordinary outcomes!
Audience-Centered RESULTS
Audience Attention Decreases Amount of Time Wasted
Audience Attention Requires Methods to Prevent Boredom
Audience Attention Overcomes the Pull of Distractions
A lack of audience attention ignites desire to improve skills!
Audience-Centered MOTIVATION
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Efficient Preparation
You create a message and, after delivering it, you believe your lack of preparation time is to blame for losing audience attention.
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Nervousness Release
Your audience pays less attention to what you say when your nervous mannerisms are interpreted as lacking confidence.
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Animated Delivery
You use wordy visual aids as speaking notes, even though your prolonged focus on these visuals divert attention from you and the message.
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Behavior Change
Although you receive lackluster responses from your audiences, improving your presentation skills is a low priority for you.
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Memorable Presentation
Your audience seems to understand your content while delivering it, but days later can’t recall much of what they heard.
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Hopeful Improvement
You decline invitations to prepare and deliver presentations, avoiding the negative audience reactions you previously experienced.
Audience attention requires change from common practices!
Audience-Centered DISTINCTION
Most speakers do not intentionally bore their audiences. In fact, many are well-intentioned. They typically want their audience to know what they discovered while preparing the presentation.
However, in their zeal to deliver as much information as possible, these speakers lose their audience. They deliver their presentation as if the audience’s attention span is the same as theirs, without realizing how the speaker’s attention span is substantially increased during the preparation process.
In other words, boredom sets in when the speaker attempts to, metaphorically, pour its pitcher full of content into the audience’s empty cup. Much is wasted when a pitcher full of information is emptied into a cup, since the cup retains very little from the pitcher.
The speaker mistakenly pours the content in the same manner as the pitcher was filled during preparation. Essentially, the audience’s capacity to retain content during message delivery is not the same as the speaker during message preparation.
It’s easy to become comfortable with holding the attention of some of the audience, some of the time, throughout an entire presentation. The personal satisfaction in reaching some of the audience tends to block a speaker from fully assessing the presentation’s areas of needed improvement.
Reaching some means there is more work to do in reaching all. A more reliable indication of a speaker’s effectiveness comes from the audience members who are not paying attention.
Those who are seemingly attentive are quite possibly engaged in casual hearing, without adequately processing the message. This is typically the case when speakers incorporate wordy, digital slides into their presentation.
While it may appear that audience members are actively listening to and processing the message, their attentiveness is actually “active confusion.” They are engaged in an attempt to understand information they are reading within the slides while, at the same time, listening to information coming from the speaker’s voice.
Speakers maximize the preparation process when resources are used to not only organize content, but also to practice content delivery.
Many speakers, however, focus primarily on content preparation, particularly if the bulk of their preparation occurs immediately prior to the scheduled presentation date. As a consequence, those speakers run the risk of delivering a message filled with abstract concepts and with extremely limited potential for grabbing and holding audience attention.
Preparation efficiency is maximized when speakers know what to do and how to do it. When speakers know and understand the absolute importance of connecting with their audience throughout their presentation, they don’t waste resources preparing content that appeals only to audience members’ sense of hearing.
These speakers include material that draws mental pictures. They practice an animated delivery of this content, further engaging the audience throughout the presentation.
The BOOST Process naturally increases audience attention!
Audience-Centered ACTION
BOOST appropriately describes my Group Training and Private Coaching philosophy and methodology. Here’s a brief summary for you to remember.
Clients receive a BOOST or increase of awareness as they discover their natural presentation style from an audience viewpoint.
Clients also receive a BOOST or elevation of their presentation performance as they enhance, not abandon, their natural style.
Tim Brown, JD, MDiv - Public Speaking Practitioner, Visual Speaking Training Consultant
“I appreciate how your content organization techniques helped to relieve my nervousness while speaking!”
LaTrece Smith, MBA MSW LCSW - Chief Executive Officer, EPIR Source Mental Health Services, St. Louis, MO
“Thank you for our customized training. It exceeded my expectations!”
Joe H. Tucker, Jr., Esq. - Founder and CEO, Tucker Law Group, Philadelphia, PA
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“The course was well structured. The material was expertly conveyed. The presenter, Tim, is enthusiastic, and highly qualified.”
“All the tips - will continue to work on these points. Looking forward to private coaching too.”
“Your individual attention to each of our strengths/weaknesses and ability to incorporate our feedback on the fly.”
“The hands on training w/ the taping, playback & direct critique.”
“The instructors ability to deliver constructive criticism.”
“The practice and instruction format.”
“Time taken to give individual comments.”
“The ability to adapt and make/tailor the program to us.”
“All of the public speaking - the portion of the day - excellent!”
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