How To Lose A Crowd In 10 Ways

How To Lose A Crowd In 10 Ways

Posted on 11. Mar, 2009 by in Communication, The Leadership Coach™

For those of you who communicate to audiences of any size, here are some common traps to avoid…

  1. Be absorbed in yourself and how interesting you think you are
  2. Keep talking long after you’ve communicated your point
  3. Don’t have a point
  4. Have 14 points (and 7 sub-points and 2 recaps)
  5. Hope people will be equipped and motivated by your content even though you aren’t
  6. Use clichés constantly
  7. Ignore visual cues and verbal feedback that you’re missing the mark, because hey… you’ve got the microphone
  8. Communicate only in the style that comes naturally to you
  9. Say all the right words but in monotone, while slouching and avoiding eye contact
  10. Decide you’ve got nothing to learn about communication
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One Response to “How To Lose A Crowd In 10 Ways”

  1. Gail

    23. Feb, 2011

    Here’s a couple more:

    * Use loads of acronyms, particularly uncommon or new ones, especially if you can string a whole bunch together.

    * Spend most of your time telling the audience how much you hate public speaking and all the different ways you tried to get out of doing it. This is good as it makes the audience accutely aware of their failure to get out of hearing you.

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