There they are – waiting for you to begin! A room,
hall or auditorium – often full of members of your peer group, all
waiting to hear what you have to say – and you know you must hold
their attention from the moment you stand up to speak.
In those first few seconds, this is not achieved by your words, but
by your posture and bearing - which - if you are to succeed - must spell
confidence!
A congregation of fifty can often be more daunting then five hundred
because you can see the body language of every person in the room and
know instinctively if you are holding their attention.
Usually you will be speaking on a subject those listening know something
about – some perhaps even as much or more than you do, so your
words must be quick-witted and clever, effective, informative and enlightening,
always coupled with humour, and always always containing an element
of surprise, preferably at the very beginning.
It is imperative that you hold your audience from the first words you
say otherwise you will never have a hundred per cent of their attention,
and you should never aim for anything less than that.
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