{"id":1643,"date":"2019-08-27T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2019-12-06T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:55:51","slug":"making-friends-with-the-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/making-friends-with-the-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Friends with the Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Humility and a friendly demeanor is the quickest route to get the audience to agree to your point of view in decisive presentations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assuming neutral content, a presenter&#8217;s likability is critical to how well his\/her message is received. <strong>And likability is ALWAYS a two way street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For your audience to like you, <em>you have to like them first, and show it as you interact<\/em> before, during and after the presentation. I have seen the best of presentations suffer just because the presenter oozed superiority &#8211; totally unnecessary, isn&#8217;t it? The fact that you are the one standing and talking is proof enough that you are in a higher chair at that point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audience&#8217;s unconscious perception is critical in a decider presentation, shape it with your smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humility and a friendly demeanor is the quickest route to get the audience to agree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,12,134,29,199,238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakin.co\/edit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}