Presentation Skills: May I Help You?

Many audience members would love to get a piece of the limelight by helping
the presenter. Take advantage of this fact by giving out jobs. You could have an
audience member writing on the flipchart for you. You could have another one
handling cue cards or timing the presentation.

This is also a good method to handle audience members who you fear might be boisterous enough to be disruptive. If you give them something to do, you will have better control over
them and you will be able to give them the attention that they want.

Try to make sure potentially troublesome audience members are seated close
to you so you have some measure of control. If they are seated in the back, any
noise they make will cause the rest of the audience to look away from you.

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