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b. Hostile Audience
These are the people who are in
strong disagreement with our idea. We
do not need to panic. We need to come
up with a common ground, a starting
point to relate to our audience. Try to
think of reasons why they don’t agree
with our view point, play the devil’s
advocate with ourselves and ask
ourselves what we might be leaving out.
Always consider why people are not
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c. Uninformed Audience
These are people who are unfamiliar with
the topic of discussion. We as the speaker needs to
provide them with everything they need to know
about the topic. Here we need to figure out how
much information to provide them depending
upon their level of knowledge about the topic.
Pick and choose the key points that will help our
audience wrap their head around the topic https://strategymanage.com/blog/
without being mentally exhausted.

d. Expert Audience
The audience here is already
engaged with what we are telling them.
The biggest mistake we can do is to give
them a background of the topic. Therefore,
we need to give them something new that

they are uninformed about.

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e. Business Audience
Time is money for this audience
and they do not have the patience to sit
through our story telling. Keep it short!
We need to be polite and concise, brevity
is an absolute vital. Make sure they
understand that we are talking about
them and not ourselves, especially if it is
something that they would not want to
hear. pcmode.org

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