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Eye Contact

A great deal has been written about eye contact and there are various
schools of thought regarding the best ways of using it to engage your

audience. Generally speaking the audience will do what you do: if you
look out of the window or stare at the floor the audience will do the
same thing. If on the other hand you look at members of the audience

then they will return your eye contact.

Eye contact during a
Presentation

Involve everyone, make sure it is
natural, vary where & who you look at

Tells you how your
delivery & topic is being
received by the audience

Do not worry too much about the number of seconds that you spend maintaining

eye contact; the most important thing is to make eye contact with everyone in the
room before your presentation begins. This does not need to last more than a

fraction of a second but you must take the whole room in to your glance even
when there is a large audience.

It is quite acceptable to do this more than once in order to engage everyone’s
attention before you begin speaking. The single biggest factor that prevents proper
eye contact is presentation nerves. If you are nervous then there is a natural

temptation to avoid eye contact. If you have prepared properly and are presenting
confidently than your eye contact will be natural and will serve its purpose of
engaging with everyone in the room.

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