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Reading Your audience

Just as the audience read your own body language you too can read theirs. This continual
assessment of their level of attention helps you to understand how engaged they are
with the topic and your style of delivery. Is their reaction one of openness, or are they
responding negatively to what you are saying? Does the level of eye contact throughout
the audience show interest or apathy towards the topic?

When you are making a presentation the best way of staying in control and keeping
your audience with you is to keep them interested in what you are saying.

Openness Hostility

Boredom Disapproval

Audience
Interest body language Neutrality
shows

Another complication is that audiences are made up of individuals, who will not neces-
sarily share the same interests, attention span, or boredom threshold. People vary in the
way they express these feelings and you should be able to read signs of this from the
body language your audience display.

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