{"id":2679,"date":"2018-02-21T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/5-ways-to-make-your-presentation-feel-like-a-conversation\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:42:39","slug":"5-ways-to-make-your-presentation-feel-like-a-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/5-ways-to-make-your-presentation-feel-like-a-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"5 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION FEEL LIKE A CONVERSATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Add (silent) dialogue to your presentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many times did you doze off, while a presenter was reading his slides? If people are talked at and don&#8217;t feel engaged, their attention span is proportionally short. The solution is to grab and hold your public&#8217;s attention by adding (silent) dialogue. This is especially difficult to achieve if your audience is large. One of the biggest compliments anyone can pay you is: your presentation felt like a conversation!<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to engage your\u00a0 listeners, you need to add dialogue. Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Structure your presentation. In conversation we tend to make a point and then prove it. So build your presentation around key points and show evidence to support them.<\/li>\n<li>Pause after stating an idea. This gets the mental dialogue of your audience going. Give them time to think, look at them for feedback and repeat your point if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Ask rhetorical questions. It\u2019s simple and effective. It\u2019s very difficult not to think about an answer when you are asked a question. Don\u2019t you agree? (I just did it!)<\/li>\n<li>Sit down while presenting. Of course this is not always possible, but try it. It makes the presentation much more conversational and natural.<\/li>\n<li>Be yourself. This last point seems easy, but proves to be hard for many presenters. Be yourself and converse with your audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\">website <\/a>and see what we can do to reinvent the way you present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add (silent) dialogue to your presentation. How many times did you doze off, while a presenter was reading his slides? If people are talked at and don&#8217;t feel engaged, their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stickypresentations.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}