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Ever been a delegate at a conference and found it hard to keep awake?Do not blame yourself. The presenter had obviously failed to engage your interest. How much does he really expect you to take in as he pulls up the umpteenth PowerPoint™ slide of the day? If he'd been asking you interesting questions, wouldn't he have gained your attention? Of course, he would! |
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You can ask questions that gage the audiences emotional reaction to your stories.
For example, you could ask:
"How do you feel about that Idea?
In Favour or Against or Not sure "
Both you and your whole audience can then see how they feel. Participation is vigorous. Nobody feels left out.
You can achieve group consensus on a topic without a few individuals trying to gain dominance. Everyone's vote counts. Everyone's vote counts the same.
Learning ceases to be in conflict with a few personalities who might tend to make a noise on these sort of occasions.
Your whole session can now regularly involves Interaction that verifies your presentation message has been received, checks understanding of that message, reinforces its retention and passes on ownership of the message.
If the purpose of your presentation is to achieve a group opinion on a topic, then you can clearly do that without any individual bias or misreading of the group's views.
