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Please Take My 2015 Reader Survey

Joseph Lalonde

Would you be willing to take a short survey to help me get to know and serve you better? When you fill out the survey below, you’re helping me help you. I look forward to hearing you and moving in a direction that’s appropriate to you, my audience. I want to make my blog better in 2015. To do this, I need your input.

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Are You Ready to Deliver a Great Presentation?

Lead Change Blog

Greet the audience as you would a group of friends. Eye contact— Start by making solid eye contact with the audience. Ask a question that directly engages the audience. Benefits— Explain what the audience will gain. Offer some fresh ideas and insights that will interest the audience. Get their attention.

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Media Preferences Shape Our Political Views

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers combined a large online survey with data tracking which news websites participants visited a month before the study. They found that what people said in the survey generally matched their actual news consumption. Second, people with different media preferences in the survey often visited the same online news sites.

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Afraid of Public Speaking? You Should Be

Leading Blog

But the Chapman University Survey of American Fears (yes, that’s a thing) — the gold standard for fear assessment — doesn’t seem to agree. Then, I won’t notice the room or my nerves or anything other than being one with the material and the audience. R ECEIVED WISDOM is that public speaking is one of people’s greatest fears.

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Audience Mind-Meld: Real-Time Data Makes It Possible

Strategy Driven

Have you ever given a presentation to a large group, looked out at your audience and wondered what they were thinking? If you give presentations for a living, you probably have a number of techniques to take your audience’s pulse, such as asking for a show of hands or opening the session up for questions to get their thoughts on a topic.

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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

The first thing I do is thank them for the opportunity to serve their audience… I ask if there is anything else I can do to help them in that moment… Then I remind them of our scheduled post-game conversation about a week after the event.

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The Benefits Of Science Communication

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, scientists who effectively communicated their work to non-scientific audiences were able to gain a boost in their scientific work as well. Indeed, many scientists said that interacting with non-expert audiences helped them to reflect on their own work in a new way.

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