Public Speaking and Presentation Skills: Work the Crowd!

Which of the following questions best describes you. 1. Do you routinely give presentations on different topics to a particular kind of audience.

2. Do you give presentations on the same topic to audiences of all different types. 3.

Do you give different presentations to different kinds of audiences. Whichever is the case, there will be times when you want to use the presentation skills taught in this course to make your presentation even more effective by spending some advance time tailoring it for a specific audience. Imagine this: You arrive at a presentation only to discover the composition of your audience is not what you expected.

If you haven't had this happen to you, it will. Even if you've done your research and prepared very carefully for your audience, sometimes your audience's expectations are different from what you had anticipated. In these cases, you'll also have to tailor your presentation, but you'll have to do it in real time.