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When you make a statement to your audience, they're passive. Asking questions gets them involved mentally, making them active.
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Bill Gates presentation style
- Catching attention with an interesting statement, to build connection with your audience
- Using gestures
- Showing investment in the subject
- Asking effective questions
- Pausing after making a powerful point and after asking a que...
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When you speak about an idea or process to your audience, you know exactly what you're talking about. But the audience doesn't.
These concepts can be very abstract without concrete examples to illustrate. Give them examples, and you'll keep their attention.
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Gestures animate a speech
- Emphatic gestures: express feeling and conviction;
- Descriptive gestures: help express action, or to show dimension and location.
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Interruptions aren’t all bad: some of them can actually be pretty valuable contributions to the conversation.
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