Strategies for Presentations: Focus in Public Speeches

00:00 When you are giving a PowerPoint presentation, it's critical that your focus stays on your audience, the slides, whether they are behind you or in front of you.

00:12 That's for your audience.

00:13 It's not for you.

00:15 You don't want to be these speakers who's sort of turning around.

00:18 All you see is the back of the head and the creases in their jacket.

00:23 You have to focus on your audience if you're focusing on PowerPoint slides, especially if it's a bunch of texts.

00:30 I can tell you exactly what your audience is going to do.

00:34 Do, do. Do, do, do.

00:35 Challenge. Check, email.

00:36 Let's check sports scores.

00:38 Let's check stock price.

00:39 They are going to ignore you.

00:41 It's human nature. If you ignore your audience, they will ignore you.

00:46 So you have to be focused on your audience.

00:49 You need to be giving eye contact at least 95% of the time on members of your audience.

00:55 If you don't do that, you will lose them.