Communication Hack 6 - How To Keep Your Audience Engaged

Today, I'm going to teach you how to keep your audience engaged.

Just remember this: “You’re the least important thing in the whole equation.”

This means: whatever you try to communicate, it should be all about the audience. But it never should be about us. Involve them, try to understand them, talk to them.

Also, stories are a great tool to keep them engaged.

There is a simple way of becoming a good storyteller by using the senses. Using the senses creates depth in a story and makes people interested. This means, next time you’re preparing a presentation, go through the five senses - seeling, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting - and incorporate two or three of them in your presentation. For example, during the presentation describe the situation with phrases like “After that I saw…. I suddenly heard… Then I felt… I tasted… and I smelled….”. Try it out!