5 Steps to Avoiding a Public Speaking Train Wreck
I've always been intrigued by public speakers, good and bad. I always learn something. Recently, I was at a college and happened to drop in on a presentation. The speaker was a social worker who was at the college to give a talk on Alcohol Awareness. The room had about 100 mostly teenage kids seated at round tables of about eight each. The room had about 15 tables. There was a distance of perhaps 100 feet from the front of the room to the back, where I was.
The speaker lectured the kids on the dangers of alcohol. For the most part, I could not hear what she was saying because the kids were having their own conversations at their tables. Since the tables were round, half the kids had no field of vision of the speaker unless they turned their seats around, and kids being kids, they didn't bother. If […]