Visibility Impaired: Make it easy for the audience to see and listen to the speaker

How many times a day are you sitting listening to someone? My guess is way too many. Generally speaking, the meetings we attend, we are on our own. We need to keep ourselves awake and interested. I believe this is the responsibility of the planner and the speaker to capture the audience and guide them [...]

Dead transition kills. Quick, do something! Your audience is losing interest.

Reduce the lag time between acts for a fast-paced show.

Eliminate every second that is unnecessary or boring. The other night, our international student from Korea asked us, his host parents to attend his event. He is the student planner of a talent show at his college.  As responsible, caring, host parents, we attended. [...]

Presentation Skills Seminar in Seattle, Thursday, March 26th, 8:30-4:30pm

In this full day Presentation Skills Workshop, you’ll learn to SHAPE your message and SHARPEN your delivery. Whether you’re speaking to clients, employees, stakeholders or the media, you need to speak with authenticity, confidence and passion. Gain the ultimate advantage, communicating effectively for a competitive edge.
Six top Presentation Skills Experts from the National Speakers Association [...]

NSA Oregon Follow-Up – Art of Audience Interaction Program

Jolene Jang      jo@FunSpecialist.com   www.FunSpecialist.com

In reference to this linked meeting.
The goal of the session was to give you ideas on how to create the ideal audience.    

Know your audience – Example Pre-Program Questionnaire,
Change expectations – do it differently, mix it up – sign up for newsletter here.
Design an interactive meeting environment – think of Hollywood, Broadway [...]

Santa delivers a post holiday gift to event and meeting planners

Picture This:
The speaker demanded two wireless mics and a sound check 1.5 hours before the program.  The planner is thinking, “That’s an extra $150 per wireless microphone, plus we now need to have the AV guy to set it up which is $60 an hour. Our other speakers don’t have these requests. She also requests [...]

National Speakers Association Oregon Meeting, January 12

This is a program for professional speakers.
Get your audience where you want them: with you.  With attention spans shrinking, tech-gadgets on the rise and time as valuable as gold, it is imperative for you, as a speaker, to get Interactive!
Past precedents have set negative expectations for today’s meetings.  The audience doesn’t know you anything about [...]