Throughout the course, so far, we've mentioned your audience quite a lot. And they loomed large when we talked about your fears. You have to take the many headed beast into account when you're preparing and delivering your speech. So let's take a closer look at them. First of all, the audience are the people you need to inform or persuade or entertain. Really, it's it's an honor to have an audience what you're going to say.

So consider them and try to think like a listener as well as a speaker. It pays in the long run. Would you want to bore yourself, so don't inflict it on your audience? It's all about communication, planting an idea from one mind yours into there's the audience. So your audience, who are they? What do they want from you?

What do you want from them? And how many will there be? So many speakers forget this to the detriment of their public speaking, your audience is your target. They are the ones you want to influence or inform. So you need to pitch the speech at the right level for your particular audience. So ask the questions.

What do they already know? What is their expertise? What are they expecting? And what are their aspirations and goals? Do your speech goals mesh with this? What are their ages?

Are they all men, women, or mixed? And maybe the most important question is your boss in the audience. Your audience won't exist in a vacuum. There'll be listening in some sort of venue, maybe their own venue. And this can affect how you interact with your audience. You might not be speaking in a familiar venue.

So if you're able to get information about the venue beforehand, then do so the way you prepare and deliver your speech. affected by the size of the venue, the lighting the acoustics, and what facilities you have. Check whether there's a LinkedIn or a table, because that will affect how you use your speaking notes. find out whether you can rearrange the layout of the venue or not. While you're at it, find out how long you're expected to speak for, and whether you'll be expected to answer questions. Are you the only speaker?

Or are you just one of many speakers? If you can visit the venue beforehand. Your audience is made up of individuals, and you'll want to make the whole experience feel personal to each one of them. You need to develop a rapport with the audience as a whole and with each person in it. This is where your fleeting eye contact with individuals in the audience becomes so important. Do you remember what we told you about it?

We try to build rapport with our audience. So we build up a trust between us. You should engage with the audience, not lecture them or pressure them. Make sure you know how formal or informal the occasion is, and respond accordingly. Be confident, or at least look as if you are show a positive attitude. Usually an audience is looking to welcome you and the message you're putting across.

Don't forget to smile when you start. humor. It's not a place if you use it wisely and good eye contact and pauses will help you build up recall. Try not to speak too quickly, because if you do, you'll probably lose your audience because they won't be able to follow what you're saying. This is very common with inexperienced and nervous speakers. And it shows now unless your speeches about yourself, try not to use the words me or I.

If you can try to read your audience as you're speaking, it's my speech work in or should I change my approach a little. Now? What does the lost audience do? What does it look like? What does It sounds like and why is it happening? You can often detect the warning signs through their body language.

You want them to be alert still and upright. So now, are these fidgeting, shifting and squirming? Looking at their watches? Are they beginning to use their mobiles to text or play games? Are the staring out of the window? Are they whispering or openly talking to colleagues?

Is anyone walking out? Look out for the signs of restlessness or boredom. And if you spot any, it might be time for a surprise aside to bring them back to you again. questions that are recall are real that you pose in your speech can help you gain rapport. Although you want to build a rapport, you should realize that a speech is not the same as conversation. Now we're all familiar with speaking to an audience and we rarely speak in a non conversational way.

We don't realize it but there are implicit rules in conversation. It's all about turns, we speak one at a time, and then come in for a turn on cube. If we're not going to be seen as rude, we don't interrupt, and we pay great attention to when our friend gets the end of their turn. And then we start our turn before the silence between us get so long is to be awkward, just a split second really, though we might not be aware of it. In fact, we pay close attention because of the tension of having to speak. And to get it right when we do speak.

Positive replies come immediately, negative ones after a delay, to stop our responses being called negative. We often use M or earth to give ourselves thinking time, we mustn't be seen to be losing attention. So there's always that tension there. We listen closely, because we might have to speak next, and it shows we're listening. This means that in a conversation, we have to stay alert and show a high level of attentiveness. But we do have some control over the direction the calm mistake is taking by what we say when we reply.

Now, when we're in an audience, the dynamics are very different. The main differences, there's not that give and take. There's no concept of terms unless you're in a seminar, a question and answer session. So one person will speak for maybe 10 minutes, or probably more. Because of that, we know we don't have to take our turn and speak next. There's no immediate tension about having to speak next.

So our incentive to pay attention is massively reduced. Our only job is to listen. But we don't often do that at all. In addition, we can influence the direction of the speech. And if we get confused at any point, then we tend to give priority to what did you mean, rather than concentrating on the next point, we just can't ask. any difficulties stem from the differences between public speaking and conversation so audiences can get easily bored, especially in this adult ADHD age and you the speaker have the responsibility to avoid or alleviated a speech isn't conversation, you know now that it's a performance, that he has his own techniques, and you also know those techniques.

After all, we told them to you and you have been practicing having to sum up. When you're speaking in public, try to find out as much about your audience as you can and the venue you're speaking in, because they'll both influence the way you write and deliver your speech. Become apt in building rapport with your audience, and use the techniques of speaking in public that we've taught you in previous videos. Don't forget that you can always go back and view the modules anytime we want. Now, looking forward, many audiences today are sitting in a PowerPoint presentation, and they're often bored to tears what you've probably experienced it yourself. So in the next few videos, we're going to solve the problem for you