If you want to be more engaging when you're on stage, one of the key parts of that is to actually engage with the audience. And by that, I mean, speak to them as though you're having a conversation. So Ken Robinson does this really cleverly in a TED talk? That's about creativity in education? Do look it up online, it's really worth a watch. So what is it he does it so clever?

Well, he very often at the end of sentences just says to the audience, isn't it or doesn't it? So he's making a statement, but then he's turning it into a question that feels very conversational. He doesn't want people to answer back. There isn't time for that in his speech, but you do see them smiling and nodding in agreement with him. So they are engaging with what he's saying, because he's asking them to engage. So if you want to make a statement on Age.

Like, we all know what it's like when somebody that you're waiting for is late. That's, that's fine as a statement down the age, but it's much more engaging if you say, we all know what it's like when we're waiting for someone who was late. Don't wait. Much better for the audience because they go oh, yeah, I know. You're standing there, you're wondering where they are looking for a text message I do now. And that's what we want.

We want people nodding and agreeing with us as much as possible when we're speaking. To try that putting it in your script, even deciding where those will go. There is little nods to the audience. You and I both know, don't wait. And I think they'll really like it.