How to Be Brilliant at Public Speaking

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Chapter

Managing the crowd

Now we turn to empathising with your audience as you speak.

You’ve prepared by developing bundles of empathy with who

you think your audience are, so how do you now use that prepa-

ration in reality?

Setting agreements with your audience

Spend some time in the first few minutes of your talk setting

agreements with your audience. This is a process of clarifying

exactly what you and the audience want to get from your talk.

If your speech is only a few minutes, either do this process very

speedily or leave it out.

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