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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies
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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies

by Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
September 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
9h 7m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Knowing Your Audience to Make Them Heroes

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Assessing your last presentation

Bullet Seeing your target

Bullet Focusing on your audience, purpose, and key issue

Bullet Understanding what questions your audience will want answered

To improve communication, work not on the utterer, but on the recipient.

—PETER DRUCKER, AMERICAN BUSINESS PHILOSOPHER AND AUTHOR

Every presenter must remember four important words: It’s not about me! When your audience walks into the room, they’re thinking, “What’s in it for me?” Perhaps you think you already know your audience, but do you actually understand their (hidden) agendas or what keeps them up at night? In this chapter, you find out how to better understand your audience, their purpose and key issue, and the questions you need to address to create a presentation that will make each person feel like you’re speaking directly to them.

Sherylsays If you don’t get to know your audience at a deep level before your presentation, it will be like writing “To Whom ...

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