Importance of Good Audience Relationships

Series Summary

The key to any good public speaker is establishing a connection with the audience they are speaking to. If there is no connection, the message is often times lost. How do you avoid making a mistake of not understanding your audience? Not to worry, it's not as difficult as you think. You'll be confident in clicking with your audience and won't be worried about them leaving the meeting with any less understanding then when they came in. In this free instructional video series, let a communications and public speaking expert show you how to establish a good rapport with an audience. She discusses how to identify an audience so you know how to connect with them. She talks about the importance of being positive and confident and how both are crucial to getting on the same page as the group you are speaking to. Finally, she explains the importance of using unbiased words and not using offensive words. You'll learn how to establish a great relationship with an audience in this step-by-step video and gain more confidence in you ability to get your point understood.

Video Transcript

"Hi there, I'm Tracy Goodwin, and I'm the red sweater lady, and today we're going to be talking about how to establish a good relationship with your audience. Now this is talking about public speaking here. You are the speaker. Perhaps you are in a college speech class and you've been assigned a speech. Maybe this is in the business world, you have to make a presentation. Whatever the scenario, it's very important for you, the speaker, to establish a good relationship with your audience for a lot of reasons. If you establish a good relationship with your audience they'll be much more willing to listen to what you have to say, to consider what you have to say, to respond nonverbally to what you have to say, and all of those things will make you more comfortable as a speaker, and if you're more comfortable then you're going to do a much better job presenting your information as a public speaker. So there's some real easy tips to follow, that can start you right off, up front, establishing that good relationship. So let's get started."