Comments on: Make Eye Contact to Engage Your Audience http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm Free tips & advice to enhance your presentation skills Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:34:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jane Brocklebank http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm/comment-page-1#comment-185 Jane Brocklebank Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:02:37 +0000 http://www.presentation-skills.biz/?p=389#comment-185 It definitely makes a positive difference. The difficult thing is to keep the eye contact moving around the room, and not to keep returning just to the friendly, engaged faces that you see! I love the practising to an empty room idea to combat this. It definitely makes a positive difference. The difficult thing is to keep the eye contact moving around the room, and not to keep returning just to the friendly, engaged faces that you see! I love the practising to an empty room idea to combat this.

]]> By: Midori Connolly http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm/comment-page-1#comment-175 Midori Connolly Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:33:10 +0000 http://www.presentation-skills.biz/?p=389#comment-175 Good, solid skill that more people should practice. Jim - I've become far more comfortable in front of an audience since I've started seeking those inquisitive, friendly faces and going back to them. I can't imagine not looking at people while talking...and remember, that's all you're doing is talking with some people (just more than you're used to). It can also help to encourage far more two-way conversation. Ask questions and ask the audience to contribute. It helps lessen the feeling of all eyes on you - and your audience will thank you too!! :-) Midori Connolly, Chief AVGirl Good, solid skill that more people should practice.
Jim – I’ve become far more comfortable in front of an audience since I’ve started seeking those inquisitive, friendly faces and going back to them. I can’t imagine not looking at people while talking…and remember, that’s all you’re doing is talking with some people (just more than you’re used to).
It can also help to encourage far more two-way conversation. Ask questions and ask the audience to contribute. It helps lessen the feeling of all eyes on you – and your audience will thank you too!! :-)
Midori Connolly, Chief AVGirl

]]> By: nimia_a http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm/comment-page-1#comment-172 nimia_a Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:36:02 +0000 http://www.presentation-skills.biz/?p=389#comment-172 Yes, if you have an eye contact with your audience they can see that you are sincere in everything you are saying. your friend, nimia_a Yes, if you have an eye contact with your audience they can see that you are sincere in everything you are saying.

your friend,

nimia_a

]]> By: Jim http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm/comment-page-1#comment-170 Jim Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:31:43 +0000 http://www.presentation-skills.biz/?p=389#comment-170 This is a very good post, but for some of us it's hard to put it into practice. The class in college I dreaded the most was oral communications. I got an A in the class, but was shaking and stuttering in all my speeches. It's a skill I haven't mastered yet, but I've heard this before and try to use your ideas above in team meetings at work, or in social gatherings. Sometimes if a speaker or person in a small group doesn't look at you or anyone in the group, you wonder if they really care. This is a very good post, but for some of us it’s hard to put it into practice. The class in college I dreaded the most was oral communications. I got an A in the class, but was shaking and stuttering in all my speeches. It’s a skill I haven’t mastered yet, but I’ve heard this before and try to use your ideas above in team meetings at work, or in social gatherings.

Sometimes if a speaker or person in a small group doesn’t look at you or anyone in the group, you wonder if they really care.

]]> By: Dale http://www.presentation-skills.biz/presentation-delivery/make-eye-contact-to-engage-your-audience.htm/comment-page-1#comment-169 Dale Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:32:50 +0000 http://www.presentation-skills.biz/?p=389#comment-169 When I preform I find making contact makes a connect. I'm a professional balloon artist many people comment that I will look at them and not my hands. I would rather look somebody in the face, it helps make a connect between you and your audience. When I preform I find making contact makes a connect. I’m a professional balloon artist many people comment that I will look at them and not my hands. I would rather look somebody in the face, it helps make a connect between you and your audience.

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