Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
How do professional speakers tell if the audience is bored? They simply need to pay attention. They are, after all, in the same room facing the audience.
If you look out at your audience and they look bored, you’re boring them.
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PS. A cyber audience is even more challenging.
Today is gonna be just like yesterday, isn’t it? Same old same old. What a huge blessing that today will just be more of the same. Yesterday was such an amazing gift to unpack and share with the rest of the world. Yesterday…an email excerpt from a childhood friend:
“…(her daughter) said she thinks it’s because your intentions are good. You don’t have some hidden agenda. You WANT to understand what people see and how they think.”
Insight: I respectfully disagreed with Lorie’s blog post comment (in which she respectfully disagreed with my me) – the quote above reveals how important intent is.
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Am I boring?
Scary thought. Sometimes I’m convinced I am. Know how I can tell?
Soon after I became a professional speaker a decade ago, a wise person told me, “Jeff, if you look out at your audience, and they looked bored, you’re boring them”. I’ve never forgotten that wisdom.
At risk every single day – failing them and boring them. The two mortal sins public speakers commit most often.
Want the good news?
I don’t do it nearly as frequently as I used to. Plus, I’ve also learned to recognize and react more effectively.
So, may I please ask you a question? Are you boring?
Want to test yourself?
Read your LinkedIn profile and ask yourself, “Is this something that captures attention and motivates the reader to read. Or, is it like so many others that people don’t even bother”?
At the core of this is your intent for using LinkedIn, in my opinion.
It’s tough out there. If you don’t figure it out, who will? Carpe diem, jungle jeff