Answer to Question #220854 in English for Apex Daniel

Question

The audience dynamics is pivotal to effectiveness of a public speaker on any given topic. In four- bullet points, show what in the speaker/ delivery are directly affected by audience characterization.

Answer 1

1. Confidence- a restless audience with background noise makes the speaker to loose confidence and unable to manage the podium. Content delivery is affected.
2. The audience's body language- The speaker should be able to read and understand the audience body language. The speaker uses this to adjust the speech to meet the needs of the audience and to retain their attention.
3. Relevance of the information- when the audience have nothing or little in common to the information shared by the speaker, they shift attention or even walk out of the speaker, with no audience, communication is not effective.
4. Information overload on the audience- beyond the span of audience concentration, any other information is overload to the audience which leads to ineffective communication.