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Vital Visuals
Stimulate the Response you Desire and Perform in the Knowledge you have Prepared...
Verbal humour - nothing outrageous required - just point out the simple things such as the weather...
 Verbal humour is a powerful way of developing and maintaining group rapport. Using humour to create laughter within the first five minutes is an important landmark.
Making people laugh is not a matter of telling jokes. Do not tell jokes unless you're sure you can do it with timing and congruence. A joke that falls flat stays down and can often take you with it. And being in front of an audience is a lonely and empty place when the joke falls flat.
Stand up comics will tell you how difficult it is to try to make people laugh with jokes. 'Fun' is not the same as 'funny'. Often all you need to do to raise a smile is point out the odd aspect of something quite mundane, such as the rain outside and then link it to how wet your cat became during a mouse hunting expedition on Sunday. People want and enjoy a laugh. Invite it and it will happen every time.
Pictures
Pictures paint a thousand words,
need I say more!
Be aware of jargon - know when to use it and when not too, trust is created and can be destroyed in this element of presenting...
Over use of jargon with an audience who are not interested in the technical element will develop resentfulness, and destroy any chance of developing trust between presenter and audience.
Under use of jargon or technical language with an audience who are experts in the field will equally have the same affect, they want to know that you know what you are talking about, and they will make that judgement from your technical language ability.
The rule with jargon is avoid it... Unless you are in a specialised field and the presentation consists of specialist vocabulary. |