Understanding your audience
Featured in the Advanced Presentation Techniques training manual
By Clare Forrest & Margaret Zuppinger
Category: Meetings and Presentations
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity features challenges with real audiences that have been experience by participants. Participants are encouraged to see these challenges from different perspectives, thus gaining new insights into what happened and how they change their approach for the future.
You open this training activity by introducing the participants to the idea of perceptual positions. The participants then work in pairs to explore a presentation that they were unhappy with by examining it from the three perceptions of Self, Other and Observer. When each participant has experienced their chosen situation from each perspective, their partner gives them feedback from the notes they made during the exercise. Then the participants come together to share their thoughts and experiences. Finally, you ask the participants to write down the key insights they have gained and how they will use them in future presentations. You close the training activity with some fitting words on perception by Albert Einstein.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to let participants into the secrets of understanding their audiences through a visualisation strategy.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 6 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 15 |
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Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers for communication skills, equal opportunities awareness, feedback, leadership, planning and research, presentation skills, stress management, and working with others programmes. It can also be adapted for one-to-one coaching.
Download the training activity, Understanding your audience as featured in the Fenman training manual; Advanced Presentation Techniques