To Be Effective, Spark Curiosity, Interact and Help Them Experience Your Message.

This photo captures the best way to engage an audience. The entertainer connected with the audience member. He aroused the child’s curiosity. He’d been spinning plates, saw the child watching, and invited him to play. They shared laughter and fun. But things didn’t stop there. The entertainer got the kid into the act too.

He started the plates spinning but then handed the trick off so the child could experience that wonder and skill. It takes a stillness and minute adjustments of body and mind to keep plates spinning. The child would never have known that if he hadn’t tried it. He had to experience it to understand it. And then he made the magic on his own.

You can do the same thing when you speak to an audience. Engage them. Interact with and teach them. And then help them experience the magic of your words.

That’s the best way we learn. We need to see it, hear it, and experience it. If you give your audience the opportunity to go through all three, you’ll succeed at getting your message to them. And that, after all, is the magic of public speaking.

How do you learn best? What magic inspires you to share your story? Comment below.