Sitting in a training class, I found myself starting to wonder about the point of the class. We had an agenda, workbooks, and trainers but the point was slipping away. You could see the attention of the audience slip and the trainers begin to go on to autopilot. What was one thing that the trainers could have done to get our attention from the start and keep it through the two days of training?

Do you want to know a sure fire way to alienate large portions of your audience?
“You all know the next speaker…”

Why don’t you practice your speeches more?