The Critical Way to Begin a Presentation

Do you know how long it takes to get an audience on your side?

It's not very long. In fact, audiences make decisions about your credibility, believability and likability within the first 30-60 seconds. If you're visible before you speak, if, say, you're sitting on stage waiting to be introduced or greeting audience members beforehand, these decisions start even sooner.

More than anything else at those times and your actual performance, it's your physical presence that audience members are responding to most viscerally. And we all know that impressions based on body language and displayed physicality can be powerful.

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