Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Tips to get questions from an audience

Tips to get questions from an audience

Always count to five after asking your attendees for questions (in fact, use the five count technique when you ask for answers from the audience as well.) This gives time for introverts to think of something and respond. Extroverts will blurt it out. There are two times this is most significant:
1.       When you ask for a response for the first time from your attendees you are, in effect, training them to respond. If you jump in to fill that awkward silence they know that you’ll rescue them next time and they will remain silent and passive. Force them to break their silence.
2.      When you have a technical, left-brained, introverted group they are more likely to need that quiet time to think of their answer. Use humor. Say, “No one likes to ask the first question, who would like to ask the second?”

Patti Wood MA, CSP
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