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27th March 2009 at 11:36

How to get audience agreement everytime

In 5 years of speaking and 11 years of coaching this wee trick has pretty much never failed me – and it’s so stupidly simple.

Let’s say to prove a point you wanted to ask a group of small business owners if they find running their own business quite a lonely thing to do – it should be a homerun – everyone should agree. There’s two ways you could ask the audience:

The first, and most commonly used technique is to say, “By a show of hands, how many of you find running your own business a lonely affair?”.

You’ll get a scattering of hands raised which kinda takes the wind out of your sail. I see this frustrate presenters all the time.

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Our method is to ask , “Hands up those of you that don’t find running your own business a lonely affair.” If you get one hand raised I’ll be surprised.

Basically, if people can avoid stepping out they will, and it’s amazing how often audiences lie by not raising their hands to obvious questions.

Avoid this by always asking questions where the answer you’re looking for relies on keeping your hands down.

I told you it was simple, but don’t take my word for it, ask your audience…!

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