Audience Engagement Techniques in Oral Presentations

ORCID Identifier(s)

ORCID 0009-0001-1661-3595

Document Type

Article

Source Publication Title

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

First Page

1

Last Page

12

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906231190575

Abstract

Public speaking is often conceptualized as a one-way monologue performed by a speaker for a listening audience. This monologic approach faces challenges and limited results as demonstrated by the education literature on active learning. In response to this research, this practitioner article explores the nature and effective execution of five universal Audience Engagement Techniques that provide opportunities for a speaker to turn their passively listening audience into active participants in a dialogue. Practical and theoretical implications of Audience Engagement Techniques generally are also discussed.

Disciplines

Business and Corporate Communications

Publication Date

Fall 8-31-2023

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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