{"id":33,"date":"2009-09-11T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uplift.com\/topdeck\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-06-07T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:32:44","slug":"camilla-carr-on-capturing-your-audiences-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Lead with an anecdote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No joke. Starting your presentation with an anecdote can increase your audience&#8217;s overall comprehension and interest.<\/p>\n<p>A joint study by the Delft University of Technology and Nijmegen University in the Netherlands examined three types of techniques for opening a presentation\/speech:\u00c2\u00a0An anecdote relevant to the topic, an anecdote not relevant to the topic, plowing right into the body of the speech\/presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what she discovered:\u00c2\u00a0 Anecdotes increase the audience&#8217;s level of comprehension and interest while making the presenter more credible. Anecdotes capture interest and makes your audience more attentive. There is a little gained by using a relevant anecdote over a non-relevant one. Both work well in captivating the audience, although a relevant anecdote may result in a slight gain in overall comprehension.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can starting with an anecdote make your presentation more captivating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}