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Why you should read the room but not over-read the room

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As a presenter, it’s your job to read the room. But, as this article points out, there are some dangers to over-reading the room. Why?

Dedicating too much of your mental bandwidth to getting far inside the heads of your audience gets you too far back on your heels and distracts you from the task at hand. Plus most of us are terrible mind readers. It’s a given that some audience members will look completely bored, confused or annoyed, even when they are actually anything but. Countless times during my own presentations, I have had a member of the audience, who appeared either totally zoned-out or confused during my presentation, come up to me afterwards and say, “Wow, I found your talk really fascinating!”

When audience members sport a “bitchy resting face” however, it’s hard not to keep looking back in their direction. We do it because we want to make sure that at some point they snapped out of their stupor and became riveted by our performance. Try hard to resist this temptation. Once I’ve spotted the handful of audience members who are frozen in a lifeless, lobotomized listening expression, I treat them like a solar eclipse – I never let my eyes drift in their direction again.

Full story at Psychology Today.

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