There are many ways that a person can use eye contact to make a presentation become more effective.
As we saw in the video, here are some points listed by Sheri Jeavons.- Eye contact reduces nervousness
- Connect with one person for a thought. This can then help you:
- Gather thoughts
- Think clearly
- Help remember what to say
- Avoid jumping eyes
Eye contact can also be used for you to determine if the audience is understanding what you are presenting. If they do, then you would continue. If they don’t, you can explain it with a different example.
Eye contact can help you to better control the room when you are presenting, because it allows you to remove the nerves and helps you to feel more comfortable in the environment. This will then help you to deliver a more effective presentation.Remember, try not to let your eye contact get too awkward with the audience so they don't feel like it is a staring contest!
WHAT DO YOU THINK:
- Do you agree with how effective eye contact can be? Any negative thoughts?
Jeavons, S. (Director). (N.D.). Effective Presentation Skills: Using Eye Contact to Connect with Your Audience [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZfqCBUpOs
After reading this blog and thinkig about presentations that I've seen, eye contact really is one of the key components to a presentation. I feel motivated to listen and participate to a presentation when the presenter(s) keep eue contact with me.
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DeleteExperience speakers utilize eye contact to stay in tune with the audience, and as you said, it does motivate you to pay more attention to the presentation. Thank you for your feedback and I hope you enjoy my blog.
Thanks,
Dillon.
Eye contact can get quite awkward, especially if it's a different audience. But generally speaking, I highly agree with this blog. Eye contact could tell you how the audience is feeling and it would inform you if you need to further explain yourself more, or just change the way you're preforming in general. I feel like I will present more efficiently after understand how important eye contact is.
ReplyDeleteHello Sb,
DeleteThank you for you comment! Eye contact can get awkward if you continue to look at the same person over and over. The best remedy is to follow the key points that Sheri Jeavons outlines in the video. The last thing you want to be doing is making you audience feel uncomfortable.
Dillon.
My goodness, eye contact is so important! That is true, sb, it can get awkward depending on who you're taking to, but otherwise eye contact makes you as a speaker seem more confident about what you're talking about.
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