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Oh yes, two eyes, we'll have them,
your eyes, very very important for connecting with your audience,
because of the things you can say with your eyes and vice versa
the things you can read from other people from eye contact
who's given a presentation and been scared to look up in case they're all looking at them?
It does happen,
some people, who's been to a presentation where the person talking never really looked up from their feet,
It does happen, difficult, where is the connection there, got to have a connection,
body language, don't know what that means, just do it a lot
the eyes have it, why would eye contact be really important to me, to you, we'll start with you,
why would eye contact be really important to you as an audience?
eye contact with me
yes you're still here, ever had the feeling that half the room could have walked out and the person would still keep talking
no it's, what you're looking for I think is a connection,
you're looking to get some acknowledgement from the,
I'm not talking to you as erm, so much as a group,
but I'm trying to make some kind of connection with each and every one of you at different points,
ok granted a little harder in a large auditorium with 3000 people
you wouldn't be able to make eye contact with each one of those,
however it's erm, I think the important point is what you're getting from me when I make eye contact with you is a connection,
hopefully just long enough, but not so long that the injunction comes out
but just long enough for you to go, yes I think he actually is talking to me,
you know, for that moment I acknowledged you in the room individually not just part of the group,
very important you need to use that with your body language and part of your body language is your eye contact
alright what about the other way round, you already answered it
he said the same thing three times in a row just in slightly different ways, he says, oh I got it the first time,
and I said yeah, Tim what you don't realize is he, you can only see him, he can see all of you,
now if I describe something potentially difficult to grasp, to a group of people, I will look around the room
and will gather straight away that a third of you got it,
but the other two thirds didn't, you know a third of you went uh hu! yeah, and the other two thirds went mmh!
So, you know, unlike a sort of stereotypical Englishman abroad I'm not going to just say it again louder,
what I'm going to do is find another way to say it
and then maybe the second third and we'll get it, and then maybe I'll try just one more time because I want everyone to get it if possible
If anybody's missed it I'll still know because I will still see them at the back going, yeah, well,
maybe we'll get that one at the coffee break you know,
and then I will actually find that person in the coffee break and then, you know, because I know who got it, roughly,
who got it and who didn't
body language, don't know what that means just do it a lot
oh yes, two eyes, we'll have them