Many people tell me they have a ‘tipping point’ when it comes to the size of the audience they’re presenting to. I constantly hear things like “I’m OK when there are 20 in the room – but, when there are 40, that’s when I shake like you wouldn’t believe”.

Try to be very rational here. Any audience starts with just one person. Then you add one, then one more, then another one, and another. Do you see? It’s actually a collection of individuals. Each individual just happens to be in the same room as another, plus another etc., etc.

When you master this concept then your behaviours will modify to let the audience (of, say, 600) know that you regard each of them as an individual – and they’ll love you for it!

Paul Griffiths

www.reasontospeak.com