Section 5
Helping Your Audience Listen More
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By Boundless
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Boundless Communications
Communications
by Boundless
5 concepts
Read Feedback Cues
Feedback is the verbal and non-verbal responses from an audience which help the speaker modify and regulate what s/he is saying.
Hold the Audience's Attention
To hold the audience's attention, consider their readiness to perceive, the selection of stimuli, and how to maintain current awareness.
Maximize Understanding
To maximize understanding, use general rhetorical strategies and other approaches that build upon the audience's prior experiences.
Build Credibility
Aristotle established three methods of proof to build credibility: initial, derived, and terminal.
Make Messages Easy to Remember
Encoding (or registration), storage, and recollection comprise the three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory.