As Valentine's Day approaches, here are five specific strategies that presenters may wish to employ during their next presentation to boost their audience's engagement and perhaps even have their audience fall in love with them.

1. 5 Ways to
With Your Audience

2. Provide Fresh Content

3. Are you giving your
audience new content… or
just finding different ways
to present content they
already know?

4. Finding something new
or surprising can add
zest and excitement to a
seemingly stale topic.

5. Fresh Visuals

6. Go ahead and use
PowerPoint… as long as
you use it correctly.

7. Go ahead and use
PowerPoint… as long as
you use it correctly.

8. Go ahead and use
PowerPoint… as long as
you use it correctly.

9. Involve Them

10. Give them a poll
question and let
them use their
smart phones to
respond*…

11. …or review key concepts with
Jeopardy*…

12. …or just ask them a question
instead of always bestowing your
wisdom upon them.

13. Try the Boomerang

14. You don’t always need
to answer your
audience’s questions...

15. …throw the audience’s
questions back at them
and see what other
attendees have to say.

16. Keep the Learning Going

17. Art Kohn says*...
Your audience will forget 70% of what
you learned today before they go to
bed tonight… if you want them to
remember your content, you need to
give them “learning boosts.”

18. Just kidding. It’s not just
Art who says that…
…it’s actually what 100
years of brain research
says.

19. Your audience will need a
helping hand after your
session.

20. Leverage technology (email, online
applications, etc.) to continue to
remind them of key concepts in the
days and weeks following your
presentation.

21. If you can
Your audience may say:
I’M
YOURS