The document discusses the importance of making eye contact when presenting to an audience. It notes that people may avoid eye contact because they are disinterested, sleepy, talking to others, on their phone, or looking elsewhere. The document recommends sweeping your gaze across all participants without holding eye contact too long with any one person. Maintaining eye contact shows the presenter is comfortable, confident, and connected with the audience and material. Proper eye contact conveys that the presenter is comfortable, confident in their knowledge, and open to audience feedback and ideas. It suggests practicing eye contact in the presentation space before others arrive.

1. Eye contact

2. Some

3. Look at the while

4. Look the heads
of audience/ participants

5. So why do people do it?

6. • Being Disinterested
• Being Sleepy
• Talking among
themselves
• Being busy on mobiles
• Looking at us

7. Better

8. Use these types of eye contact
Definitely make

10. • Sweep your gaze across all participants.
• Don’t hold the gaze of any one participant.
• Cover the audience from front to back
• Alternate with side to side

12. • Hold their gaze for a few seconds
• Move to another participant – hold gaze
• Zoom out to the entire group
• Repeat after a few minutes or while making
an important point

14. • Look at the participants in no particular
order
• Don’t hold the gaze for more than 1-2 seconds

15. why you must make
It shows that you are
• Comfortable
• Confident
• Connected

16. Eye contact shows that you are
• Comfortable with the content
• Comfortable with the audience
• Comfortable with the knowledge

17. Eye contact shows that you are
• Confident about the knowledge
• Confident of being able to answer any doubts

18. Eye contact shows that you are
• Happy to connect with your audience
• Open to their points of views and thoughts
• Not closed to their ideas

19. • Reach the venue a few minutes early
• Stand in the space you will stand for the
presentation
• Look at the empty room
• Practice your opening sentences
• Drink a sip of water just before you start

20. All the Best