- 1). Review the layout of the meeting room and where the participants will be sitting. This will help plan where you will need to be looking as you are presenting.
- 2). Look directly in the eyes of the audience members as you are presenting. Be sensitive to the proper duration for each person. A few seconds are usually enough.
- 3). Move your eyes from one portion of the meeting room to another, every 3 to 5 seconds. Be careful not to let your eyes "ping-pong" back and forth between people or parts of the room; adopt a random pattern.
- 4). Look at the eyes and facial expressions of the audience members in the meeting room. This will cue you in on the reaction to your presentation.
- 5). Keep eye contact with the audience as you are using your visual aids. Speak to the people in the audience, not to the visual aid. For example, avoid turning to view the visual aids. The tendency then becomes to speak to the screen. If you must turn to periodically look, only start speaking when you have turned back to face the audience.
- 6). Avoid a visual obsession with one side of the room to the exclusion of the other.
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