Break Away From the Podium to
Connect with Your Audience
By Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business
Like many top teaching institutions, Harvard
Business School
invests heavily in training faculty to become dynamic classroom presenters.
Observing the best of them at work is like watching a master actor take command
of the theater. HBS professors rarely stand still, often sprinting from student
to student to tease out insights on a case study. Their hands fly over a
half-dozen blackboards that raise and lower for emphasis. There may be a podium
in the room, but the teacher is not behind it for long. Leaving the podium
behind, getting physically nearer your audience is one key to making sure
you're being listened to. In particular, you want to get within 12 feet of at
least some of your audience, and the closer, the better. Why 12 feet? It's
biology. To read the complete article, please click here.
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