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Struggling to Engage Your Audience? Be Inclusive

One of the easiest ways to bond with your audience is to use inclusive pronouns like we, our, and us — instead of you and your. I often use inclusive language when telling my students about upcoming speech assignments.

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Make Your Speech All about the Audience

The key to delivering a successful speech is showing your audience members that you care about them. You don’t want listeners to view you as a salesperson pitching a product. You want them to…

Steven D. Cohen
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How to Recognize & Improve Your Default Public Speaking Settings

Every time you deliver a speech, you are, in fact, leading. Whether you are a student, an executive, a politician, or a professor, you must lead your audience toward a particular objective. Your job…

Steven D. Cohen

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Steven D. Cohen

Struggling to Engage Your Audience? Be Inclusive

Make Your Speech All about the Audience

How to Recognize & Improve Your Default Public Speaking Settings

Harvard Division of Continuing Education