4 types of Audience for your Speech

in speaking with different audiences you're going to come across broadly speaking four categories of attitude towards you the audience will be in one of these four they'll be hostile friendly apathetic or uninformed now each of these requires a different approach in order to to reach them and be able to cause a change to

them in the case of a hostile audience perhaps the best hope you have is getting out of their align life so with a hostile audience the key is to separate your role as a spokesman and as a human being and to speak about what your your message as a spokesman and what you feel as a human being so I can

feel what you feel I know this is worrying for you as a person I also have kids but as a spokesman I understand that this is the message so dealing with a hostile audience it's often powerful to separate out my role as a human being and my role as the speak speaking a message for an

organization with a friendly audience a friendly audience are already on your side what you need to do is unite them give them a sense of even more strong connection so if you're speaking to a group of Barcelona supporters the objective is to give them a sense of community of Greater connection between themselves with an apathetic audience I

imagine here speaking to a group of 14y olds in high school an apathetic audience don't believe that you have anything relevant to say to them so before you go anywhere you need to give them what benefits there are for them in listening to you and show them there's something from your life experience

there's something in your speech that's going to connect to their reality and until they believe that there's a benefit to them in what you're saying there's something in your life that connects to their reality they're not going to engage so with an apathetic audience you need to give them what they're going to get from this that's