Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Today we're going to talk about something that will make you stand out from the crowd.

We're diving into how to be an awesome audience member.

Yeah, you heard me right. Not how to speak better to an audience diving into how to be an awesome audience member. Yeah, you heard me right,

not how to speak better to an audience, but how to be a better audience. Stick with me because this is going to be good. Now, I know most of you watching me are probably the big shots,

the ones usually leading the meetings and giving the presentations. Thus, today's episode is going to be one that you're

going to want to love to share with your team and family and church group or others who are

typically in your audience. Today, I want to help them help you out a little bit. Oh, and yes,

I'm also doing this knowing that my team is watching and all of you who find

yourself sitting in my audience on training broadcasts, Q&A's, or on the big screen during our

business masterclass. Let me tell you a story about Alexandria Middlewood, a political science professor

at Wichita State. Poor Galp had to teach one of those hybrid classes during the mess of

2021. Picture this. She's juggling a microphone, PowerPoint slides, lecture notes, and trying to

write on a whiteboard all simultaneously, all while some students are in the room, masks some

unmasked others, and others are just faces on Zoom boxes.

Talk about a circus juggling act, right?

Weeks go by, the strain on Alexandria grows, and she starts losing steam.

Now it's Monday morning, three weeks into the semester.

Alexandria turns from the whiteboard,

her eyes sweeping the room,

the engagement that she hopes for is missing.

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