Connor opened his presentation to an audience of business owners with this statement: If you want to reduce employee benefit costs by at least 15 percent without hurting employee morale or impacting your work environment, please stand up right now. By asking them to stand, Connor is
capturing listeners attention and getting them involved

capturing listeners attention and getting them involved

Explanation:

for you to captivate your audiences or listeners to focus on you and listen to what you have to tell, sell or pass across matters a lot. the beginning of every speech matters a lot. it can boost the mind of your audience if well structured or pass across and it can kill their moral if not well informed.  the start point of every speech or public speaking is usually a with a short word, a quote, a speech, story telling, phrase( a bang) a word that hits your audience directly.. this various method above will help you capture your audience and draws all their attention to you.

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