Entertainer Bob Hope's Great Lesson About Audiences

in #motivation7 years ago (edited)

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Possibly you have had the experience of speaking to an audience that was much smaller than you anticipated and hoped for. You saw more spaces than faces!

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How you react to the situation will impact your effectiveness. So let's consider how entertainer Bob Hope treated a very small audience.

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That's Bob on the left, in one of his many movies. Additionally, we remember Bob for his patriotic performances for U.S. soldiers, sailors, and airmen during wartime. That leads me to tell you about one of his appearances in New Guinea.

COLONEL GRAHAM'S STORY ABOUT BOB HOPE
Watch my brief video about what Bob Hope and his sidekick Jerry Colonna did after one of their shows for America's troops.

ADOPT BOB HOPE'S AUDIENCE RESPECT
Bob Hope gave us the ideal attitude. Consider every audience great, regardless of size.

Give an audience of 2 the same energy you'd give an audience of 2,000.

UPVOTE AND RESTEEM
If you benefited from the viewpoint that Bob Hope and I share about audiences, I'll be very grateful for your Upvote and Resteem.

Thanks for taking your Steemit time to visit with me today!

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It's very important to not only treat a small audience as you would a large one but also to treat individual clients with the same respect as well :)

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