When planting points an audience doesn’t want to hear, try veering off to the side and then circling back. Here’s How:  Rather than plowing straight ahead, first use a seemingly unrelated example to get the audience to buy into the underlying concept. Then circle back...

When the speaker said "We were in a pickle, so we threw a Hail Mary pass", most of the audience understood that he had been in a difficult situation and took desperate measures in the hope of an unlikely success. The problem is that a third of the audience was from...