Have you ever had to get up in front of a crowd or a classroom to do a speech and just froze? I sure have. Public speaking is an important task in many businesses. You have to know how to gain and keep your audiences attention. If you do not, you have already lost. Public speaking is not easy and it takes skills that not everyone has, but the most important of all of these, is knowing how to read a room. You may have the perfect speech written, and know every line of it. Great. But what happens when your crowd or class becomes bored to death and half…