Communications - Chapter 14 Flashcards
What is in Chapter 14?
- Preparing Effective Oral Presentations
- Methods for Organizing an Oral Presentation
- Building Audience Rapport Like a Pro
- Techniques for Gaining and Keeping Audience Attention
- Outlining an Oral Presentation
What else is in Chapter 14?
- Planning Visual Aids, Handouts, and Multimedia Presentations
- Eight Steps to a Powerful Multimedia Presentation
- Polishing Your Delivery and Following Up
- Combating Stage Fright
- Adapting to International and Cross-Cultural Audiences
- Improving Telephone and Voice Mail Skills
How do you Know your purpose in Oral Presentations?
- Decide what you want your audience to believe, remember, or do when you finish.
- Aim all parts of your talk toward your purpose.
Know your purpose.
How do you Organize the introduction in Oral Presentations?
- Capture attention with a promise, startling fact, question, quotation, problem, or story.
- Establish your credibility by identifying your position, expertise, knowledge, or qualifications.
- Preview your main points
How do you Organize the body of your Oral presentation?
- Develop two to four main points.
- Streamline your topic and summarize its principal parts.
- Arrange by one or more of the methods in this chapter.
Give an example of Chronology.
Example: Describe the history of a problem, organized from the first sign of trouble to the present.
Give an example of Geography/space.
Example: Arrange a discussion of the changing demographics of the workforce by regions, such as East Coast, West Coast, and so on.
Give an example of Topic/function/conventional grouping.
Example: Organize a report discussing mishandled airline baggage by the names of airlines.
Give an example of Value/size.
Example: Arrange a report describing fluctuations in housing costs by house value groups (houses that cost $100,000, $200,000, and so on).
Give an example of Journalism pattern.
Example: Explain how identity thieves ruin your good name by discussing who, what, when, where, why, and how.
Give an example of simple/complex.
Example: Organize a report explaining genetic modification of plants by discussing simple seed production, progressing to complex gene introduction.
Give an example of Importance.
Example: Organize from most important to least important the reasons a company should move its headquarters to a specific city.
Give an example of Problem/solution.
Example: Discuss a problem and then discuss its possible solutions.
Give an example of Best case/worst case.
Example: Analyze whether two companies should merge by presenting the best-case result (e.g., improved market share) and worst-case result (e.g., devalued stock).
Give an example of Comparison/contrast (pro/con).
Example: Compare organic farming methods with those of modern industrial farming.