Exam 12: Developing Oral and Online Presentations

Aaron is preparing a presentation for his organization and he has been asked to analyze the situation thoroughly before embarking on the presentation.To be able to adjust his message and delivery he needs to focus on ________.

Transitions for both short and long presentations are equally important.

If you are having fears,you should ________.

Whenever you're up against a time or space constraint,try to view it as a creative challenge and ________.

A line of communication created by people in an audience to connect with others inside or outside the room,with or without the knowledge of the speaker,akin to texting with your classmates or live-blogging during a lecture,is generally known as the ________.

To avoid struggling to get your main idea across to the audience,you should ________.

For the ________ of the presentation,be prepared to explain the who,what,when,where,why,and how of your subject.

Describe ten suggestions for becoming a more confident speaker.

Oral presentations,delivered in person or online,offer important opportunities to put all your ________ skills on display.

List and briefly describe the stages that should be included in the presentation outline.

________ can increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent,and it can enhance learning and improve retention by more than 75 percent.

Derrick knows that visuals for presentations need to be simpler than visuals for printed documents.Therefore,when he is creating his presentation,he should ________.

To connect with an audience,you must remove the many ________ that could interfere with the link between you and your audience.

You can take control of the apprehension surrounding presentations by ________.

Well-designed ________ overcome the drawbacks of the alternative approach by providing complementary information through textual and visual means,limiting the amount of information delivered at any one time to prevent cognitive overload,and helping viewers process information by identifying priorities and connections.

When people advise speakers to "stop worrying about being perfect" or that "everyone makes mistakes," they are ________.

Many presentation experts would argue that ________.

Organize short presentations as you would a report or proposal.

Many of the transition effects available are little more than distractions and are best avoided.

Dave's last presentation to the Board of Directors flopped miserably.He isn't sure why exactly.The information was interesting and should have been more relevant to the audience. Midway through Dave noticed people were texting,doodling,even yawning.What would you suggest to Dave to improve the introduction portion of a presentation? In other words,explain the three things that an effective speech introduction should do.