Exam 12: Developing Oral and Online Presentations

If your presentation involves the health, wealth, or happiness of your listeners, most people will be interested, regardless of how you begin.

You have been asked to give a presentation at the company summit regarding the new changes in company policy. Your presentation would follow immediately after a very enthusiastic round of ice-breaker games, so you can expect that your audience is going to be quite distracted. How would you arouse audience interest in your presentation?

As with written communications, analyzing the situation involves defining your purpose and ________.

Yuki has organized her material around conclusions and recommendations because her purpose is to ________ her audience.

Evan has organized his material around conclusions and recommendations because his purpose is to ________ his audience.

Visualizing your success is one of the suggested techniques to overcome anxiety during a presentation. When you do this, you are supposed to visualize yourself ________.

Audiences tend to decide within a few minutes whether you're worth listening to, so establishing your ________ quickly is vital.

Nancy Duarte, whose design firm has years of experience creating presentations for corporations, offers this rule of thumb: for an important one-hour presentation that uses 30 slides, allow at least ________ to research, conceive, create, and practise.

Before ending your presentation, tell listeners that you're about to finish and ________ your theme and supporting evidence.

The most important aspect of any presentation is ________.

Making your presentations contain more information than you think is needed will help you avoid the "death by PowerPoint" stigma that presentations have in the mind of many professionals.

Free-form designs in slides can also create a more dynamic and engaging experience for the audience.

Choose font sizes that are easy to read from anywhere in the room, usually at least ________ points.

One of the most common mistakes beginners make in visual presentations is using ________ text.

The only sure way to measure the length of your presentation is to ________.

Whether or not you can establish ground rules for Q&A depends on the audience and the situation. If you are presenting to________, establish some guidelines such as the number of questions allowed per person and the overall time limit for questions.

Many presentation experts would argue that ________.

Describe ten suggestions for becoming a more confident speaker.

Which of these instances best represents the statement "death by PowerPoint"?

Vikram needs to know if a presentation outline has any other purpose apart from planning his actual speech. Your reply would be that it ________.