Lecture Six

Oral PresentationsChapter Fifteen

PRESENTATION BASICS

• WHY ARE YOU GIVING PRESENTATION

• TO WHOM ARE YOU SPEAKING

• WHERE WILL PRESENTATION BE GIVEN

• WHEN WILL PRESENTATION BE GIVEN

• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE• Determine audience knowledge, attitudes, likes

and dislikes• Use check sheet on pages 329 - 330• Visit audience work sites.• Read articles written about the audience.• Interview a number of the people who will be in

the audience.• Arrive early and mix with the audience.• Determine length (maximum attention 20 -30

minutes

CONSTRUCTION BASICS

• INTRODUCTION– Tell them what you are going to tell them– Relate subject to audience

• BODY– Tell them– Support each main idea with sub points support each

sub point• CONCLUSION

– Tell them what you told them– Relate subject to audience– Establish Goodwill

EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTIONS

• Open with a clear statement of purpose• Avoid humor or trite remarks• Avoid apologies• DO

– Use a startling or shocking statement– Present a hypothetical statement– Use historical events– Ask a question or questions– Refer to a current event– Use a quotation

PACKAGING INFORMATION

• COMPARISON• DEFINITIONS• EXAMPLES• ILLUSTRATIONS

(More Detailed Than Examples

• STATISTICS• STORIES• TESTIMONY

PERSUASIVE PRESENTATIONS

• PRESENTATION PATTERN– Scientific/Problem

Solving• Define the Problem• Examine Cause and

Effects• Enumerate and

Evaluate Options• Recommend

PERSUASIVE PRESENTATIONS (2)

• STATE THE CASE– Introduction– Thesis Statement– Supporting Contentions– Close

• Reiterating Proposition• PSYCHOLOGICAL-

PROGRESSIVE – Arouse,

Dissatisfy,Gratify,Picture,Move

PERSUASIVE VARIABLES

• SOURCE– Competence, Trustworthiness, Education, Occupation,

Experience, Likability, Similarity, Gender.• MESSAGE

– Indirect or Explicit– Refute Arguments– Provide Concrete Examples

• CONTEXT– Importance, Recency, Media, Persistence

INFORMATIONAL MESSAGES

• ARRANGEMENT OF INFORMATION– CHRONOLOGICAL– SPATIAL– TOPICAL– CLASSIFICATION– SEQUENTIAL– PROBLEM/ SOLUTION– COMPARATIVE– ADVANTAGES/

DISADVANTAGES– CAUSE/EFFECT

VISUAL SUPPORT

• CHARTS AND GRAPHS• VIDEO • ELECTRONIC MEETINGS• OVERHEADS• COMPUTER GENERATED GRAPHICS• SLIDES• FLIP CHARTS

PRESENTATION BASICS

• NOTE CARDS– Don’t Read– Use 5 x 7 or 4 x 6– Don’t Try to Hide Them

• TIME• STAND UP STRAIGHT• MOVE• GESTURE• USE APPROPRIATE VOICE• DEAL WITH QUESTIONS (Page 213)• PRACTICE• CLEAR CLOSE (Brief Summary of Points)

SHOW TIME

• WARM UP• MAKE A STRONG POSITIVE

ENTRANCE• ESTABLISH CONTACT • WORK ON WARMTH AND

SPONTANEITY• CLOSE STRONG AND CORDIAL