Week 2a, 7 Sins

Today’s Class Presenta(on Sins & Skills:

The Power of Seven

Textbook Reference: Ch. 1

Public Speaking Survey TO DO:

•  Form small groups (5 or 6).

•  Agree on five items that, in your collective opinion, are the most important speaking skills. Rank them.

•  Be prepared to discuss these.

Textbook: p. 16

p. 4

Top-Rated Speaking Skills

Inventio (Invention)

Find the best ideas for a

presentation

Dispositio (Organization)

Arrange your ideas

effectively

Elocutio (Style)

Select effective and

eloquent words

Memoria (Memory)

Think critically and recall ideas and words

Pronunciatio (Delivery)

Perform effectively & impressively

Five Canons of Classical Rhetoric

Aristotle

LOGOS PATHOS ETHOS

The Power Of

Seven Seven Speaking Principles (PACLCOD)

& Seven Presentation Sins

1. Although Evelyn would prefer to read her speech from a well-‐prepared manuscript, she knows that, given the topic, audience, and seHng, it would be more appropriate to use an outline or a limited set of notes.

Logis.cs (+ Delivery)

2. Because Yu worked as a senior engineer on the new dam, he feels confident and qualified to explain its features to a public audience.

Credibility

3. Leanna schedules a staff mee(ng at 10.30am on Tuesday because she wants to make sure her colleagues are alert and focused when she explains the company’s new hiring policy

Logis.cs

4. In order to develop a set of standards for redesigning the company’s website, Jessie downloads key pages from six award-‐winning web sites and conducts phone interviews with the web masters of those sites. Jessie prepares a chart that focuses on the common features of these web sites and presents her findings at a staff mee(ng.

Content

Identify the primary communication element pp. 7-‐9

5. Elsie spends several hours arranging the key ideas and informa(on in an oral report she must present at an upcoming mee(ng. Although she has many other things to do, she wants everyone to be able to understand and follow the key ideas in her report.

Organiza.on

6. Lawrence knows that he will have difficulty pronouncing some of the French words in his classroom book report. He stops by the French department and asks one of the instructors to sound out the pronuncia(on of the difficult words.

Delivery

7. Nicki knows that most audience members won’t change their minds about gun control a]er hearing her presenta(on. Instead, she decides to talk about why she and her colleagues changed their minds about gun control. She will consider her speech a success if the audience leaves respec(ng her posi(on.

Audience


8. Yusu understands that his listeners may misunderstand the way people conduct business in Nigeria. He consults with two of his Canadian colleagues before making a presenta(on to an important group of poten(al clients.

Audience

9. Eric knows that his audience won’t be very interested in listening to his logical arguments about recycling. Instead of sharing sta(s(cs on the need for and benefits of recycling, he decides to tell a funny story about his first research ‘dumpster dives’ and then to describe well-‐known communi(es that transformed their neighbourhoods – physically and socially – by joining forces to recycle.

Content

10. Grace is expected to make a toast at the re(rement dinner of her boss. Most of the people adending the dinner do not know that – despite public appearances that all is well – she and her boss have not got along for many years. Grace hopes she can cra] a toast that highlights the best quali(es of her boss and does not let her interpersonal problems tarnish the re(rement celebra(on.

Purpose


THE MAGIC FORMULA OF BAD PRESENTATIONS

STEP 1 . Create a boring, all-purpose title

Column A Column B Column C

1 ASSESSING 1 STRATEGIC 1 EFFECTIVENESS 2 DEVELOPING 2 ORGANIZATIONAL 2 OPPORTUNITIES 3 STRENGTHENING 3 OPERATIONAL 3 CAPABILITIES 4 IMPROVING 4 STRATEGIC 4 PRIORITIES 5 MANIPULATING 5 ORGANIZATIONAL 5 RESOURCES 6 IN SEARCH OF 6 OPERATIONAL 6 MANAGEMENT 7 IMPLEMENTING 7 STRATEGIC 7 EXCELLENCE 8 NURTURING 8 ORGANIZATIONAL 8 ALTERANTIVES 9  INSTITUIONALIZING 9 OPERATIONAL 9 CHALLENGES 10  REVITALIZING 10 BLAH, BLAH, BLAH 10 COMPETITIVENESS

Select at random one word from each column


STEP 2. Tell the audience how much effort you and your team put into this project

BACKGROUND We’ve working on this project day and night for: (X the appropriate box) days

weeks

months

forever You asked us to: (fill in the title of your presentation)


STEP 3. Tell the audience all the things you did

WHAT WE DID

To familiarize you with all the in-‐depth research we did, let’s list off everyone we interviewed:

Members of the board Division managers

Presidents Regional managers

Execu(ve vice presidents Area managers

Plain vice presidents Sales staff

Junior vice presidents Janitors, security guard


STEP 4. Tell the audience all the places you went

WE TRAVELED TO…

?


STEP 4. Share all the charts we made

ANALYSIS

Sales

1st Qtr

2nd Qtr

3rd Qtr

4th Qtr

Series 1

Series 2

0

5

10

15

No audience will tolerate a BORING presentation

SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF BAD PRESENTATIONS

1. No clear point

2. No audience benefit

3. No clear flow

4. Too detailed

5. Too long

6. No enthusiasm

7. Vague Q&A answers

Know your

destination

Have a Point B

PURPOSE OF TODAY’S CLASS

1.  To iden(fy the seven principles of effec(ve speaking

2.  To understand the most common mistakes of bad business presenta(ons

3.  To know that presenta(ons must have a specific objec(ve (Point B)

HOMEWORK

Watch Ken Robinson’s TED Talk: “Schools Kill Creativity”

We will discuss the presentation in the next class

Daniel

Sticky Note

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Documents

Week 2a, 7 Sins