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Chapter 19
Making Oral
Presentations

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Chapter 19 Learning Objectives







LO 19-1 Identify purposes of presentations
LO 19-2 Plan strategy for presentations
LO 19-3 Organize effective presentations
LO 19-4 Plan visuals for presentations
LO 19-5 Deliver effective presentations
LO 19-6 Handle questions during presentations

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Purposes in Oral Presentation


Guides choice of strategy and content





Informative—inform or teach audience
Persuasive—motivate audience to act or
believe
Goodwill—entertain and validate audience

Make purpose as specific as possible
 Not introduction


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Planning Presentation Strategy
 Simplify details, visuals, words, and
sentences
 Make it simpler than written message to
same audience
 Analyze audience as you do for written
message and adapt accordingly
 Think about physical conditions in which
you’ll speak

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Choosing the Kind of Presentation
Monologue—presenter speaks without
interruption

 Guided discussion—







Speaker presents issues audience agreed
to earlier
Presenter serves as facilitator, tapping
audience knowledge

Interactive—a conversation, like sales
presentations
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Adapting to Your Audience
 Don’t seek major opinion
change in one
presentation
 Make ideas relevant to
audience by linking what
you say to their interests
 Show audience that
topic affects them
directly
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Choosing Information






Select information that is interesting and
persuasive to audience
Plan to answer audience’s questions and
objections
Limit to three main points
Show relationship between main points
Link points to audience’s knowledge
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Planning Strong Opening & Closing
Positions of emphasis
 Interest audience and emphasize key
points
 Memorize opener and closer
 Strong opener patterns:


 Startling

statement
 Narration or anecdote

 Question
 Quotation
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Five Organization Patterns






Chronological
Problem-causes-solution
Pro-con
1-2-3
Excluding alternatives

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Planning Visuals
 Create professional image and strong
impact
 Help the audience remember your
points
 Can serve as an outline for your talk

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Designing PowerPoint Slides






Use a big font
Use bullet-point phrases, not sentences
Use clear, concise language
Make only three to five points per slide
Customize your slides

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Designing Prezi
Consider many of the design tips on the
last slide
 Display hierarchies and spatial
relationships
 Use zooming and panning with restraint


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Delivering an Effective Presentation
 Dealing with fear

 Using eye contact
 Developing a good
speaking voice
 Standing and gesturing
 Using notes and visuals
 Involving your audience
 Practicing
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Handling Questions







Anticipate questions; prepare to answer
them
Tell audience early how you’ll handle them
Don’t nod or say That’s a good question!,
unless you say it every time
Repeat question before you answer
Link answer to purpose and points made
Reword hostile or biased questions
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Giving Team Presentations








Introduce each group member
Pay close attention to other members
when they present
Plan transitions
Enforce time limits strictly
Coordinate visuals for coherence
Practice, practice, practice!
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