Please answer following 3 questions after reading Tool Kit 5.1 1. Describe in de
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Please answer following 3 questions after reading Tool Kit 5.1
1. Describe in detail why the Effective Presentation Checklist is significant and/or important to you?
(Present any background or facts that will enable the reader to clearly understand this.)
2. Tell how you have or how you see yourself applying the Tool Kit. You must be specific and give details as to how you did/would apply it and what the results were/could be. Give specific examples of how you have seen this issues play out in your work life. (or personal life where appropriate.)
3. Thinking about this Tool Kit, write a well-thought out reflective statement about how this assignment could influence your personal, academic, and professional leadership and managerial development. In other words, “how will you apply it going forward?
Tool Kit 5.1 The Effective Presentation Checklist
There is a lot to know about persuasive communication and it can rightfully seem overwhelming to try to learn and incorporate it all. Moreover, it is normal to be very nervous prior to a presentation, and that can work against good communication as well. With that in mind, we present the following checklist designed to synthesize the most critical points to consider in preparing to deliver a persuasive presentation. It does not include everything that is important, of course, but if you work through the checklist, our experience is that you will be prepared and confident enough to do your best.
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Answer the question, “Who is this audience and why are they here?”
Eliminate the extraneous—what is my core idea.
Craft your opening and ending.
Get to your recommendations quickly.
Intentionally include as many elements of persuasion and stickiness as you can.
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.
Familiarize yourself with any technology or logistics.
Predict questions and supplement your materials with backup information to address such questions.
When the time comes, be enthusiastic and go win the day.
Explanation / Answer
I don't think that the entire checklist is provided here in the paragraph, but we can still give a lot of examples with what is at hand here. Now I can't help with how this assignment will affect your personal life or how you will apply the findings in your life. That is totally up to you. But yes the easy thing to do is to take a look at the examples, imagine yourself in the same situation, and explain how would you take the same measures as they did. Give a specific event where you have been and a specific topic of presentation that you had to do in front of the audience, doesn't matter if you actually did it or not. Let us go one by one through all the checklist points.
1). Who is this audience and why are they here?”
If you have seen interviews of some famous comedians, these people are the most dependent on their audience. Because many presentors can get away with lack lustre if they influence just a specific person or group of persons of importance to the presentation. But stage performers always need to engage the entirety of the audience. In most of the cases, your audience will have a very common similar trait: such as they all will be families, or college/school students, or young working professionals, or maybe senior citizens. They can be divided on the basis of gender or income group or maybe they are professors with same background. So the content of the presentation should be theoritical or practical, statistical or non-numeric, your attitude in the presentation should be casual or professional, all will depend on your audience.
2). Eliminate the extraneous—what is my core idea.
This is a very general point. Never focus too much on anything other than the core idea. People start judging your expertise on the topic when you start beating around the bush. And once this idea is cultivated, they will think less of you during the entire presentation. Narrating a story to set the backdrop, or including some far fledged examples to explain your point doesn't do any harm, but all of it should very quickly converge to the actual matter.
3). Craft your opening and ending.
The presentation should never ever start with a Powerpoint slide. No matter who the audience is, the first thing you need to do is grab their attention, and if it is done by showing them a slide filled with text, the battle is half lost already. Start speaking before switching on the presentation. So that when the all important slides come up on the screen, everyone is already listening. You can also start with a picture on the screen or a small video and then go on to explain it.
4). Get to your recommendations quickly.
The description of something itself doesn't present the audience with any questions. It is your personal opinion at the end which does. And your presentation can never be unsuccessful if there are a lot of questions asked. Because when prepared neatly, all those questions will be easy to answer and would help the audience to understand quickly. Take the example of a product launch. The audience is very desperate to ask questions because each one has its own personal doubts, maybe due to being from different departments of a buisness. So its wise to not lecture them a lot, quickly give some major bullet points at the end and let them take over.
5). Familiarize yourself with any technology or logistics.
It would be very embarrassing to let the audience know that you don't even know how to use the projector remote or how to jump from your presentation file to the excel or a video quickly. Tehnology will take you down very easily there. Always make sure you reach well before time, take a look at the area of presentation and the seatings, have all the files loaded properly, so as to avoid any external factor from affecting your presentation adversely.