Giving Effective Everyday Presentations
Adapting to Supportive/Open, Indifferent/Ambivalent, and Opposed/Hostile Listeners. Public Speaking as Presentation
2020 · 224 pages
Adapting to Supportive/Open, Indifferent/Ambivalent, and Opposed/Hostile Listeners. Public Speaking as Presentation
2020 · 224 pages
This book is designed both for people experienced in making presentations who seek to improve the impact and effectiveness of their presentations, and for people with less experience who seek guidance and advice on how to give effective presentations. Our approach to helping improve your effectiveness in giving presentations is based on an understanding of how adults learn. We know adults are self-motivated (seek to improve); like to partner in their learning (not be told what to do); are problem-oriented (how can I influence my listeners?); have an inventory of life-experiences that can be incorporated into presentational story-telling; know their deficiencies; and want to immediately apply what they learn. In our professional experiences in academia as well as consulting experiences with other professionals and organizations we found one of the most significant problems was that people failed to deliver the right presentation to the right people. We designed this book to help professionals correct this problem by providing them with a framework from which to build effective presentations as well as an assortment of strategies to employ that fit both the person and the context.Your listeners are generally going to fall into one of three general types of listeners: 1. Supportive/Open Listeners who are positively predisposed to you and your message or at least willing to listen to what you have to say.2. Indifferent/Ambivalent Listeners might lack interest or knowledge about your message or have some knowledge but can't decide if their position.3. Opposed/Hostile Listeners hold views that contradict and challenge you and your message and might reach the level of hostile responses. After an extensive discussion about the nature and variation of each of these three types of listeners we provide you with a variety of strategies and guidelines on how to best develop and make your presentation. Our disenchantment with how public speaking was traditionally taught led us to examine the actual environment in which people give speeches. We realized that most of the time people weren’t really giving speeches, they were making presentations. They were making presentations almost every day of the professional lives and yet had never really received the resources and teaching on how to make effective everyday presentations. We drew from our experience as teachers, researchers, and consultants to create a grounded approach to making effective presentations.
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