Exam 12: Developing Oral and Online Presentations

Cameron is preparing to present his views to a possibly "hostile" audience. Your advice to him would be to ________.

Transition slides help your audience keep track of what you've covered already and what you plan to cover next.

When you're speaking to high-ranking executives in your company, the ________ period will often consume most of the time allotted for your presentation.

If you're using conventional structured slides, you can figure on ________ minutes per slide as a rough guide.

Which of the following is important when giving presentations online?

How would the usage of design elements in your presentation differ when presenting to a supportive audience versus a hostile audience?

Visuals for presentations need to be simpler than visuals for printed documents.

Speaking from notes, with the help of an outline, note cards, or visuals, is usually not the most effective or easiest delivery mode. Memorization is.

In a presentation, ________ control how one slide replaces another, such as having the current slide gently fade out before the next slide fades in.

Jasmine is giving a presentation to an angry group of investors. She is quite sure that during the Q&A round at least some of them will ask hostile questions. In this situation, Jasmine should ________.

List and briefly describe the stages that should be included in the presentation outline.

Jeremy is all set to give his presentation in a couple of days, but he is really nervous and about to lose sleep over it. ________ is the best antidote for anxiety that will give him confidence and help him overcome glitches.

To connect with an audience, you must remove the many ________ that could interfere with the link between you and your audience.

You have been invited to speak at a seminar on the importance of networking online. Before giving your presentation, you decide to post the main points of your presentation on your company blog and encourage comments. Which of the following actions will be most beneficial to both the audience and the presenter?

You can animate just about everything in an electronic presentation, but ________.

The most important way to hold an audience's attention is to use the storytelling technique.

Dave's last presentation to the Board of Directors flopped miserably. He isn't sure why exactly. The information was interesting and should have been more relevant to the audience. Midway through Dave noticed people were texting, doodling, even yawning. What would you suggest to Dave to improve the introduction portion of a presentation? In other words, explain the three things that an effective speech introduction should do.

With oral communication you have to rely primarily on spoken words to link various parts and ideas.

The only sure way to measure the length of your presentation is to ________.

Jennifer is a new employee in your company and has never created a presentation before. To help get her started, she's asked you to describe the four steps to effectively organizing the information.