170 likes | 304 Views
Communication skills i. October 22 nd 2012. Today. Presenting an issue. Work on Task 2 (Part 1). Presenting your issue. Your goal for Pt.1 of task 2 is to: Introduce your issue to the class so everyone will have some knowledge about the issue. Presenting your issue.
E N D
Communication skills i October 22nd 2012
Today • Presenting an issue. • Work on Task 2 (Part 1).
Presenting your issue • Your goal for Pt.1 of task 2 is to: • Introduce your issue to the class so everyone will have some knowledge about the issue.
Presenting your issue • Your goal for Pt.1 of task 2 is to: • REMEMBER: This is NOT the discussion session. • …that will be Part 2
Presenting your issue • Things you should include in your presentation: • 1. A brief summary of the issue. • - What is the issue? • - How did it begin? • - What is the current status of the issue?
Presenting your issue • Things you should include in your presentation: • 2. The significance of the issue. • - Why is it important? • - Who does this issue affect?
Presenting your issue • Things you should include in your presentation: • 3. An explanation of why this issue is important to you.
Presenting your issue • Things you should include in your presentation: • 4. An explanation of why this issue should be important to all of us.
Presenting your issue • Try not to bring your opinion into this too much. • You do not want to decide for the audience. • (This is not a persuasive presentation, • this is an INFORMATIVE presentation).
Presenting your issue • Things you might avoid: • - I strongly think… • - Don’t you agree that…? • - This is stupid… • - This issue is obviously terrible because… • Other forms of ‘strong persuasive’ language.
Presenting your issue • Things you might avoid: • - Your personal opinion on the issue.
Presenting your issue • Avoid ‘strong persuasive’ language. • WHY??
Presenting your issue • Avoid ‘strong persuasive’ language. • WHY?? • You don’t want to tell your audience what to think in this case. • They will decide on the issue themselves.
Presentation skills - Voice began weak. • Distracting behaviors (walking around too much, turned back to audience, too shifty) • “Thank you for listening” don’t use this • Reading from the slides
Information • Too much opinion • Repeated ideas • BIASED • Asked questions.
PowerPoint - colors • Spelling mistakes • Picture in front of text • Too much text • Titles too long on some slides. • Too many animations and slow animations
Your presentations. • Discuss your issue with a partner.