Digital Key Concepts Management 102 Professor Estenson

1. Digital Key ConceptsManagement 102Professor Estenson Chapter 11 Informative Presentations

2. Informative Presentations • Goal: • Promote understanding of an idea or facts.

3. High Quality Presentations • Truthful, hones and fair • Avoids embellishments • Express ideas clearly and understandably • Objective facts used to support views • Uses tact • Effective use of visual aids

4. Tools • Definition- clearly defines what a thing is using comparison or contrast • Description- vivid detail using simile (as or like a…..) or metaphor much stronger than a simile • Explanation- answer questions about how, what and why something is happening • Narration- an illustrative story

5. Preparation • Step One • Know your audience (size, group’s views of the subject, age, occupations, economic status, interests and knowledge of subject • Step Two • Know the topic your are to speak on well before speaking • Step Three • Write down the exact purpose of your presentation • Step Four • Plan in detail • Main points • Method or organization • Expand your thinking (mind mapsor story boards) • Visual aids • Step Five • Write introduction and Conclusion • Step Six • Practice, Practice and Practice

6. More on Main Points • Organization Options • Topical Pattern. List from most important to least • Obtain senior management support • Budget preparation • Implementation • Spatial ( geographic) • Chronological • Casual (if-then will happen)

7. Your Opening and Closing • Capture attention • Use humor with a great deal of caution • You want to maintain authority • Show benefit of listening • Close with a final attention getting statement

8. Delivery • Memorize (Difficult to do well) • Extemporaneously with notes • Visual Aids (power point, flip charts) • Manuscript ( hard to do well) • Impromptu • Appear confident • Use background statements • Use “because” to support your views”