What qualities of an oral presentation are most important to you as an audience member? Explain your answer.?

Answer 1

There are a few things you can do, some easier than others, to keep an oral presentation engaging.

- Do NOT just read your presentation materials (slides or handouts) to the listeners. If all they are getting is exactly what they could have read on their own, they are going to be bored or irritated. The presentation materials can provide them with a summary or outline, but most of the real content should be coming from you, the presenter.
- Be active. It feels weird at first, but if you keep moving while presenting, making eye contact with different audience members, it is much more engaging than if you stand in one place and drone on. Really think of it as having a discussion with the audience rather than just reciting to them.
- Most people have some sort of default behavior when they are struggling with speaking. "Uh..." "Um..." "you know...". This is a really tough one to fix, but it is worth trying; it will drive an audience nutty to listen to the same "space filler" over and over again. Even if you are just quiet when you are reaching for a word or phrase, that is better than filling the space with these meaningless placeholders.

Hope this helps... I got lucky, and when I was young I got a lot of experience presenting and doing public speaking. Once you get past the initial discomfort, it can actually be sort of fun, and since most people never DO get to that point, if you manage to do so, you have a valuable and scarce skill.

Answer 2

a million. corporation: there's a obviously stated and totally developed thesis. Order of the presentation is logical. 2. seen Presentation: finished, coherent slides. textual content and figures are seen to the target market. 3. Oral Presentation: Speaks with authority. able to be heard and understood. makes use of pointer to spotlight key matters in slides. 4. expertise: Demonstrates a sparkling expertise of the challenge. 5. solutions to Questions: able to respond to all target market questions.

Answer 3

CONTENT that interests me and is set out logically with a conversational tone.

Eye contact so that I 'think' that the speaker is talking to ME

Clear loud voice that enunciates well (do not say 'prolly' when you mean 'probably')

Correct manner for the occasion-dress and comportment (it is one thing for a college pep talk in a pre-game speech, another for a wedding toast/speech)

And content that is well organized - ahhhh I said that before

Answer 4

The impression the speaker knows what they are talking about and finds the topic interesting. S/he should also not be bumbling through it-ummm, let's see, I'm not sure, etc...

The content is interesting-facts, but not overloaded with statistics.

Information I can use-it is relevant to me.