Assessment 7

Assessment 7 >> Successful Presentation

Dictate specifically where each member of your audience should sit

Require that everyone turn off their cell phones

Use your authority to create a community

Predict every possible variable and account for it

As a threat to your authority

As individuals, if you can

You should avoid thinking about your audience altogether

A slide deck

A handout

A video clip

None of these are best

Choose one audience member to make sustained eye contact with

Scan your eyes over the crowd, but don’t make eye contact with any one person

Regularly and intentionally move your field of vision so you make eye contact with everyone

All of the above

Smile, and say a positive phrase

Think about the question

Avoid the question

Synthesize ideas

Answer back, mildly and deferentially

Answer back, powerfully and aggressively

Use self-deprecating humor to avoid the question

Ask the speaker’s name

Talk about yourself

Neither

Public

Both

Private

A public performance of the public self

A private performance of the public self

A public performance of the whole self

A public performance of the private self

Assessment 7 >> Successful Presentation