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Presentation Skills

Instructions:

Answer 15 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Take - turn - tell
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information

2. Non-verbal communication dominates verbal communication - So...
consistent
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery

3. How do you want the audience to perceive you?
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
Confident - knowledgeable
unexpected and predictable

4. One clear - concise statement
92%
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
outline

5. Open your presentation with...
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
unexpected and predictable
20 minutes

6. Introduction - a body - and a conclusion
outline
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person

7. How many percent of communication received is not the content of the message
distracts the audience
Confident - knowledgeable
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
92%

8. Visual presentation should be...
consistent
Confident - knowledgeable
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time

9. Too many special effects in electronic presentations...
unexpected and predictable
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
distracts the audience
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined

10. Connect with one person
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
92%
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time

11. Ideal number of words in a sentence - and lines on a slide
distracts the audience
6
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
Confident - knowledgeable

12. Combing verbal and nonverbal
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
distracts the audience

13. Most presentations should be no longer than...
20 minutes
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
92%
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person

14. Competence
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
6
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined

15. People retain more of...
outline
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery