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Presentation Skills

Instructions:

Answer 15 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Connect with one person
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
20 minutes
6
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person

2. Non-verbal communication dominates verbal communication - So...
20 minutes
6
consistent
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery

3. Too many special effects in electronic presentations...
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
6
Confident - knowledgeable
distracts the audience

4. How do you want the audience to perceive you?
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
unexpected and predictable
Confident - knowledgeable

5. Competence
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
distracts the audience
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

6. Visual presentation should be...
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
Confident - knowledgeable
consistent
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple

7. Ideal number of words in a sentence - and lines on a slide
6
Confident - knowledgeable
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined

8. People retain more of...
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
92%
Confident - knowledgeable
20 minutes

9. Most presentations should be no longer than...
20 minutes
distracts the audience
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
92%

10. Introduction - a body - and a conclusion
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time
outline
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
6

11. Open your presentation with...
outline
92%
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information
unexpected and predictable

12. Take - turn - tell
Leads to: confidence - more cometence - more confidence
6
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
Combining verbal and nonverbal - Connect- convey - continue - Take the information you need - Turn to face your audience - Tell them your information

13. Combing verbal and nonverbal
6
Limit the text on slides - Exceptions - quotes - Use graphics that ilustrate the story - when in doubt be simple
Confident - knowledgeable
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person

14. One clear - concise statement
outline
Once the purpose of your presentation is determined
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
what they hear when they see and hear the information at the same time

15. How many percent of communication received is not the content of the message
outline
Make eye contact - Convey your information - Continue with another person
Avoid mixed messages - reinforce your message through your delivery
92%