Chap 12 tf

Effective speaking skills and career success go hand in hand at every stage of a career.

• True
• False

Business studies indicate that the best predictor of career success is not only whether employees were effective at public speaking but also if they enjoyed public speaking.

• True
• False

For any presentation you can reduce your fears and lay the foundation for a professional performance by focusing on five items: your knowledge, your background/experience, your self-confidence, your breathing, and your inner peace or Zen.

• True
• False

The most important part of preparation for an oral presentation is deciding the purpose.

• True
• False

To effectively adapt a presentation for an unfamiliar audience, you should contact five or six audience members to interview before the presentation to determine typical audience attributes. You should then thank these people in the opening of your presentation.

• True
• False

No matter what kind of audience you will have, you must plan your presentation to focus it on audience benefits.

• True
• False

Good organization and conscious repetition are the two most powerful keys to audience comprehension and retention.

• True
• False

It may be appropriate to begin a speech with a promise, a question, an anecdote, and even a joke.

• True
• False

You can avoid one of the biggest problems with most oral presentations if you focus your speech on a few key ideas.

• True
• False

Natalia is presenting statistics about the diversity of college students in different parts of the country. She will most likely organize by chronology.

• True
• False