Question

You are preparing a presentation on networking for a professional development seminar that your company is hosting for its employees. You look at the attendance list and see that you have good relationships with all of the registered seminar participants. Additionally, this presentation is a follow-up presentation that was requested by previous participants. You know you will have a friendly audience.
1. What organizational pattern would be best for this situation?
a. Be brief. Use no more than three points
b. An indirect pattern with minimal audience contact
c. Any pattern, particularly with audience involvement

2. What delivery style should you use?
a. Warm, pleasant, and open
b. Even and slow speech
c. Confident, small gestures

Answer 1

Answer:

1. c. Any pattern, particularly with audience involvement
2. a. Warm, pleasant, and open

Explanation:

As this is a follow-up presentation, it would be best to find out how the participants have fared in relation to the subject since the last presentation. For this reason, the main focus is audience involvement so any patter is fine so long as audience participation is emphasized.

The delivery style that would best work here is a warm, pleasant and open one. This would encourage audience involvement and it can be more easily pulled off because you have good relationships with all the registered participants.