Longer Business Messages

1. Oral presentations give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate your communication skills, your ability to think on your feet, your ability to grap complex business issues, and how you handle challenging situations.
2. The three goals you should accomplish during the introduction of an oral presentation include: arouse interest in the audience, establish credibility, and prepare the audience for what will follow.
3. The techniques you can use to get an audience's attention during the introduction are unite the audience around a common goal, tell a story, pass around a sample, ask a question, state a startling statistic, and use humor.
4. The three tasks you should accomplish in the close of your presentation are to restate your main points, describe the next step, and to end on a strong note.
5. To ensure success with online presentaions, consider sending preview study materials ahead of time, keep your presentation as simple as possible, ask for feedback frequently, consider the viewing experience from the audience members point of view, make sure your audience can recive the sort of content you intend to use, and allow plenty of time for everyone to get connected and familiar with the screen they're viewing