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The Audience & Public Speaking Pam Axtman-Barker Scenario A professor you had a year ago has reached out and asked you to come and speak to their current class for about 5 minutes. They request that you provide a students perspective on

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The Audience & Public Speaking

Pam Axtman-Barker

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Scenario

A professor you had a year ago has reached out and asked you to come and speak to their current class for about 5 minutes. They request that you provide a students perspective on the class and tips for succeeding. What do you do to prepare for your talk?

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Preview of Presentation

1. Model of Communication
2. Types of Audiences
3. Adapting to Audience
4. Application

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Identifying Types of Audiences

1. Captive / Voluntary
2. Technical / Nontechnical
3. Profile

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Captive / Voluntary

Captive Audiences:

– Required to be there or there by incentive – Often less invested

Voluntary Audiences

– Chose to attend – Typically more directly interested in topic

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Captive Audiences

Your Goal is to make them feel it was worth their time Be prepared and adapt for them

Clear, Concise message
Used time efficiently
Connected to their interests

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Voluntary Audience

This audience is likely already interested

They can opt out at any time

– engagement is key

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Technical/ Non-Technical

Technical Audiences:

– Understand jargon – Familiar with methodology and content

Non-Technical Audiences

– Not familiar with your topic/research – Varying levels of experience

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Technical Audiences

Consider their level of technical knowledge
Consider what they care about / what matters to them

– Do they want to see a bunch of math or do they want to see a finished prototype? Or something else – What are they expecting

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Non-Technical Audiences

Create an opportunity for shared meaning

– Identify a problem – Tell a story – Explain technical content

Remember, your audience can’t stop to look up a term they

don’t understand, so think about what you might need to define for them

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Create a Profile of the Audience

Demographics
Attitude toward the topic
Size of the audience
Setting of Speech

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How can you learn these things about the audience?

In Advance…

– Ask the coordinator – Conduct a survey (If appropriate) – Ask someone who has presented there before

In the Presentation

– Look around

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Non-verbal audience feedback

Look at what your audience is doing when you are speaking

Engaged?
Tuned out?

Adjust accordingly

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Activity

Talk to a partner about either:

Your weekend plans

What you did last weekend
A project you’ve been working on

A project you are thinking of starting

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Strategies

1. Stories
2. Humor
3. Engagement
4. Organization

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Stories

Humans are storytellers

Use an example (real or imagined)
Start with a problem, end with a solution

Your story should be:

1. Believable
2. Be logically consistent

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Humor

A well-placed, well-timed joke can help the audience engage HOWEVER, A bad, inappropriate, ill-timed joke can ruin the presentation

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Engagement

Audiences like direction

Show of hands
Thumb poll
Talk to a neighbor
Clicker Questions

The key is participation!

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Organization

Preview

– “Today we will tell you about [A], then [B], then [C].”

Transitions

– Review, Preview – “First we’d like to explain the objectives for our project” – “Now that I have discussed the design process, [Jeremy] is going to talk about areas for future research”

Repetition

– “Again, our object was [X], so we focused on this element a lot.” – “In order to achieve [previously stated objective], we also focused on this” – “So as you can see, our results showed [restate results]”

Conclusion

– “In conclusion, today we have presented our senior design project, explaining A, B, and C”

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A couple of cautions

1. Don’t stereotype your audience 2. Do not simply tell the audience what they want to hear 3. Continue to analyze the audience as you are speaking

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Will your audience be receptive to your message?

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Is this message the right one for this audience?

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Data is important. But data needs to be communicated in a way that can be understood.

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Good Communication Matters

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R Tufte 2001 Graphics Press

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The typography was sloppy.
Unnecessary icons of rockets
bscured key numbers.
Worst of all, the performance data
f the O-rings was arranged by

launch date, rather than by the critical factor, temperature. That made it all but impossible for decision makers to envision that a launch in weather below 66 degrees probably would involve O-ring failure.

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Sender Receiver Model of Communication

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Good Communication

starts with understanding your

audience.

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Pam Axtman-Barker Lead Program Administrator pamelaa2@Illinois.edu

speak.engineering.illinois.edu