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Focusing for the Oral Presentation
Gilberto Berríos
Departamento de Idiomas
Universidad Simón Bolívar
April 27, 2004
Many Questions to Answer
Purposes
To introduce focusing as the first step of the oral presentation process
To show how answering certain questions will help you to achieve focus
Agenda
What is focus?
How is focus achieved?
Humans are bad estimators
Procrastination
People
Preparation time
Topic difficulty
Our personal abilities
Presentation time
We tend to misjudge
Procrastinating
Procrastinating = putting off preparation for unjustified reasons
Procrastinating underpreparedness
more anxious delivery more fear of questions
Stop Procrastinating
One solution to procrastination is to start preparing as soon as possible.
The first thing to do is to give the presentation some focus.
What is focus?
“A point to which something converges or from which something diverges”
“A point in an optical system to which rays converge or from which they appear to diverge”
What is focus?
Convergence:
a center of interest
Focusing: Minor Questions
When—Day and time How Long—Presentation plus Q&A Where—Venue and type of room What equipment—And access to it
Don’t worry!
Focusing: Minor Questions
Answers to minor questions can be found relatively easily
Get straightforward answers from: – your boss– event organizers– administrators– colleagues
Focusing: Major Questions
What
Why
Who
How
Whatfor
Focusing: Major Questions
Topic
Motivation
Audience
Strategy
Purpose
Focusing: What
The Topic
—What you will talk about Familiar to you
– If not, do some research and study Partly unfamiliar to your audience
– So they will be neither bored nor lost Relevant to both
Focusing: Who
The Audience
—Who you will talk to Who are they? What do they do? How many are coming? What is their motivation? How familiar is the topic to them? …
Focusing: Why
The Motivation
—What moves you to talk Motive(s) for giving the presentation Must be clear to you May be same as purpose, but not
necessarily
Focusing: What for
The Purpose
—What you plan to achieve Expresses your goal Announces goal with a verb: “I’m here
today to…” Must be clear to you Can be explicit or implicit, depending on
strategy
Focusing: HowThe Strategy
—How you will get organized Strategy = Structure Structure = Outline
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STAMP: Major questions
Topic Audience Motivation Purpose Strategy
Strategy TopicAudienceMotivation Purpose
Remember
First, get straightforward answers to minor focus questions
Then, use the acronym STAMP to gradually answer the major focus questions
Thank you
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