BSBCMM401 Make a Presentation

Assessment 1 - Questions

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Question 1: Regardless of why you do a presentation, there are a number of key aspects you
need to consider. Name 3 of these.
1. Presentation offer opportunities for developing skills and knowledge together.
2. To provide value to the prospect
3. Presentation must be well prepared in order to be able to give information to the
audience properly.

Question 2: Whenever you prepare for a presentation, you first need to understand why you
are doing the presentation and what goals you wish to achieve from it. Why?
Before preparing material for a presentation, it is worth considering your
prospective audience. Tailoring your talk to the audience is important and the
following points should be considered: The size of the group or audience
expected. When you are doing a presentation you always have a goal. You are trying to
get a message across. You are trying to teach your audience. Or you are trying to sell
something. There is always a presentation goal.

Question 3: What are 3 considerations you may need to make when delivering presentations to
different target audiences or cultural backgrounds?
1.The language you use in a cross cultural presentation is important
2.Some presentations may be in front of a small number of people and deal with
sensitive issues in a pressured environment.
3.  things other people may assist you with during the presentation.

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Question 4: Name 3 techniques you can use to adjust your presentation for people from
different backgrounds.
1. To be effective, you have to possess the habit of forced pauses as the audience
can have an opportunity to think about your talk for a minute and digest all the
information as well. Do not talk as if there is no end to your Presentation,
because it will eliminate the chance of inviting questions from listeners.
2. To indicate the must information, use highlight pens and to avoid looking down
again and again, you can use the top 2/3 of the page. Not just this, in order to
make the types easy to read use bullet ed points. If you are able to do that,
certainly it will make a perfect Presentation for you and your audience.
3. If you are a non English speaker you may find challenging to present an idea to
a large audience, but there are some phrases and sentences that you can
practice in advance. There are tons of useful phrases for a presentation

Question 5: Case studies are one example of presentation techniques you can use to keep your
audience engaged. List 3 others.
1. Ask each individual within a smaller group to answer a question or provide
an example to the rest of the room.
2. Ask the audience a question and provide them with a range for answering.
3. Ask the audience to pick a partner to do an activity with

Question 6: List 5 resources you may use to help deliver your presentation.

Question 7: Give 2 examples of media (other than text) you may include in your presentation
to make it more interesting and help people understand key ideas.

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Question 8: List 3 things other people may assist you with during the presentation.

Question 9: What are 3 considerations you need to make when involving a

Co-presenters/Subject Matter Experts/Guest Speakers?

Question 10: What is the difference between quantitative evaluation and qualitative
evaluation?

Question 11: Give 2 examples of methods for collecting feedback and evaluating your
performance?

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Question 12: The following steps are all part of making a good presentation, but the must be
done in the correct order. Number the list from 1 (first step) to 7 (last step).
Future directions
Questions and discussion time
Background and context
Introduction and overview
Information on the topic
Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgements

Question 13: What information should your introduction contain?

Question 14: List 4 ‘non verbal’ signs that your presentation is not going well.

Question 15: What action can you take if you notice that your audience is becoming impatient?

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Question 16: Give 4 examples of things you can do to help deal with difficult questions.

Question 17: Give 3 examples of ways to get feedback from the audience about your
presentation.

Question 18: Why it is important to summarise your presentation and cover all the main points
you discussed?

Question 19: Why is evaluation of feedback important?

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Question 20: Name a product or service from your industry that you would create a
presentation about.

Question 21: Name 5 areas of the law that you may impact on what you say in your
presentation, in your industry.

Question 22: The Australian Speak Easy Association lists 5 things a good speaking voice relies
on. Name 2 of these.

Question 23: A study by Dr. Albert Mehrabian at the University of California (Los Angeles) has
found that an audience is influenced by a speaker in the following way:
 Body Language – 55%
 Voice – 38%
What is the other 7% made up of?
Words account for 7%

END OF ASSESSMENT