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Jeremy Ralya
Persuasion
The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing
people’s beliefs or actions.
Our Agenda:
• Preparedness: Get Ready, Get Set, Go
• Maximizing the Impact of the Content
• A Lesson on Visual Aids
Preparedness:
Get Ready
• Audience-Centeredness:
• Know the audience’s Interests & Attitudes
• Align the topic and main points to them.
• Adjust, suppress, and adopt the
audience’s views.
• Body Language
• First Impressions Matter
• Eye Contact is Key
• “Make sure your hands don’t upstage your ideas.”
Content: Maximize Impact!
Graphs: Charts:
City Population
Chicago 2.7M
Miami 440 K
Agree
Visual Aids: Audience
Participation
• Challenging to coordinate
• Effective for helping the audience
remember.