1. Adapting & Delivering Speech
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Adapting & Delivering Speech

2. Adapting & Delivering Speech
Audience Diversity and Delivery
Adapt presentation to your audience
Avoid ethnocentric mindset
Less dramatic style for high context listeners
Monitor level of immediacy
Monitor your emotional expression
Use gestures with care

3. Adapting & Delivering Speech
Delivering your speech
Get plenty of rest before your speech
Watch what you eat
Acknowledge anxiety
Review confident speaking techniques
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4. Adapting & Delivering Speech
Delivering your speech
Arrive early for speech
Check equipment
Relax before you deliver
Visualize success

5. Adapting & Delivering Speech
Responding to questions
During Q&A
Delivery changes to impromptu speaking
To make Q&A less challenging
Prepare
Repeat or rephrase the question
Stay on message
Ask yourself the 1st question
Listen impartially

6. Adapting & Delivering Speech
To make Q&A less challenging
Neutralize hostile questions
When you don’t know, admit it
Be brief
Use organizational signposts
Indicate when the Q&A period is concluding