presentation draft

Assignment: Stand and Deliver©

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Stand and Deliverã The Exercise: Here’s what you’ll learn • The participant will practice skills in quickly and effectively packaging messages using

the techniques offered in this class. • The participant will have the opportunity to sharpen his or her skills in applying the

Nichols’ Two-Things©, Question Opening©, Cold Closing© and Sense Messages techniques in developing and delivering his or her message.

• To simulate the type of communication found during staff meetings or task team

meetings, the participant will have a brief period of time to prepare his or her message. The Exercise: Here’s what you’ll do • You will present your Stand & Deliver© to your group on a “Fun Topic.” • Maximum time for talk: one minute The Exercise: Order of presentation Fun Stand & Deliver© The “Fun Topics” are assigned to the participant approximately ten minutes before his or her presentation. Participants preparing to present take one of three “stand-by” positions: Step 1 the Group gives the speaker three topics from which the student will select one as his

or her topic. The participant will step outside the classroom to prepare his or her presentation.

Step 2 as Speaker One returns to the room to begin his or her presentation, the Group

repeats Step 1 for Speaker Two, who then leaves the room to prepare his or her message. This student will speak next.

Step 3 after Speaker One has finished, Speaker Two is asked to enter and the Group calls the

next participant’s name. Steps 1 and 2 are then repeated until all students have presented.

Assignment: Stand and Deliver©

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Participants are evaluated using the Stand and Deliver© Coach’s Evaluation Form.

The Exercise: Here’s how you’ll be evaluated The presentations should focus upon the following criteria: • Question Opening/Capture Attention • Big Messages(s) • Use of Sense Messages • Pauses

• Projecting I Belong Here • Use of Cold Closing© • Presenting within time limit

Two student evaluators will coach the speaker by: • using the criteria above; and, • completing the Stand and Deliver© Coach’s Evaluation Form

Assignment: Stand and Deliver©

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Stand and Deliver© Fun Topics

1. The most important ideas in Effective Business Communication

2. Should bald guys wear hairpieces, or comb hair over bald spot?

3. Draught vs. bottled

4. Astroturf vs. real grass

5. Bring back Open Call Trading

6. Should fighting in professional hockey be banned?

7. Is graffiti art or vandalism?

8. Are talk shows information or entertainment?

9. The Kardashians

10. Sugar-free gum vs. pure pleasure gum

11. Toilet paper – over or under the roll?

12. Cat vs. Dog

13. Publicly traded v. privately held firms.

14. Jimmy Fallon vs. Conan O’Brien

15. Heels vs. flats

16. White Sox v. Cubs?

17. Daylight Savings Time vs. Central Standard Time

18. The nightmare of business networking events?

19. The best place to locate your tattoo

20. Fat-free cookies vs. Grandmom’s homemade

21. Should ballroom dancing be an Olympic sport?

22. Correct way to eat an Oreo

23. Chicago’s best season