If Peter wanted to add extra life and clarity into your presentation, he would stress the importance of using “gestures, vocal variety, energy, and visual aids”. (Guffey, Rhodes, Rogin, n.d., p. 513).
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Peter has a good point. If you are giving a presentation and speak in a monotone or robotic type voice, seem unnatural and stiff, read from a script and have no pictures or videos to help clarify your ideas, you’ll likely sound boring and your audience may fall asleep or even worse, leave.
Gesturing means using facial or body movement to show your ideas and emotions over a subject. Vocal variety is the combination of pitch (such as looow pitch, hiiiigh pitch), tone (I’M FINE!!, This is awkward.), volume (hello; hello ), and rate of speech (This is the author of the book……; Thisistheauthorofthebook……;) and is used to add energy to your words . When you use vocal variety, it shows that you are speaking from the heart. Visual aids include posters, props or PowerPoint’s, for example, as a reference to help your audience understand what you are saying. When these factors are used together, the audience will enjoy listening and watching to your presentation, and will likely attend another presentation of yours in the future.
Here are some great links to show you how to improve your presentation skills:
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References:
Guffey, M, Rhodes, K., Rogin, P. (2011). Business Communication: Process and Product. (Canadian 6th ed.) Toronto, ON: Nelson. Chapter14.
write-out-loud,com. (n.d.). Quick Easy Effective Tips for Vocal Variety. Retrieved from http://www.write-out-loud.com/quickeasyeffectivetipsforvocalvariety.html
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