The document provides guidance on effective communication skills for presentations, including adapting terminology for the audience, engaging the audience through changing intonation, incorporating interpersonal skills like positive body language and avoiding distracting behaviors, asking closed questions, considering cultural differences, being accurate, and including question and answer sessions to improve understanding. It also addresses capitalization, spelling, grammar, proofreading, appropriate emoticons for work, notetaking guidelines, and confirming completion of the challenge.

1. By Courtny Bardsley

2. • How would you adapt your terminology to
suit your audience
Don’t use advance terminology
Speak louder
Add a glossary
Include contents page

3. • Which one of these is an effective way of
engaging the audience.
Shout as loud as you can
Changing intonation
Wear bright coloured clothes
Make funny noises

4.  Which of these combinations are both interpersonal skills
Bragging & Dancing
Silence & Fidgeting
Looking at floor & Swearing
Signing & Positive body
language

5. • Which of these answers is a good thing to use as an interpersonal skill
Negative language
Good grammar
Capital letters
Positive language

6. • _______ is a form of active engagement
Facing opposite direction to audience
Coughing
Nodding
Avoiding eye contact

7.  _______ are forms of communication barriers
Fashion
Lighting
background noise, distractions, lack of concentration
Hair colour

8. • Is ‘ what is your phone number’ a closed
question?
No
Yes

9. • It is good to take cultural differences into
consideration when presenting.
False
True
Only on a Wednesday

10.  Being accurate and straight to the point is
which type of skill?
Writing
Interpersonal
General
communication

11.  Which of these sentences has the correct capitalisation, spelling
and grammar?
Courtny is the King.
cOurtny is the King.
Courtnii iss the ckingg.
Courtny is the King::::::..,

12. • Identifying relevance, structure to work and giving alternative
viewpoints are forms of written communications. True or false?
False
True

13.  Proof reading helps…?
Writing
Verbal
Physical

14.  Which of these emoticons would be considered
appropriate at work?
|:
:’(

:s

15.  Why are question and answer sessions
included in presentations?
To help improve for next time
See how much the audience understood
Clarify previously made points
All of the above

16.  Answering a question with a question is a
delaying …. tactic
Punctuation
Speed of response
Handwriting

17.  Note taking is a way to communicate in a
written manor however when doing so, is it
true that you will be expected to follow certain
guidelines at the place of work?
Yes
No

18.  Well done my friend, you have completed this
challenge 

19.  Wrong! Try again?
YES? NO?