Presentation Skills III
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The document outlines effective presentation skills, emphasizing the importance of language style, tone, and delivery in managing and implementing change. It highlights key elements for sustainable change, including clear goals, metrics, and continuous monitoring, alongside the significance of communication and leadership. Additionally, it presents a scoring system for assessing organizational readiness for change, where interdependent components yield a combined score reflecting overall performance.
Presentation Skills III
- 1. Presentation Skills III - Identity and Language
- 2. Agenda The Right Kind of Language Video Presentation - Managing Change Practice Section - Implementing Change for Sustainable Results Recap - Al Gore video
- 3. Reading a Presentation - Advantages v. Disadvantages Advantages v. Disadvantages Consider Style, Tone and Delivery Personal v. Impersonal Written v. Spoken language Active v. Passive Verb forms
- 4. Written Language Spoken language long sentences complex vocabulary complex arguments impersonal style shorter sentences simpler vocabulary simpler arguments personal style
- 5. Formal Informal to acquire to reduce to access to appreciate to capture to deteriorate to implement to rationalise to remunerate to withdraw to put into action to pull out to get worse to buy to pay to cut down to get into to take to understand to make simpler
- 6. Use Active Verbs Avoid passive verbs - was and were Avoid static verbs that lack movement - am, is, are, be, being, been, had, have, has, do,did, does, could, should, would Replace overused verbs ( get, went, put ) with more precise active verbs - see examples.
- 7. Videos Prepare for Change How to Implement Change Dealing with Questions
- 8. Presentation Practice Your Company is going to implement a major change program The HR department will co-ordinate Training Programs and performance evaluations for operations staff.
- 9. Managing Change Fig 1 - The Five Box Model for Sustainable Results
- 10. Implementation clear goals clear metrics for measuring success ongoing monitoring knowledge management and sharing Systems are the ‘glue’ that hold change programs together. They define the framework in which the business functions. Key elements are: communication leadership involvement a continuous quality mindset standardisation
- 11. Score your organisation: Surprised by a low score? A major automotive supplier carrying out this exercise was horrified to find that its systems scored 2, processes scored 3, tools and techniques scored 4, yielding an overall score of 24. The point is, the scores have to be multiplied together rather than added, because the three elements are interdependent; any one is severely limited without the other two.