Chapter 15: Introduction to Public Speaking
Chapter Learning Outcomes
In this chapter you will:
- Employ audience analysis to adapt communication to the needs of supervisors, colleagues, employees, and clients.
- Explain the role of intercultural communication competence in intercultural business communication contexts.
- Identify strategies for handling question-and-answer periods.
- Identify strategies for effectively planning and delivering common business presentations, including briefings, reports, training, and meetings.
Public speaking doesn’t just occur in communication classes or in academic settings. Most communication instructors try to connect the content of their course to the real world and to other courses, but many students fail to follow up on that connection. To get the most out of this course, you should be able to see how communication skills in general, and speaking skills in particular, integrate into various parts of your lives. As you saw in each chapter so far, this textbook approaches communication from an integrative learning perspective that encourages teachers and students to apply the content of a class to other courses, personal contexts, and professional contexts and then reflect on those connections. Integrative and reflective thinking about communication helps us realize that the expectations for speaking are context specific. When we can draw on particular skills in order to adapt to our communication situation, we will be more successful in our classes, workplaces, and communities.
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