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Oral Communication

This instructional resource provides a comprehensive guide on the key concepts of oral communication, planning successful presentations, and strengths/weaknesses evaluations. It covers content, organization, and delivery elements, with practical steps for audience analysis, topic research, and presentation organization. Valuable tips on visual aids, practice methods, and effective delivery techniques are included. Learn to engage and influence your audience effectively in informal conversations or formal business settings.

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Oral Communication

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  1. Oral Communication Georgia CTAE Resource Network Instructional Resource Office To accompany curriculum for the Georgia Peach State Career Pathways April 2009, Kayla Calhoun & Dr. Frank Flanders

  2. Objectives • Recall the key concepts of oral communication • Define the three elements of oral communication • List the steps for planning a successful oral presentation • Design a presentation outline using the 9 steps of oral communication • Describe the strengths and weaknesses of a presentation

  3. Oral Communication Defined • Expressing ideas and information as well as influencing others through the spoken word • Can also include nonverbal communication • Important for any career, whether you use it in informal conversations or business presentations • Key Concepts: speaker, message, channel, receiver, feedback, noise, context

  4. Three Elements of Oral Communication • Content: information conveyed in presentation • Organization: structure of presentation • Delivery: means of communication

  5. Steps for Planning a Successful Oral Presentation • Determine a general purpose • Analyze the audience • Choose a specific purpose • Research the topic • Organize and outline the presentation • Visual aids • Practice • Delivery • Assessment

  6. Step 1Determine a General Purpose • Purposes: • Inform • Persuade • Entertain/move

  7. Step 2Analyze the Audience • Relate your message to your audience’s knowledge, beliefs, and interests • Study demographic data • Consider size, setting, and prior disposition toward the topic and yourself • Important to present the most relevant information while avoiding offense

  8. Step 3Specific Purpose • Narrow your topic • Ex: • General purpose: inform • Specific purpose: Provide information about the current issues affecting Georgia agriculture • Should be explicitly stated in introduction

  9. Step 4Research Topic • Gathering facts, figures, testimony, and examples • Establishes credibility • Competence: speaker’s knowledge of subject • Character: speaker’s trustworthiness

  10. Step 5Organizing and Outlining • Introduction • Attention-getter • Thesis • Preview statement • Body: 2-5 main points • Conclusion • Summary of main points • Strong concluding statement

  11. Step 5 continuedOrganizing and Outlining • Organizational patterns • Chronological • Spatial • Topical • Cause-effect • Problem-solution • Connectives • Transitions, internal previews and summaries, signposts

  12. Step 6Visual Aids • Should add to the presentation • Visible to audience • Talk to audience, not visual aid • Explain visual aids to audience • Can be PowerPoint, graph, chart, DVD, transparency, people, etc.

  13. Step 7Practice • Delivery methods: • Manuscript • Memorization • Extemporaneous • Impromptu • Be sure to practice using visual aids • Time your presentation

  14. Step 8 continuedDelivery • Voice: volume, pitch, pauses, articulation, pronunciation • 60% of meaning from nonverbal cues • Gestures, eye contact, posture, facial expressions • Physical appearance • Environment • Being late and rushing through presentation

  15. Step 9Assess • Ask for feedback from the audience • Identify strengths and weaknesses of your presentation

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