3. How Important is
Communication?
• Employers hire effective communicators
• Survey of Fortune 500 executives links
communication skills to business success
4.
5. Planning
Your Purpose
• General Purpose
– Entertain
– Inform
– Persuade
• Specific Purpose
– To inform the committee about the . . .
– To persuade the board that . ..
23. The Two Most
Important Rules
• Visual aids--not speaking notes
• The fact that you can doesn’t mean
that you should
24. Effective
Communication
• Critical to your success
• Starts with good planning
• Requires practice
• Uses the eyes, the body, the hands, and the
voice purposefully
• Uses visual aids effectively