CHAPTER 7

Presentations

You will likely be called upon to deliver presentations throughout your career. Presentations are considered a high stakes communication tool that influence an organization’s constituencies and consequently play an important role in the workplace. Presentations may be given to an internal audience of employees, partners, boards, investors, or vendors, or to an external audience of customers, the media, analysts, or the community.1 A presentation can be used for marketing, sales, training, or events and may be seen by one to thousands of people. Similarly, there are various types of presentations—informal or formal briefings, oral renditions of a written report, or even virtual presentations.

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