Quiz - week 4 GEN499
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Week 4 - Quiz
Due
Apr 1 at 12:59am
Points
10
Questions
10
Time Limit
30 Minutes
Allowed Attempts
2
Instructions
Tailoring Presentations to the Audience
[WLOs: 1, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 4, 5]
Prior to taking this quiz, read
Professional Presentations for an International Audience
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, and review the
Presentation Skills are Important
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video.
This quiz will review several important considerations to ensure that your audience is respected, included, and clearly receives the message. The quiz will include issues with vernacular, accessibility, professionalism, bias, and misrepresentation.
The quiz contains an embedded video and 10 multiple-choice and true-or-
false questions and is worth 3% of your course grade. You will have 30 minutes to complete the quiz, and it must be taken in one sitting. You will have two attempts to take this quiz.
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Question 1
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You are a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company and will be meeting with the physicians in a large medical facility. What expectations would your audience have of you?
You will address everyone by first name.
You will be wearing a tee shirt and shorts.
You will provide statistical data about the medicine’s effectiveness
Your audience will expect you to provide the information in a professional, detailed manner to which they can relate. To promote a credible impression, it is also important to ensure that your attire reflects the same level of professionalism as your audience.
Question 2
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You have to deliver a presentation on the hazards of drug abuse to a group of teenagers. How can you gain their respect and buy-in for your message?
Arrive wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase.
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Include a lot of medical statistics in your discussion.
Use vernacular that they can relate to effectively.
For teenagers to receive and accept advice or suggestions, it is important to relate to them in a manner that they are familiar with. Using jargon they don’t understand or dressing in a way that they don’t identify with may turn them off.
Question 3
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You are excited about an upcoming job interview and want to make a good impression. Which of the following would be helpful in preparing for the interview?
Do an internet search about the company to learn about its mission, vision, product lines, etc.
In advance of the interview, visit the worksite at the start or end of the workday to see the typical dress of the employees as they enter and leave the facility.
Update your resume to showcase your skills that most closely relate to the position that you are seeking.
All of the above
All of the above. Preparing yourself appropriately and thoroughly will give you the best chance of being noticed and considered for the position. Presenting yourself as
being culturally knowledgeable about and representative of the company’s values, employees, and skills will invite a favorable impression that you would “fit in.”
Question 4
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You are an 11
th
grade math teacher. You are tasked with meeting with a group of local business owners to ask them to partner with you in developing
a curriculum that focuses on the math skills typically used in their businesses. What information would be beneficial to research in advance as you prepare for the meeting?
Review the websites for each business to gain an understanding of the scope
of each of their businesses.
Check the sponsors’ directories for local civic organizations to see which programs these businesses typically support.
Secure job applications from each business to see if any of the questions being asked of applicants address math concepts.
All of the above
All of the above. Gaining as much information about the local business that relates to your intentions as possible will make a good impression on the local business owners so that they will work with you on the curriculum project. “Doing your homework” pays off.
Question 5
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You are the principal of a school and need to send an important message recruiting volunteers to assist with an upcoming school event to all parents of your elementary school students using the Remind app which will automatically send text messages and voicemails to their phones. The message must be brief but inviting. Which message would be most effective in encouraging parents to volunteer to assist with the event?
“This is an important reminder. You need to volunteer at this event.”
“Our records show that you have never volunteered for one of our events, so
now is your chance.”
“All funds raised at this event will be used to purchase computers and Internet access for students that they can use do their homework. Please consider volunteering to help us provide this valuable resource for our students to prepare them to thrive in a 21
st
Century workforce.”
Instead of making demands or relying on guilt tactics, appealing to people’s desire to help by explaining the benefits of their efforts is much more effective.
Question 6
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You have accepted a position as an Activities Director at a senior center that serves individuals 55 and older. You are only 25 years old and want to be sure that you are targeting your messages effectively. Which practices would
be recommended?
Assume all participants at the senior center actively use social media.
Include verbal shortcuts in message such as LOL, emojis, and text-jargon.
Survey the seniors at the center to learn how they prefer to receive information about upcoming events.
Understanding the needs and demographics of your audience is extremely important when targeting messages that they can relate to and access.
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Question 7
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You recently accepted a managerial position and are delivering your first presentation to the board of directors. Informed flexibility would be exhibited
by which of the following examples:
In preparation for the meeting, you conduct an internet search on each of the board members so you are familiar with the work they do.
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You purchase a new business suit to wear to the meeting.
During the presentation, you notice that the board members start sending text messages on their phones rather than paying attention to the chart you are showing on available inventory, so you quickly decide to share a story about how mismanaging inventory created a problem for one of your outlets and how using a chart could have avoided the situation.
Recognizing that the audience has become disengaged, you quickly change your delivery to make the message more realistic and personable by telling a story.
Question 8
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You are a counselor working for a large community mental health organization that received a one-year grant to fund a therapeutic art program for teenagers. In meeting with the grantor, you notice that they are spending a lot of time on their phone instead of listening to you explain the grant ledger sheet. What would be the best strategy to try to get back their attention?
Display a chart showing the number of youths who participated in and completed the program.
Share examples of the artwork that the youth created as well as the stories they are conveying through their art.
Since the grantor was not interested in learning about data related to the funding, you switch to sharing evidence of how the grant is actually helping youths work through their issues.
Share the results of a participant satisfaction survey.
Understanding and relating to one's audience when presenting should be part of every speaker’s skillset. Consider the scenarios below and answer the
questions accordingly.
Question 9
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During Covid, health professionals needed to convey the importance of personal hygiene in reducing the spread of the infectious disease. Which of the following statements would have been best suited to a general audience of grocery store workers in Kentucky to explain the importance of using antimicrobial soap?
Although differences in efficacy between antimicrobial and nonantimicrobial soap were small (
∼
0.5-log CFU reduction difference), antimicrobial soap produced consistently statistically significantly greater reductions in infectious spread.
It is better to use a soap with specific germ-fighting effects than plain soap.
Using informal language that is more clearly understood by a population will achieve better results and buy in.
Question 10
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Most doctoral students are required to defend their dissertations in order to receive their degree. Doctoral defenses are usually comprised of questions posed by a panel committee to measure the degree of expertise the candidate has about the doctoral topic. When explaining the outcome of the doctoral research during a doctoral defense, which of the following is the best advice?
Addressing each panel member by their professional status and last name.
Not wearing a tee shirt, shorts, or flip flops.
Making eye contact with the panelists.
Using a plain background to hide a messy room in the virtual meeting.
All of the above.
All of the advice that is given provides a positive and professional impression which will relay a feeling of confidence in the candidate and competence by the panelists.
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