Analyze each reaction against the proposed situation in: Counterproductive, Ineffective, Not very effective, Reasonably effective, Effective or Very effective. You are returning from a few days off. Tomorrow you need to make a presentation to the board and your manager has prepared the slides for you. He did this because he knew you would have little time and thought it best for you to focus on preparing the presentation itself. However, the slides are bad, with little impact and far from what you think is ideal. You: - Explain the situation to your manager, comment on what points the presentation might be best for and ask him to get the slides right before the presentation. Counterproductive Ineffective Not very effective Reasonably effective Effective Very effective - Focuses on improving the slides so that they are the way you would like them for tomorrow. Counterproductive Ineffective Not very effective Reasonably effective Effective Very effective - It fixes only a few mistakes on the slides and focuses on preparing what you are going to talk about in the presentation itself. Counterproductive Ineffective Not very effective Reasonably effective Effective Very effective - Focuses on preparing the presentation speech and, at the beginning of it, apologizes to those present and explains that the quality of the slides is not ideal. Counterproductive Ineffective Not very effective Reasonably effective Effective Very effective - Ask a colleague to update and improve the slides for you while you focus on speech. Counterproductive Ineffective Not very effective Reasonably effective Effective Very effective
Analyze each reaction against the proposed situation in: Counterproductive, Ineffective, Not very effective, Reasonably effective, Effective or Very effective.
You are returning from a few days off. Tomorrow you need to make a presentation to the board and your manager has prepared the slides for you. He did this because he knew you would have little time and thought it best for you to focus on preparing the presentation itself. However, the slides are bad, with little impact and far from what you think is ideal. You:
- Explain the situation to your manager, comment on what points the presentation might be best for and ask him to get the slides right before the presentation.
Counterproductive
Ineffective
Not very effective
Reasonably effective
Effective
Very effective
- Focuses on improving the slides so that they are the way you would like them for tomorrow.
Counterproductive
Ineffective
Not very effective
Reasonably effective
Effective
Very effective
- It fixes only a few mistakes on the slides and focuses on preparing what you are going to talk about in the presentation itself.
Counterproductive
Ineffective
Not very effective
Reasonably effective
Effective
Very effective
- Focuses on preparing the presentation speech and, at the beginning of it, apologizes to those present and explains that the quality of the slides is not ideal.
Counterproductive
Ineffective
Not very effective
Reasonably effective
Effective
Very effective
- Ask a colleague to update and improve the slides for you while you focus on speech.
Counterproductive
Ineffective
Not very effective
Reasonably effective
Effective
Very effective

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