Which of the following is a question that you need to answer to successfully analyze your audience?
A) What is the main concern of the presentation?
B) Who are the key players?
C) Will you be standing and presenting the slides?
D) How quickly can you complete the presentation?
E) Can you embed video within your presentation?
Answer: B
Explanation: B) One of the questions that helps you to analyze your audience is "Who are the key players?" Other questions are either related to analyzing the message or analyzing the setting.
You might also like to view...
In a meeting to discuss pension plans, management decides to offer retirement plans exclusively to the organization's owners and top managers. Jeremy, one of the top managers, disagrees with this decision because he believes the company can benefit more by providing pensions to a broad range of employees. Which statement strengthens Jeremy's belief?
A. Pension plans are determined exclusively by state and federal laws. B. Extending pension plans to employees at all levels will triple the costs. C. The ADEA provides more favorable tax treatment of benefits when they are offered to a broad range of employees. D. A top-heavy plan requires faster vesting for non-key employees. E. Nondiscrimination rules provide tax benefits to plans that do not favor the organization's highly compensated employees.
Management decisions typically
A. are always free of risks. B. have the characteristics of programmed decisions. C. are consistent in addressing novel problems. D. are made under conditions of perfect certainty. E. lack structure.
For example, a survey cannot be altered in design once it has been administered, which relates to which criteria when selecting data gathering methods?
a. access b. flexibility c. investment required d. relevance to the problem
Top executives of a health maintenance organization (HMO) were discussing a proposal to start providing each patient with a short customer satisfaction survey that would be on a card given to the patient when the patient left one of the HMO's clinics. All the patient had to do was to complete the survey items and drop the card in a mailbox; the HMO would pay the return postage. After several minutes, one of the executives said, "I don't like this idea at all, because the only people who will respond to the survey are people who want to complain about something." Apparently, this executive doesn't understand that
A. no one answers surveys that are sent through the mail. B. both of these are the case: Complaints can bring implementation problems to light so that the company can fix them; and implementation problems that are unresolved often result in dissatisfied patients who may choose other health care providers. C. most companies don't pay any attention to customer surveys anyway. D. complaints can bring implementation problems to light so that the company can fix them. E. implementation problems that are unresolved often result in dissatisfied patients who may choose other health care providers.