podium

Examples of podium in the following topics:

• Utilizing Devices to Enhance Audience Understanding

  • Visual aids, microphones, video screens, and/or a podium can help enhance audience understanding.
  • A podium can help an audience understand a speech.
  • With the addition of visual aids, podiums, microphones, and video screens, a presenter can ensure that the audience is able to see, hear, and understand the material properly.

• Volume

  • Stationary mics - These are permanently attached to a podium.
  • With an attached microphone, you are limited to the space immediately in front of the podium.
  • Some stationary mics are in a holder on the podium, which can be removed to allow you to move around at least the length of the connecting cable.

• Context of Culture and Gender

  • It's helpful for you to anticipate not only the biases you might bring to the podium, but those biases of your audience towards you as well.

• Make It Memorable

  • Ideally, not only are they informed while you are speaking, but they actually retain that information after you have left the podium.

• Delivering the Speech

  • You might be confined behind a podium or lectern, in which case your largest range of motion may be restricted to hand gestures and your gaze around the room.
  • If you can walk out from behind a podium and across a stage, take the opportunity.

• Presentation

  • If you're able to get out from behind a podium or lectern, do so.

• Personal Benefits of Public Speaking

  • Giving a speech is like starting a conversation with a room full of people—and you can continue that conversation as soon as you step down from the podium.

• Physical Context

• Education

  • It reminded me to remember that I need to look at my presentation from the view of someone sitting in the audience, not the view on the podium.

• Culture Bias

  • There's the cultural bias you bring to the podium.