When participating in a public speaking engagement, it’s imperative that you establish a rapport with your audience. For part 1 of this week’s discussion assignment, answer the following questions:
Why is rapport building with your audience a critical piece of a successful public speaking engagement?
What are different ways you can build rapport with your audience?
What are the repercussions of not building rapport?
Can you think of a time where you attended a public speaking engagement as an audience member and the speaker built amazing rapport? If not, can you think of a time when you attended a public speaking engagement as an audience member and the speaker failed to build rapport? What happened in either instance?
For the second part of this week’s discussion, please discuss primary and secondary research. Please be sure to discuss the following:
What are secondary and primary research methods?
In your opinion, which is more valuable?
How do you plan on locating secondary research methods?
How do you plan on locating primary research methods?