Entertainment Speech -Self Critique

Please post your self critique for your entertainment speech here. I am looking for a deeper and more detailed critique than submitted this summer. The speech critique must include strengths and improvements. It must be a minimum of 200 words. Do not just focus on your delievery. I want to hear about your content too. Please identify the element of humor techniques that you incorporated in your speech. How successful were these techniques? What would you do different? Or, the same if you performed this speech again? BE sure to view your youtube clip before positng and refer to it in your post.

What's Your EQ?

What is your EQ? This post follows up our class discussion on Emotional Inelligence Please review this article entitled "Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum" by Frank Bellizzi, Quinnipiac University. Then, check out this self test. Please create a post that makes application to our class discussions, assigned readings,and the results of your self test. The blog post should share your top two "personal" EQ improvements. What needs to be improved to develop your emotional intelligence? Share with us your personal strategies and/or plans to put them into action. Blog comment is due by Tuesday, September 22 at the start of class.

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Chris Daggett, Candidate for Governor Visits Rider University

Engaging An Audience
The race for a Governor in New Jersey is on! It is a perfect time to observe the communication skills that we have addressed over the summer session. We are the only university that will host all three candidates currently running for Governor of New Jersey. This Tuesday, Sept 15, the first candidate to visit the Rider University campus will be Mr. Chris Daggett. The goal of this blog is to observe and apply the effectiveness of his communication. What ways does Mr. Daggett engage his audience successfully? Please comment in the ways that Mr. Chris Daggett engages his audience in his presentation. Did Mr. Daggett give his audience a reason to listen? What ways did he engage the audience in the introduction? Here are just a few things to think about as listening to his presentation. Did he meet the objectives of an introduction? If so, to what effect? Did he tell his audience what the presentation was about? How did he gear the information to a college audience? How did he adapt to the listener’s experiences, knowledge and interests? Did he bring audience involvement by personalizing and connecting to the audience? How did he help his listeners through his presentations? Did you hear previews, internal summaries and transitions? How did he create a presentation that was geared for the ear and not the eye? What kinds of verbal devices and language were utilized? Did he design an effective conclusion? Summarize your thoughts to this presentation. Gear your comments to specific, detailed examples and application to engaging your audience for effective communication. What are your overall thoughts about his platform? Comments are due by Friday, September 18th at the start of class.

Chris Daggett's Website

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Anyone Can Be Funny - The Entertainment Speech

Anyone be funny. Yes, really. It isn't what you say but how you say. There are five techniques to humor that we will apply in our first speech. It will be your task in the first speech to use a minimum of three of the five techniques one time.

The Five Techniques to Humor:
1. Using Yourself
2. Using Others
3. Pulling the Peg/Changing the Switch
4. Building Bridges
5. Element of Surprise

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How many times do you hear one of more of these techniques being applied in the clip below? Please post your commentary to this clip by Friday, Sept,11 2009 class meeting. What kinds of techniques do you find yourself using when creating humor in your conversations?
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