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Considering Audience for Future Presentations

This lesson teaches you to plan how the same collaborative presentation can serve different listeners. You sort the beats into stakeholder, interviewer, both or cut categories before selecting three lead points for each audience type and saving the plan in your Digital Portfolio.

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    1 - Getting Started ~5 mins

    Illustration for Getting StartedIn this lesson you are applying what you already built. You will present this collaborative work again: in a workplace briefing, an interview, an open day, a course application. The content barely changes. Who is listening does.

    A beat is one move in the presentation: one claim, one piece of evidence, or one ask. Today you sort the beats of that presentation for two audiences, then choose the three you would lead with for each. The stakeholder wants the issue. The interviewer wants you.

    Open your Collaborative Task Presentation document now. If you do not have it, use the shared beat cards on the interactive and treat those ten beats as your presentation when you write Presentation Audience Shift.

    2 - Key Terms ~5 mins

    Three terms lock the sort you are about to do. Read them once, then keep them beside you while you place each beat. Remember: a beat is one move in the presentation (one claim, one piece of evidence, or one ask).

    TermWhat it means for youReal example
    Audience: the people who will actually hear or read what you present, with their own knowledge, priorities and power to act.Every beat in your presentation either serves this listener or wastes their time.A local residents' association AGM hearing a proposal versus an ETB Further Education interview panel hearing a sixty-second introduction
    Stakeholder: someone with a real interest in the issue or the solution, not in your personal story.Lead with the problem, the evidence, the cost and the ask.A Tidy Towns committee chair listening to your group's community proposal
    Interviewer: someone deciding about you: what you did, how you think, whether you would be useful.Lead with your role, your evidence and what you learned about yourself.A SOLAS apprenticeship panel asking about your role in a collaborative project

    3 - Sort the Beats, Then Choose Your Leads ~35 mins

    Part 1: the sort (about 15 minutes). On the interactive, drag each presentation beat into one of four columns: Stakeholder, Interviewer, Both, or Cut. These beats stand in for the ones in your own collaborative presentation: cost, local detail, process, your STAR role, the personal reason you picked the issue, and the rest. After a short whole-class look at two or three borderline cards, complete your own four-column sort with the person beside you. Argue the borderline cards. A card that could go either way is where the lesson lands.

    Part 2: your portfolio write (about 20 minutes). Open a document called Presentation Audience Shift in your Strand 2.1 folder. Copy your four columns from the sort (not a shared class answer). Then, using your own Collaborative Task Presentation where you have it, or the ten shared beats as your presentation if you do not:

    • list the three beats you would lead with for a community stakeholder (for example a residents' association AGM or Tidy Towns committee)
    • list the three beats you would lead with for a job or course interviewer (for example an ETB Further Education panel or a SOLAS apprenticeship panel)
    • write one line on the card you found hardest to place, and why

    Save that document in your Digital Portfolio under Strand 2.1. It is supporting process evidence for Portfolio in Action: it shows how you adapt collaborative presentation work for different listeners. It is the shape you will use the next time somebody asks you to present the same work to a different room.

    Who is this beat for?

    4 - Think About It ~10 mins

    Talk these through with the person beside you, or sit with them quietly for a minute.

    • Where did you finally place the group's process beat, and what would have to be true about the room for you to move it?
    • If you only had sixty seconds with an interviewer, which one of your three lead beats would you keep, and which two would you leave out?

    5 - What You Covered ~5 mins

    Illustration for What you coveredToday you planned how to adapt one presentation for two different rooms.

    • You sorted presentation beats into stakeholder, interviewer, both or cut.
    • You used the rule that a stakeholder wants the issue and an interviewer wants you.
    • You chose three lead beats for a community stakeholder and three for a job or course interviewer.
    • You saved Presentation Audience Shift in your Strand 2.1 Digital Portfolio folder as supporting process evidence for Portfolio in Action, ready for the next time the same work has to travel to a new audience.

    Optional stretch: rewrite the opening thirty seconds of your presentation twice, once for each audience, and add both openings under the same document.

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