Dave Liebe Business Communication

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One of Dave Liebe main points about business communication is when a person delivers a speech, they should not speak like they are reading bullet points. People sometimes speak like they are reading from a PowerPoint or index cards and this makes a person’s speech very boring. When the speech is boring, they will lose the attention of their audience. Liebe started his speech off with a story, which made me very interested in hearing what he was talking about. “Imagine the success you could experience at work if you delivered presentations, proposals, briefing, and technical reports in much the same fashion that you tell a good story at the dinner table or during happy hour” (Waldeck, J. H., Kearney, P., & Plax, T. G., 2013, p. 142)
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