Speaking candidly during a press conference or interview, during or after a crisis, can get you in “hot water” before you can even realize it. However, doesn’t your ability to speak candidly determine how the public will not only judge you, and your organization, but you will be reviewed when the dust settles and the crisis passes?
A) What tools and techniques, that we discussed in class and from your reading, can be utilized by the spokesman to demonstrate full transparency and disclosure yet avoid over-talking and giving excessive details?
The first technique that speaker can make use of to make sure that they enhance transparency in their speech is lobbying. Lobbying is a process that is mainly concerned with influencing. In this case, …show more content…
The speaker needs to have a very deep knowledge of the topic they are going to talk about so as to be able to present information in a manner that is clear to all. Lack of enough knowledge on a topic leads an individual to a lot of vagueness which makes the message not only unclear but also understandable. Having deep knowledge on a topic is also very important to help answer any questions or make any clarification that may be requested by the audience (Anthonissen, 2008).
The second element in creating a clear and concise message is organization. An individual could have factual and very good information about a given topic. However, it is very difficult to pass the knowledge or fact to other individuals whether in an oral or a written manner if the information is not properly organized. The message may fail to be clear due to the confusion that the audiences face. Proper organization enhances the flow of facts, and this consequently leads to more clarity of data.
The final element that helps to create more clarity in a message is the presence of supporting information. Sometimes information presented may be hard to understand or may too little for an audience. This creates the need to have more supporting information for the data to help in explaining further. Support information helps to provide a descriptive basis and offer more insight and context into a
A) What tools and techniques, that we discussed in class and from your reading, can be utilized by the spokesman to demonstrate full transparency and disclosure yet avoid over-talking and giving excessive details?
The first technique that speaker can make use of to make sure that they enhance transparency in their speech is lobbying. Lobbying is a process that is mainly concerned with influencing. In this case, …show more content…
The speaker needs to have a very deep knowledge of the topic they are going to talk about so as to be able to present information in a manner that is clear to all. Lack of enough knowledge on a topic leads an individual to a lot of vagueness which makes the message not only unclear but also understandable. Having deep knowledge on a topic is also very important to help answer any questions or make any clarification that may be requested by the audience (Anthonissen, 2008).
The second element in creating a clear and concise message is organization. An individual could have factual and very good information about a given topic. However, it is very difficult to pass the knowledge or fact to other individuals whether in an oral or a written manner if the information is not properly organized. The message may fail to be clear due to the confusion that the audiences face. Proper organization enhances the flow of facts, and this consequently leads to more clarity of data.
The final element that helps to create more clarity in a message is the presence of supporting information. Sometimes information presented may be hard to understand or may too little for an audience. This creates the need to have more supporting information for the data to help in explaining further. Support information helps to provide a descriptive basis and offer more insight and context into a