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The Oral Presentations Of Organizational Leaders

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1. Biehl-Missal uses theater theory to explore the oral presentations of organizational leaders in terms of their attractiveness and persuasiveness. In your opinion, how much impact and what kind of impact do lighting, settings, special arrangements, color, pictures, and proximity have on the effectiveness of a presentation?

As Kimberly Pace said in the “Business Speaking: Eye Contact” video provided in this week’s module, “Everything matters” (Pace 2013). After reading Brigitte Biehl-Missal’s article, “Business is Show Business; Management Presentations as Performance,” I fully agree with Pace’s closing words. Everything does matter: lighting, settings, special arrangements, color, pictures, and proximity each play a role in a presentation. Using theatre theory, Biehl-Missal clearly explained correlations between managerial presentations and a theatrical performance. It was eye opening for me, specifically in the analyses of scenography and clothing parallels.
Regarding scenography, I had never considered the implications of the stage’s height or distance between the presenter and the audience. As the study pointed out, the majority of annual general meetings (AGMs) had managers sitting at least one meter/3.2 ft. above ground level with a high podium nearby, making for the presentation of authority (i.e., king on a thrown). This distance, “contradicts the idea of shareholders as a ‘partner’ of management” (Biehl-Missal 2011). One company – Google – did not fit this mold,

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