When speaking, attend to the follow attributes of identity:
What are some DOs and DON’Ts when the audience:
Consider your audiences’ beliefs, attitude, values:
Rokeach argues that values come in two types: terminal values [life goals] and instrumental values [achieving life goals] (Gunn 2017, loc. 125)
We cannot say to 10% of the population that you can’t have that right [to full civic participation]; that your children can’t have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the streets and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that. (Kennedy in Gunn 2017, loc. 115).
Search your memory or the web for a similar instance of unintentional exclusion.
Share with class.
The October 2021 Boston Marathon opened with a land acknowledgement ceremony, prompted by criticisms of marathon organizers who had scheduled the race on Indigenous Peoples Day; its extensiveness drew praise from several Indigenous people in attendance. (James 2022)
Also: How do you feel about people self-describing before they speak in professional presentations?
What are some DOs and DON’Ts when the audience:
Write down what you think are the three most important tips for when giving a public speech?
What were your three most important tips for when giving a public speech?