She is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries ' highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. She continues to be a dynamic speaker and prolific writer on such topics as private law library management, presentations and training. You're on the way to a final exam for a class you never attended. As if that were not bad enough, you are unable to find the exam room. This common nightmare morphs into reality when you are to give a presentation and do not have clear objectives.
Seasoned presenters determine speech objectives as a first step.
Novice speakers may spend hours revising and revising their material and never realize they have omitted the first step. There are two distinct phases to formulating objectives. Both are aligned with the audience. If you are speaking in your natural habitat to a group that you know, you may have the answers to these questions already. But be careful about the assumptions you make.