Both corporate and university sectors are engaged in the
teaching of communication courses. As someone who has
taught in both settings, I believe that trainers and profes
sors have much to gain from pooling ideas. With this in
mind, I first observed and then participated in a week-
long "Presentation Skills" workshop taught in a Fortune
500 company to determine what aspects of that program
might be transplanted to a traditional university public
speaking course. I then took ideas gained from the work
shop and applied them to the public speaking classes I
taught at a western university. This article is an examina
tion and discussion of this process.
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