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What If? Elevator Speeches

image WHAT IF? But what if things don’t work out as shown? Test your ability to adapt your communication by watching the What if? videos and planning a response for each situation.

image How could you quickly organize your thoughts when you are unprepared and say, “Well, of course, it’s marine biology. Oh, well, you know that. Sorry”?

1. How could you quickly organize your thoughts when you are unprepared and say, “Well, of course, it’s marine biology. Oh, well, you know that. Sorry”?

image When you use complicated or vague language—“This semester we’ve been running a lot of data correlating levels of CO2 and the impact on our atmosphere”—how can you adapt to confused listeners?

2. When you use complicated or vague language—“This semester we’ve been running a lot of data correlating levels of CO2 and the impact on our atmosphere”—how can you adapt to confused listeners?