Enhancing speaker credibility: looking to critical literacy’s “power” through strategic presentation skills

• Main Author: Tan, Daisy
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Business and Management; Speaker credibility; Business communication; Presentation skills; Critical literacy; Power; Confidence and anxiety; Gender differences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181942
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The concept of speaker credibility is proposed as mitigation to address two issues of confidence and anxiety, and gender differences, gathered from anecdotal feedback of business communication students. This article reviews the definition of speaker credibility and draws on two components—presentati...