Table 2.

List of Interview Questions for Expert Speakers

Interview Questions
1. How frequently do you engage in public speaking?
2. Do you ever speak to non-behavior-analytic audiences? If so, how do you tailor your presentations for such audiences?
3. What is your philosophy on the use of visual aids? Or how do you feel about the use of visual aids?
4. Do you use visual aids? If so, how do you approach developing them, such as PowerPoint slides, for a public speaking event? If you do not use visual aids, why not?
5. Do you use speaker notes or scripts? If so, how do you use them?
6. How do you practice or prepare for a public speaking event?
7. Do you now, or have you ever, experienced nervousness, anxiety, or fear around public speaking? If so, what do you do to address this?
8. What do you consider to be the most important vocal verbal behaviors of an effective public speaker?
9. What do you consider to be the most important nonvocal verbal behaviors of an effective public speaker?
10. Do you believe that it is important for behavior analysts to be effective public speakers? Why or why not?
11. Do you ever train or mentor others around effective public speaking? If so, what strategies do you use to train effective public speaking repertoires? What strategies do you use to evaluate performance?
12. What are the most common public speaking errors or problems you see when observing others?
13. What do think are the most common controlling variables associated with those errors or problems?
14. If you were going to give one piece of advice to a novice public speaker, what would it be?
15. Is there anything else that you would like to share with us about your public speaking experiences?
16. Who are 3–5 behavior analysts you suggest others watch as a public speaking model and why?

Note. Questions 1–15 were asked vocally during a semistructured interview with the expert speakers, and Question 16 was sent to the experts in a follow-up email.