Presentation

I had a major presentation on the 7 of November which takes up 20% of my overall Effective Communication module grade. As expected, I was extremely nervous regarding the presentation. Leading up to the day, my groupmates and I made ample preparation for the presentation - spending nights editing and vetting our slides, ensuring that we have applied what we had learnt in our Effective Communication class into our presentation. From my last presentation, I was told that I spoke too quickly as I was too anxious. Each of us were given 5 minutes to present, however, with the amount of content I was required to deliver, the time-limit was a challenge. On the day of the presentation, I controlled my pace but felt some tremble in the tone of my voice at the start of my presentation. I calmed myself down by taking a deep breath and got myself comfortable with the stage. During my internship stint at Walt Disney World, I had done spiels on boat rides to thousands of guests and thus, I feel that I should be more competent and have more confidence in speaking to the public. During the Question and Answer session, I felt more comfortable standing in front of my classmates and interacting with them. Through their intelligent questions and constructive criticisms, it got me thinking more about the solutions that could further improve my project solution. Overall, I feel that I could have done better by presenting the project professionally. In addition, in times of nervousness, I need to be able to use complete sentence and articulate proper sentence structure to be able to allow my audience to better get my message across to them. In conclusion, it was a wonderful and invaluable experience and I had fun working with my groupmates. I am thankful to be given the opportunity to share my project with my enthusiastic classmates.