For my mock presentation, I did not start with an arresting introduction, presented with only a single tone and heavily depended on the slides throughout the whole presentation. Worst of all, I was soft and could not be heard all the way from the back. These were pointed out in my oral evaluation done by my peers and lecturer. I believe all of these happened because of the lack of preparation as I did not rehearse and practice beforehand.
From this experience, with the constructive feedback from my lecturer and peers, I get to know both my strengths and weaknesses in presenting which are beneficial as I can improve on my weaknesses and not repeat the mistakes I made.
For my final presentation, I will prepare myself adequately through practicing with my team mates. Most importantly, I will familiarize myself with the content of my presentation. By doing so, I hope to be able to present more confidently, fluently and enthusiastically to engage my audience. Audience engagement is important as the main purpose of the final presentation is to persuade the audience to adopt my team's idea. Hence, with improved presentation skills, I believe I can bring my team's idea across to the audience in a more effective way.
Hi Ming Liang, Abby here!
ReplyDeleteI believe that there are plenty of opportunities left to present and thus improve. I think you did very well during the presentation as your volume, pace and tone was good. My advise on being dependable on slides would be to prepare a script! You need not memorize your script but it would give you a good idea on what to say and if you really forget, looking at the slides and using a pointer would give the illusion that you are trying to point something out in the slides, instead of referring back to it!