It is always better to prepare ahead for any presentation,
but I was not prepared for the mock oral presentation. Our slides were
incomplete as we spent a lot of time amending our proposal draft and I was too
unprepared for it. I did not manage to rehearse my slides and straight went
into the mock presentation in which right in the beginning of my part, I blanked
out for quite a long time because I could not recall what RFID stood for. And
because I was unprepared, I became too nervous and ended up pacing too fast.
This is the first time and will be the last time that this will happen as I hope
to be able to step up confidently and speak even more fluently to catch the
attention of the audience. I will make sure that I prepare ahead of time and
rehearse more to familiarise myself with the content I will be presenting on.
During the presentation, I also realised that I need to have
more eye contact with my audience as I noticed my eye contact drifted off in
the midst of the presentation. Moreover, I feel that I can do even better in
articulating my words and points, portray more enthusiasm and passion by
varying my tone, control facial expressions and gestures. For me, it is a very natural
thing to vary my tone to emphasize on certain points but I believe that I can
do even better. I also think that when something goes wrong during my
presentation, my facial expression shows it all, which is definitely not a good
thing. I want to be able to appear calm no matter what questions or issues are
thrown at me. I also think that I can be more conscious about the gestures I make
as well, because all of my gestures were made naturally, but I think that I should
be more conscious of my actions and know when to exaggerate them.
I think that thinking in the shoes of the audience will help
me learn to be more audience-centred when I am presenting. I feel that, despite
the rushed work and shortcomings, I am really glad to have learnt more about
myself and even more from my peers as we stand against obstacles together.
Hi Arabella! I believe you can do very well in the final once we've rehearsed and prepare enough materials for our presentation, we will be more ready to face the challenge(: Rehearsing could also help with our transition during the presentation. We will pull through this together! All the best!
ReplyDeleteHi Arabella! Glad to see that you're well prepared for the presentation today as compared to your mock presentation, you definitely did great today. Your delivery was smooth and your tone was right, you have also answered the questions well during Q&A. Good job and keep it up! Cheers!
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