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My group’s leader as communicator presentation is concentrating on leader being a navigator for the organization.  During the presentation, Natalia effectively talks about how leader is communicating as a direction setter.  Natalia also offers several examples for when and how should leader become a direction setter.  When she is finishing her part of presentation, she make a clearly transition by introducing me to talk about leader as transitional pilot and leader as linking agent.  I start my presentation by thanking Natalia and introducing my topics to the audience.  Overall, we have a very effective transition where we tell our audience where we are ending and where we are starting.

Generally, Natalia has a very elaborate body language where she is using her hands to emphasize the main points, and she is pointing at the power point to give examples and making her audience focus on what she is saying.  Natalia also make a lot of eye contacts to her audience to make sure everyone is paying attention and listening to her main points.  By comparison, I’m little lacking on eye contacts because of my nervousness and I rely too much on my notes.

The strength of our presentation is our contents.  We read the book materials and list a lot of different ideas on what cause the leader to become a navigator and how an effected navigator will help the organization.  We also provide a lot of life examples on our presentation to further emphasize the importance of leader being a navigator.

The thing I like to do differently next time is to have more practice time.  I believe by practicing more I will appear less nervous and will have more eye contacts with my audience.  I also like to have more time to work together with my group.  By working together more, we can help each other improve our presentation skills, and the presentation will appear more smoothly.

I’m type of the person that likes to lead by example.  When I was working as a manager on my parents’ restaurant, I was the one that is working the hardest.  I like my employees to see how the job is supposed to be done and what the expectations are for the job.  To lead by example is not always personally showing the employees how to do the job, it is also about the attitude that I bring to the work.  I will give 100% to my job, whether it’s slicing onions, taking customer orders or cooking meals.  I believe that when people are focusing, they can do a much better job on just about everything.

In all of my years as Baruch college student, I have plenty of opportunities to work in group for presentations, term projects and small discussions.  At the beginning, I really hate to work in group because I don’t communicate well with people.  Most of time, I would just follow along, do my parts and deal with it.  It is not until the later years of my school days, that I started to appreciate listening to people who has different opinion, and able to form a logical argument for their opinion.

Generally, the most challenging part of the group project is communication.  Everyone has their own style of doing things, their own timeline, and their own agenda.  Also on top of all that, we also face language barriers because Baruch is such a culturally diverse college.  Sometime it is impossible for all members of the group to work together, we often divides our responsibility into smaller parts, and assigns each member with their own share of work.  The digital communication plays a big role in communication.  Emails and text messages are the two most used ways of communication when working as group.

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