One of our assignments in Business Communication-2 involved presenting our views on different leadership styles followed by leaders in the industry. Me along with my team partner Vaibhavi presented on Leadership style involving building trust. After viewing the presentation on VOCAT, I was quite satisfied with the content of the presentation, however there are a few points on which I would definitely like to work upon.
While presenting, I noticed that I use fillers extensively ( a fact I was not unaware about). In the future, I would definitely like to see myself not using fillers when I am trying to complete a sentence or thinking for a better word to describe something. The other thing which lacked in our presentation was the fact that although the slides conveyed our point of view, they appeared to be quite wordy. For a diverse audience, this might cause people to not pay attention to what we were communicating as they would be busy reading out of the slides. Some of our slides also had minor spelling errors which again might cause distraction (or change the meaning of an entire sentence!!). Apart from all this the transition of content from my part of the presentation to Vaibhavi’s also could have been a little more smooth.
In order to improve my presentation skills, I need to stop using (so many!!) fillers and may be just stop when I am thinking of a better word or feel the urge to umm!! Apart from this getting a third person to review the slides before final presentation can also be helpful as it would bring out the errors which I would have easily overlooked.
Overall, I think we gave the class some real good food for thought.
Priyansha,
You do a good job of describing the presentation you developed with Mrs. Vaidya. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Nice effort.
Emmett Green