My First Oral Presentation.......

I have just experienced my first ever professional oral presentation in this morning and I will not forget this experience. I was not very satisfied with my performance as I did not present my points smoothly and fluently. Although I could remember my points during practicing, I have forgot some of the important points when I was doing the actual presentation. Besides that, I did a big mistake as I did not introduce my teammates in a correct order. I guess this was due to tI was nervous at that time.

Beside that, I feel that the actual presentation was very different when compared to practicing. I was not nervous at all when I was practicing but I was starting to feel nervous once I stood in front of the class. I feel a bit pressurized when presenting as the previous group did a very good presentation. However, I tried to calm down myself so that I would not screw up the presentation.

The weakness that I have realized after my presentation is I did not keep eye contact with the audience as I just kept looking at Qiying's position. This weakness will give a bad impression to the audience as it shown I am nervous at that time. Another weakness that I had during the presentation is I did not used proper English during the presentation and this will leave a bad impression to the audience. This might be due to I did not prepare any script before hand and I did not practice much. Thus, I find that preparation before presentation is very important for us to have a good and effective presentation.

Personally I feel that my group did a fairly good presentation as Vikki and Jaenette did a very good presentation in conveying the message to the audience. However, there are some minor mistakes that we have made during the actual presentation.

Last but not least, I think I need to improve my presentation skills so that I can convey clear message to the audience as well as convincing them. That's what I think about my first oral presentation!!Thanks for spending your time with us!!!=)

Final reflection........

Time really flies, now we are coming toward the end of the semester!!!!!=)It's the time for to finalize the things I have learn from ES2007S so that I can recall and remember what I have learned in the last 10 weeks about effective communication as well as professional writing skills.

The purposes that I take this module are to learn effective communication skills and to improve my English level as my English proficiency is very poor as I was studying in Chinese medium based school since primary and secondary school. Besides that, this module which does not have final examination is one of the reasons to attract me to take this module as I do not want to study too many modules during final examination (Sorry, Brad, I think I disappoint you!!!). However, I did not regret that I take this module as I have learned a lot from this modules besides English and effective communication.

Before I take this module, I had an impression that communication is just about talking and expressing feelings to each other. However, after taking this modules, I only realize that communication includes a lot of aspects such as non verbal communication, effective writing etc. Besides that, I also realize that non verbal communication such as facial expression, speaking tone, body gesture and our mood play important roles in conveying message to other people. If we use non verbal communication inappropriately, people might misinterpret it and thus miscommunication occurs. Thus, through this module, I have learned how to use non verbal communication appropriately and effectively.

Besides learning about non verbal communication, I also have learned about effective writing which adopt 7Cs principle and realize that my writing skills do not follow the 7Cs criteria. Through writing blog, job application letter, resume, research report and business letter, I have learned to adopt 7Cs criteria. Besides that, I found that I always have grammar error during writing and I think I need to improve it by reading. Once again, I would like to thank Brad for his advice on my grammar error!!!!=)

Through this module, I have experienced a "scary" mock interview which the "interviewers" looks very serious and unfriendly at all. However, when I was told this situation might be a real situation, I was quite shocked as I thought most of the interviewers will be quite friendly. In addition, I also realized that we must well prepared before interview and present ourselves during interview to impress the interviewers. However, this mock interview allow me to practice myself before the real interview that I will be attending in the future.

On the other hand, I also found that presentation also plays important roles in impressing and convincing people. I had my first time professional presentation through this module and I am glad that I have a chance to practice this type of presentation before I start working.

Overall, I feel that I have learned a lot of knowledge from this module which cannot be obtained from my core module. The knowledge and skills that I have learned not only about communication, they also include time and emotional management. Besides that, I know new friends through this module. Thus, I have gained knowledge, skills and friendship through this module.

That's all about my final reflection. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks my teammates - Vikki and Jaenatte for their efforts that they have put for the research report and presentation as well as the encouragement they have given to me. I would also like to thanks all my classmates for their valuable feedback on my work.

Lastly, I would like to say it is glad to know all of you through this module. All the best in the coming final examination!!!!=)