Final Reflection

How time flies! I can still remember the first lesson of Professional Communication like it was yesterday! Before I know it, its the end of the semester already. Looking back, I feel that I have really learned lots of things from this module. 

Two things that I have really learn from this module are oral presentation skills and interview skills.

This module requires a lot of presentation which includes the formal and the trial run. With each practice, I can feel myself improve little by little. Feedback and pointers from classmates make me realize what my usual oral presentation is lacking. I now know that my presentation needs to be more enthusiastic and cheerful. Not only that, I am able to witness superb presentations from classmates like Fiona and Sher Lynn. From them, and the feedback given to me by my peers, I am able to improve my presentation skills, which I am happy and thankful for.

I think that it is good that this module includes a mock interview. Just from that mock interview alone, I now feel more confident towards job interviews. This, I think, is due in part to my group mates Sher Lynn and Qi. Both of them can speak really well and can handle whatever tough questions that are thrown their way. Sher Lynn with her numerous job interview experience and Qi with his internship experience provide me with valuable and important tips. These includes how to answer interview questions in a way that is honest and diplomatic, how to speak using a more professional instead of a more casual way, how to inject my personality into the answers and not just giving textbook style answers. A majority of these tips have also been covered by Dr Jaidev in class.

All in all, this module has provide me with many benefits. I will definitely recommend it to my friends:)

Reflection on Oral Presentation

After a nerve-wrecking 30 minutes on Thursday, Oral Presentation is finally over!

Let's do a bit of evaluation.

Overall Team Presentation

Strengths:
I feel that overall, the team is well-prepared. In terms of slide transition, speech flow and the handing over of presentation part to the next speaker.

Even though the three of us have different distinctive style of presentation and speech flow, we manage to make sure that the pace of our presentation throughout is more or less consistent. Also, all of us manage to convey our enthusiasm in our proposal!

Weakness:
I feel that we did not make full use of Prezi.com. I have the feeling, as I have mentioned to Charles that Prezi was not fully optimised by us. I am sure that Prezi.com has a lot of wonderful tools and functions but we have only just touched the tip of its iceberg. However, for a first attempt and due to time constraints, I am quite happy with our slides. Kudos to Qi who is the IT savy one in our group!

Individual - My own

Strengths:
Smooth delivery of the presentation (thanks to numerous practices at home with my bored sister as the audience).

Oh, one thing that I am quite happy is that I have manage to inject enthusiasm in my presentation! Usually when I present I am quite monotonous or lifeless. So I quite proud of my own achievements.

I have also tried to make eye contact with everyone in the class but I don't know if its obvious.

Weakness:
I have to smile a bit as feedback is that I am too serious to the point that people is saying I am fierce! I remembered about enthusiasm but forgot about the smiling part...oh well..

I felt that certain parts in my speech I should have pause a bit more. But I was too nervous so I ended up giving only a short pause when it could have been longer to emphasize my point.