audience perspective

Today we watch the rest of the class do their presentations, I think that it went really well, I got a lot of ideas so if I ever have to do a presentation again, I would change or do things a little different. I almost felt like I should have Incorporated something besides just the power point, like a hands on. not sure how I would have done that on motorcycles but now that I've seen a few different styles I think there has to be a way. The presentations on "how to" were really fun and captured the attention of the audience, more exciting I guess you could say. After today I think I'm a little disappointed I felt like maybe I could have been more creative, or done a better job. I do think that the hardest part of this assignment for me was choosing a topic!!
All the presenters that went today, did a marvelous job. talking clear, eye contact, poise, etc. Good job presenters..

Self Reflective

My self reflective opinion of my presentation today is overall I feel good, I agree that the first
few minutes were the hardest to get my body to adjust then after I got going, things settled in
and I got a little more comfortable. I think I maintained my posture as well as eye contact with
my audience .
I felt like my introduction was about me and was meant to establish credit, I think that I could
have went more into depth about my experience. I feel like I talked about all my main points
and got across what I wanted, I think I could have put my main topics on my PowerPoint so
they could be visually seen, however I did verbally say them with what I think was clear and
articulate speech. I felt like my transitions went across smoothly.
After seeing everyone else's presentation I wish I would have got a book that had more pictures
for the audience to see, especially since there was so much information that could have been
talked about but I didn't want it to be boring, so I didn't want to talk into depth about the history.
I did feel like this presentation was a lot easier than the first one we did in this class about the chapters. I think because I had more time to prepare I was confident in the information I was giving to others.
It definitely was not as bad or as long as I thought it felt like it was going to be.

leadership styles and strengths

I view my leadership style as being passive-assertive, really I just be me and do the best to my ability all the time. Its like the social mirror if your being positive and working hard, others will hopefully pick up that vibe and want to follow your example. I like to avoid conflict at all cost so I always try to make everyone happy.
I feel that my strengths are I'm very dependable, I try to do things right the first time, I'm not afraid to ask if I need help or if I'm just not sure of something. I try to stay on top of things so that it keeps less work for everyone. I would say I'm also very organized.

communication 101

One thing I would like to improve on with my communication is to be able to organize my thoughts while in a conversation, I start out knowing what I want to say but then in the heat of the movement, the most important time during the discussion I lose my train of thought and forget the majority of what I was thinking. For example in class as I'm following along I will be thinking of scenarios or answers but then if I'm called on I get nervous and cant think out what was in my head. the panic takes over. So my goal is to learn to control my own body not to let it control me...



communication 101

Blogging

So this is my first time blogging.. I'm overwhelmed with excitement.... YAY!!!