Lessons learnt from presentation on 09/11/15

The presentation on the 9th of November was the first presentation in my uni life. It was a good transition from giving presentations in the army, as the objective of this presentation was to propose ideas and try to sell them. Whereas in the army, the objective of the briefings I gave was to cover all the points required by the organisation. 

I chose not to introduce our ideas during the introduction of the proposal as I thought it would be more impactful to hear the ideas from my group mates at a later stage. I found out after the presentation that it was a grave mistake, one that I am glad I made here as it would have been much costlier if this happened at work in the future. The whole idea of a proposal presentation is to sell the idea, so I think our group made the mistake of going into the details of the ideas instead of selling them. Our presentation could have been better suited as a follow up presentation after our proposal is accepted. 

As mentioned above, most of the feedback given to us were about our content organisation. I will try to organize presentations to suit the audience in future. 

Our content organisation may not have been the best but I feel that our delivery was good. I think the good delivery came down to rehearsing many times and understanding each other's parts well enough that we know what the other members are going to say. We practiced on over Skype during the weekends and had physical rehearsals on Monday during the 4 hour break. The physical rehearsals were the ones that made the most difference as we corrected our stance, our hand movement and a lot of the transition during slides. 

Overall, giving this presentation was a great experience and it will definitely help me give better ones next time.