Presentation Skills Essay

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Memorandum on Personal Goals for Improving Presentation Skills After taking Business Communication I, I realized some strengths I possess. When I deliver a speech, I speak loudly and clearly, I project my voice and make sure everyone in the room can hear me without any difficulty. During Business Communication II, I will enhance this strength by modulate my tone and pitch, making my presentation more appetizing to the audience's ear. Also I stand still during the entire presentation without moving around or swaying back and forth on the spot, this avoids distractions from my speech. In order to create a conversational environment, I will practice to move and walk about with hand gesture or facial expression, in accordance the dynamic of the subject presented, in this way I am keeping the audiences’ attention. The third strength is that my speeches flow smoothly and easy to follow. In my future presentations, I will adjust my pace slightly throughout the speech to make a point without changing the tempo too much, in order to keep audience interested. The most crucial area for me to improve is to not memorize my speech, since memorizing can make me sound over-rehearsed and mechanical. Therefore, I’m going to rehearsal my speech in front of a mirror or friends, and deliver my understanding to audiences. Another area I need to put more efforts on is to make consistent eye contact with my audience, not with the wall or cue cards. I will practice making good eye contact by thinking of the audience as one person. It helps me to keep my speech conversational and reminds me to maintain eye contact like I would in a regular one-to-one conversation. Last but not least, I’ve been told that I said many “um” when I tried to connect my thoughts, and it sounded so distracted and annoying. It also makes me sound unprepared. Thus, in this term, I plan to ask friends to listen to my
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