My Reflection on Oral Presentation

Sometimes I wonder why I speak like a machine gun when I do a prepared speech. I was not surprise to get the same feedback for this oral presentation. My friend once commented that I am a rather impatient person after looking at my handwriting. Since then, I  see it as the root cause to my machine gun talking speed. The irony is that for impromptu speech, I tend to speak much slower as it takes a while for me to figure out the words to use.

One really good feedback I got from this presentation is to pause at suitable timing for my audience to digest the ideas I presented. Most of the time, I had been a demanding speaker and expect my audience to keep up with my pace and digest all the information I said. So the next time before I present, I will remind myself that patient is a virtue I must cultivate. My audience needs time, so do I.

For the ES class, I would say all my presentations have been relatively average. We all have likely made better or worst presentations in the past. I am still struggling to consistently duplicate those good presentations I had, but the advices in this ES course certainly gave me some key pointers to improve on. Moving forward,  I would need to find channels to practice oral presentation more regularly in front of different group of audience.