Week 7

Reflection

This weeks lecture was about preparing and delivering a presentation. This is very helpful as we have a presentation due for the end of the year as part of our coursework. In this lecture we got shown the standard slide style of a presentation such as what the presentation should start and end with, what it should outline and how it should look. I learnt what I should and shouldn't do as regards to the theme of the presentation as it is important that the audience can read the slides and that is also looks professional. Another thing I learnt that I felt would be very helpful when doing my presentation is that planning the presentation, as an alternative of just doing it as you go along, is a lot more helpful as it gives you more time to think about the information you want to add to the slide as it is very minimal. Another helpful subject was on graphs and tables as I have never added these into a presentation it was helpful to know that it is important to always title graphs, it is good to use graphs to show data rather than words, etc. I learnt a lot of small things that are usually forgotten about such as using spell checks, grammar checks, use templates for consistency, etc.


We then moved on to talk about actually presenting the slides on the presentation and what helps make you do a better job and look more professional. These included things you should do and things you should do such as memorising the slides instead of winging it. It is important that you know what is going to come next as if you run out of things to say for a slide you can then move to the next slide without pausing as this is how you lose an audience and it looks very unprofessional. Another thing we got told not to do was read from the text as it does not sound natural and also the audience can read it so speaking from your knowledge will help further explain the slide.
I was told that a good conclusion is very effective as it is the last thing the audience sees before you stop speaking so this could be the final deciding factor if the presentation was good or not. This conclusion should summarise the main points within the presentation, suggest sources for further research and ask if the audience has any questions as this will get the audience involved and more curious to ask questions about the subject of the presentation.

Teamwork

Within our seminar teams this week we focused on going into more depth with the solutions to our companies problems. We have found that t has become very hard to come up with solutions as we are dealing with such a large international company that the problems the business have are on such a large scale. These problems are mostly related to legislations set by the government as the tobacco industry is frowned upon in a lot countries throughout the globe. Within the past few years there are a lot more laws coming into legislation to o with tobacco as they are trying to stop advertising for it as it is a health hazard and is causing a lot more health problems which the government do not want. This also means that it is hard for tobacco companies such as Japan tobacco international to recruit employees due to the bad image it has in todays society.