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Reflection

Looking back on my executive overview presentation I just keep thinking about how I, and many others missed the big point. The point that we were supposed to be presenting to our executive. Many of us got caught up in the environment of the classroom and the fact that our class mates would be in attendance. I feel as though this really changed the way we looked at our speech and how it was constructed. I myself feel as though much of my information was solid and sound but the way it was presented was regrettable. I even believe the organization of the speech would have worked. In the beginning I only had the logo presented as I explained who my organization was, I did this purposely so as to no have a slide talking about the basics of my organization. There are a few problems I foresee with getting away from this though.

 

I Don't like that I would be presenting to a class that has no knowledge of what my entity is about. It seems impractical and unfair that we would put presentations on that way. I feel like we would only end up confused with each presentation and it would be hard to captivate the class as an audience. I also see this being a problem when it comes to the Q&A stage where I feel like many of the questions would end up being about "what does your company do." This would really side track much of the valuable time we had for real learning questions. 

 

On the other side of things is, "Would they get it?" Meaning would the executive get all the terms we were using. Would my exec know what a SWOT analysis was or where I Was even going with it. Would that turn them off to the fact we are trying to help them, or could it possibly even cause them to lose interest in the presentation overall. I just feel as though I would have constructed my entire presentation differently around explaining the information in a way that someone who had no prior knowledge in the research we did would understand it. 

 

These are just some thoughts I feel should be taken into consideration next time the presentation is being constructed.