Barry’s Reflection on Oral Presentation

Margaret J. Wheatley once said, “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful”. My recent experience in oral presentation has allowed me to critically reflect on my performance and further improve upon my oral presentation skills. By investing time into reflecting on my performance, this has enabled me to better understand my weaknesses and allow to better leverage on my strengths for future presentations. Through reflecting upon my individual performance and the comments I received from my teacher and peers, I have gained a better insight and understanding regarding my weaknesses during my recent presentation. My weaknesses in presentation has always lied in the pace and fluency of my speech, which may hinder the overall effectiveness of my presentation on a whole. Moreover, my lack of emotion during the course of my speech is also something I hope to work and improve upon for future presentations. However, through my reflections I have also realized the strengths present during the course of my presentation that I should continue to leverage upon, such as my confidence and good eye contact present during my speech, acquired through the numerous practice and mock presentations that my group and I did. Overall, I personally felt that it was through our numerous practice sessions that enabled us to do well for this presentation, and hopefully what I have learned during this oral presentation can be carried forward to subsequent presentations in the future.