Ele3706 How to Communicate with the Audience During the Presentation

Final Written Reflection

Grechishkin Maxim

ELE 3706

Persuasion and Dialogue for Leaders

BI Norwegian Business School

Spring 2019

Use the following guideline to assist in the writing process.

1) Written Reflection: Submit on Its Learning 4 – 8 pages, (submit as a Word file)

2) Save document as: ELE3706_Surname_First Name_FWR

3) Use this preformatted template, be sure to click on the header to add your name

4) Use terminology from the course (e.g. mutual learning model, ethos, logos, pathos, fallacies, rhetorical devices, etc.) when discussing course content.

Your discussion should include something from a – d:

a. You

i. What you learned

ii. How do these skills/does this knowledge transfer to the business world

iii. How you used what you learned in class and out of class

iv. What you learned from receiving and delivering peer-feedback

v. What would you do differently

vi. What you could have done better/self-critique

vii. Did you learn what you hoped you would earn

viii. Expectations of the course vs. lived experience of the course

ix. What challenges if any did you overcame

x. Key takeaways from the course, class, your experience

xi. What you learned about yourself

b. Course and professor

i. Most helpful classes and workshops

ii. Least classes and workshops

iii. What was good about the course and professor

iv. What could have been better course and professor

c. Briefly review the course literature – which were most helpful, which were least helpful and why.

i. Nancy Duarte. 2010. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences.

ii. Noonan, William R. 2007. Discussing the undiscussable: a guide to overcoming defensive routines in the workplace.

iii. Garr Reynolds. 2013. Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations (2nd Edition).

d. Discuss suggestions for improvements

In this course I have learnt how to be persuasive, and how to communicate with the audience during the presentation, with the help of different communicative instruments, you have to use the gesticulation not much, but in the same time not less, learnt meow can we use the voice some time speak louder or quitter because it attracts people attention and they will listen to you anyway. Also this course taught me how to keep calm during the presentation even if you are nervous, to breath to become as calm as it possible or to do some active exercises that will upper your heartbeat, it depends on the discomfort that you feel in front of the audience. And the most important thing is that during your presentation you should be sure about all the data that you have, because you have made a great research on current topic and you should know it better than the others.