The Final Speech
March 7, 2014
Week 9 finally brought to a close the long term of the EETF proposal. After countless hours of group meetings, research and constant editing, we finished our proposal last week and ended it with a final presentation on Monday. All in all I would say that the final presentation was a definite success.
The last weekend was spent constantly refining our PowerPoint slides to fit in line with what we wanted to say. Again, I was given the introduction and conclusion and although it did not have the most information needed, they were two of the most important parts due to the amount of attention statistically given to the intro and conclusion by the audience. As a whole, I prepared tremendously for the part and I felt overall it went smoothly.
More importantly, my main job in preparing for the presentation was helping my group members who felt less comfortable with presenting. Public speaking is not an easy thing to do. By constantly working to improve my “encourage the heart” leadership strategy, I was able to help my group members become more comfortable with presenting and overall that helped to make the whole presentation that much stronger. Although at points we were nervous during the presentation, as a whole we did a great job and I was very impressed with our performance.
Overall, looking back on the ten weeks as a group, I felt like we have all come a long way and it showed in the success of our final presentation. We worked efficiently the past couple weeks of meetings and collectively we improved one another’s leadership abilities. Both our ability to write, present and lead grew due to our ability to constructively work with each other and it was a great finish.