Self Evaluation : presentation
I can go to Genting this weekend! This was the first thought that came into my mind once I’ve finish the presentation. Hehe. I thought I can went there last weekend, relax breath the fresh cold air that might remind me of Brastagi, but turn up my group still hasn’t finish all yet, so well, pending.Suddenly I just wanna go to mountain cold place, refreshing, breath fresh air, see and engage with nature. Like how I used to go Brastagi almost every weekend last time. Though last time it doesn’t have any theme park, and later on when Mikie Holiday came, I still like to go there for the environment and fresh air only.
Tonight is full of learning and mostly concentrate on strategy I think. Well, after the rehearsal and the presentation, I can see the difference of me half year ago and now, in presenting and also teamwork.
I’m gonna start with me half year ago when I took APIP (Advertising Professional in Progress). I worked in a group with the other 3 Funkers for one of the project. I didn’t really contribute much for I just did a bit of the research and I was more like a follower in terms of giving idea for the strategy. I didn’t really think it myself and more to take it for granted of what others said. I rarely share my opinion. In the end, I didn’t master or know our subject and strategy well. When it comes to presentation, I just took small part in it and worse, I can’t remember what’s in the slide. So I was like just reading from the slide itself and hiding myself behind the table. Like a siput or turtle that not dare to come out from the ‘house’.
Then came Cause To Champion (CTC) and I have to stand on my own feet. Pahlawan tunggal. I got problem with my research and keep changing the target audience. Even last minute changes and not sure of what I was doing. Again while presenting, I keep look on the slide especially the support part when I read it directly from the slide cos I didn’t know how to say those biologic term in my own words.
Half year later which is now, I see that I’ve play a bigger role in the group compare to what I did last time. Though at first, I was still not so open but as time goes by, I share more. There is a joy when someone talk and another party listen, when there is a take and give. Things become balance.
Every week we review and change and write. The more I talked about it with people and the more I write the strategy, the more I remember about it. Maybe it’s not the best strategy that can work, but as I always talk about it, think about it, write it, the seed is planting in my head. From one word Ovaltine, it grows bigger and wider like a tree full with leaves (info and knowledge).
When it was about to rehearse, I try to practice and memorize the strategy’s slide but I stop in the middle. Cos of me being so perfectionist that each time I practice one part, I don’t feel good about it and repeat again from the beginning. After a few times repeat until target audience only, I felt bore and just let it go with the flow. Well, getting nervous and stress up before presentation isn’t a good thing too. It just like exam, the more nervous and stress we are, the harder the exam become.
This time I choose to be relax and just go with the flow. When rehearsal, I can feel that I talk quite smooth, at least I don’t keep look at the slide. The strategy thing is like grow in my mind, the tree. And I just need to deliver it in words. How good this feeling is. Though the way I present isn’t match with our concept yet. But well, there is an improvement there.
Tonight on the real presentation day, I’m kinda shaky and nervous at the beginning and not so confident. Well, the fact that I wear so casual as an AE that will present in front of panelist (they are people from client, account and creative side) kinda affect me. Although still help able (got this word ah?), cos my heroic lovely boy went to KL Sentral and bought a dress or wateva it called for me before the presentation start, but others don’t like the color and how it matches with the jacket and so on. Wateva, as long as it doesn’t look so casual, somemore for me the show and how we present is more important then whether the outfit looks good or not. Well, it’s secondary thing.
Another thing, I have to be in size 3 shoes during the presentation (Anyway,Thanks Phoebe!). Cos I wear a slipper at first! OMG! I’m really out of my mind. Well, a good learning though.
Finally I have time to go Subang and have my hair cut again tomorrow. Yeay!
Much much thanks to Janet for the words, the jacket, everything; Esther for helping me with the clothes; Phoebe for the shoes; the 2 boys in my group, Mark and Jiann Rong, good job guys, a great pay off for a wonderful job that you guys had done, and you can have your internship peacefully without have to take leave so often from now on Mark, hehe; and to everyone for the support. Last but not least, my boy, for always live the spirit of when there is a will, there is a way. I’m surrounded with love~!
