Sunday, September 1, 2013

Wednesday August 28th: PCU Orals Part One

I can't believe our professional communication oral exam is in 24 hours! Basically, the group has to present the findings, conclusions and recommendations from our sustainability report to a panel of examiners. The company we chose is called Jeffrey Stein Sales, a toy company located in Observatory. We were asked to serve as consultants for this company and prepare an investigative report on their environmental, social and financial responsibilities.

Each member of our group will speak for approximately 3 minutes, for a total presentation time of about twenty minutes and some change. Since my group is notorious for writing extra long reports, the challenge for us tomorrow is finding a way to condense our report and not go over time. This exam makes up a significant portion of our final grade for the course. So as you can imagine, we are all a little bit anxious about doing well. We had our group rehearsals last week which was very helpful as we got lots of valuable feedback. Some of the comments we received were: to shorten our power point slides, to not read from note cards and to make our sections more integrated. 
Is there such a thing as over-practicing? Well not when it comes to public speaking events and rehearsing for an oral exam. We have practiced a few times but for some reason I still feel a tad bit nervous about all of us presenting tomorrow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that everything will go well. The exam is at 3 pm tomorrow. Stay tuned for updates.





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