Out
of class Presentation: Addiction, the Impact on Loved Ones
I do group training every workday at
Walmart Distribution called “start-up meetings”. Honestly my initial reaction
to this assignment was to hand out an evaluation at the beginning of one of
these trainings. I knew better than that.
My “out of class” speech was
actually done in our classroom (Boeing) on a weekend after school hours. A
group of students met together for the purpose of completing the out of class
presentation.
I had slides and an oral
presentation prepared on the impact of drug addiction on the family. I shared a
personal story about one of my loved ones who is struggling with addiction. The
feedback I received from the evaluation was mostly about my presentation;
slides were not up long enough, sometimes I stood in the way of them. My claims
were supported within the slides, but the font was too small to read who/ what
was represented.
There was one surprise. The topic of
addiction hits close to home, so I had to stop once or twice to gain composure.
I didn’t expect that. Since all of my slides were timed, I had to ‘catch up’ to
where the slides were; in an effort not to ‘self-check’ I got ahead of some
slides. The lesson I learned was; if I am going to use an emotional persuade that
is close to the heart, I need to keep my slides set to advance on ‘click’. J
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