Presentations

I had my "maiden" technical presentation (since I joined this dept) done today and thank God it went smoothly!! Yay! Was initally quite anxious about it, like I was preparing for my FYP presentation. Ha ha, wasn't "grilled" as much as I had anticipated. Whew! I believed God has answered my prayers and cause my big boss to be in a good mood today, so she did not ask too many questions =) Basically, the meeting members were very participative in the discussion of subject matter and I did not have to shoulder too much of the spotlight... hee.

I have been busy preparing the slides and content of the presentation for the past few days, and it is indeed a load off my chest, for now, bearing in mind that this is just a preliminary assessment. The big technical assessment is yet to be completed and it will need to be presented at this forum, and even to the higher Mgmt and M even ... Duh, shall take one step at a time.

Oh well, after today, I have a better sense of what my job entails. Besides the number crunching, and working with simulation softwares, I will prob have to devote a large amount of time to preparing the figures to present to bosses. And for every layer of boss I clear with, I will have to incorporate the comments to the slides. I have a boss who is also our technical advisor, and I am really impressed with some of his insigtful questions and comments. Have lots to learn from him.

With the many opportunities to carry out presentations to bosses and boss's boss, I foresee that my presentation skills will be honed, and I will learn to be more confident (and fluent with technical jargons) when presenting. Not a bad thing eh, except that I will prob be quite stressed and stretched when each presentation draws near. Of course, after each smooth delivery, I will feel an immediate sense of relief and accomplishment, like a released "stress ball", just like what I'm feeling now =P