Analysis on Swmithirai Penerant Speech on Time Management

In her speech, Sumithirai Penerant, who is a student wanting to achieve NVQ in business administration, talks about time management. Her main aim is to give some tips about how to organize time efficiently. Overall, this is not an effective presentation which does not have a proper introduction and conclusion part. In my report, I will analyze Penerant’s speech in depth in terms of organization and content, delivery and visual aids.

Firstly, in the introduction part, the presenter greets the audiences, introduces herself and the topic she will be covering. However, she does not provide an overview of her speech and does not use any attention getting techniques. Without using any signposts or transitional phrases, she switches to the body part of the presentation. The ideas expressed in the body part are like suggestions about time management instead of subtopics and there is no clear-cut distinction between them. The presenter uses very similar explanations for each. It would have been better if she categorized them under the same subtopic. Since she did not do so, the speech sometimes lacks a logical progression of ideas and becomes confusing. In addition, she uses only examples so as to support her ideas. Although the use real life examples is a good way to provoke the attention of audiences, the overuse and similarity of the examples make the speech less interesting for the listeners. Following the body part, the speech does not have a conclusion at all. She does not summarize the main points, leave the audience with a memorable message or does not invite questions without the interference of the instructor. All in all, the presentation is very weak in terms of its organization and content.

Secondly, the presenter does not ...

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...s is a kind of repetition of ideas and an indicator of disrespectfulness to the audiences. Another mistake that the presenter makes is pointing the slides with her hand. At this point, she could use a laser pointer instead of her hand since this would provide a more suitable image. Furthermore, if the presenter had controlled the transition from one slide to another herself, she could have been more successful.

In my opinion, the presenter seems as if she did not prepare for the presentation well. The presentation is like a daily conversation between friends and is not credible since she did not provide any references regarding the statistics. The only lesson I can infer from the presentation is that if we want use time effectively, we need to prioritize some tasks over the others. My suggestion for her is that she should learn parts of an effective presentation.