5 Criteria for an Effective Speech

A strong and confident voice is key to an effective speech.

Content which is relevant to the audience at hand is needed.

Descriptive language is needed to help audience visualize the point.

The speaker’s credibility is essential to the audience accepting the speech.

The speech must flow with a logical progression of ideas. 

Change in the Work Place

Some aspects of the work place which may help people accept change would be an understanding that change is inevitable, a creative personality, and willingness to learn.  Employees must understand that the work environment will not remain as it is.  The work environment is fluid and will continue to change.  The last two aspects go somewhat hand in hand.  The employees who are creative will have willingness to learn the changes which will happen within the work environment.

Even if the aspects which harbor successful change are present in the work environment there is no guarantee the change will be accepted.  Personal ideals and political aspirations may try to counter and or stall change which is taking place.

System Development Enviroment

                The environment in which systems are developed can have a significant impact on the deliverables.  The ideal environment for system development would be encouraging, friendly, open, structured, creative, and collaborative.  I do realize that structured contrasts open and creative but this is where a balancing act must take place.  There must be enough freedom to be creative and develop new and innovative ideas.  However, the environment must be structured enough to ensure time, cost, and any other constraints are observed.  If the environment is too structured the project could fail for lack of creativity.  If the project is too open the project may fail for ignoring constraints.  A fine and difficult balance must be observed to ensure the success of systems development.

Fishing Gear Presentation

                I had given a presentation on fishing equipment, focusing on the rod, reel, and line.  I believe the presentation went well. However I may have stumbled at some points.  More extensive preplanning and practicing could eliminate this problem in the future.  Another short coming, I believe, was the flow.  I did not have a clear direction in where I was going and revisited some topics after leaving them.  The addition of some outline note cards may help me in the future to maintain a distinct direction in my presentation.  Even with these short comings I do believe that it was an effective presentation.

Internal Politics

       It is essential to keep internal politics in mind while producing a project.  Internal politics have the ability to derail and cause a project to fail.  How are politics able to do this?  Whether they will admit it or not people have their own personalities, egos, and agendas.  The interaction between the team members must also be taken into account.  Some people may not want work or work well with other individuals.  This must be taken into consideration while assigning teams.  However, this should not scare you away from assigning teams to establish new relationships.  These interactions and personal attributes must always be taken into consideration, as they have to ability to affect a project at any time.