Reflective Essay on Oral Presentation

Oral presentation:

According to my understanding, the most crucial part of any kind of oral presentation is analyzing your audience and adjusting your tone accordingly. Though a few peers argue that the crucial part is about the purpose of the presentation and to include explicit research and findings to prove the idea effectively, unless I connect to the audience, I can’t make an impact on them. By conducting an audience analysis, you can gather segment information on your crowd and decide their comparative attributes, foresee their degree of intrigue and information on the subject, and their apparent mentality toward you as a credible source of data. This data and knowing the area or setting for your introduction will give rules on the most proficient method to meet the crowd's desires and decide the tone of the discourse (Englehart 2004.).

The example I stated to support my argument is ‘Ted Talks’. The speakers always address the crowd, keeping them constantly involved which helps the audience to connect to the idea through the speaker. I also mentioned my own experience during a seminar presentation where adjusting my tone created comfort between me and the audience which was incredibly helpful throughout the presentation. A few intriguing ideas my peers helped me understand is the importance of smooth transitioning, the importance of believing in our own idea and yet, encouraging positive criticism. As I’m not from an English-speaking country, watching, speaking, and writing relevant content in English could really help overcome my stage fright is one of the best suggestions given to me by my peers.

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Self-awareness and emotional intelligence:

The initial reaction to self-focused attention is self-evaluation, which can be either favorable or unfavorable. (Wicklund 1975.). Recognizing my weaknesses, strengths, biases, attitudes, values, and perceptions helps in understanding myself. Self-awareness is an important trait in a leader as they have to be spontaneous and deal with situations considering what’s best for everyone on the team. I constantly keep thinking about people and their opinions.

I took the initiative and forwarded 16 personality online tests to my teammates as a part of understanding our personalities. It really helped us see things about ourselves that we didn’t know we had. This made us understand how much scope is there for improvement. Having a good IQ is a great asset but without EQ and EI no matter how good we are, reaching the pinnacle will be a great challenge. My teammates helped me realize how much a person can impact others by improving their empathy level and also helped me see that people have strong limitations. Which made me realize how biased I am on a few religious aspects, which isn’t correct. Respecting other's opinions even if you don’t believe in them is an important aspect of self-awareness. This helped me learn that it is alright to agree that we disagree and that doesn’t make either of us wrong.

Intercultural communication:

Culture is usually referred to as something that is derived from, or created by the intervention of humans – ‘culture’ is cultivated. The concept describes both the underlying value as well as the behavior that can be observed (Dahl 2004.). Coming from a high-context cultural background my initial days in Australia which is a low-context cultural country were rather confusing. It took me time to get comfortable. While engaging myself in a conversation, I ended up offending people’s personal space by pointing out my straightforward opinions. Gradually, I evolved accordingly by understanding and respecting the culture.

In the group discussion, I stated many examples of Advertisements and Campaigns conducted by different organizations that ended up offending people all over the world. One interesting example is, that The Kurl On Mattresses in India aired a new advertisement where a cartoon version of Yousafzai is seen being shot with a rifle. The ad then shows several iterations of Yousafzai as she recovers in a hospital and ultimately goes on to win an award for her advocacy. Along the way, she falls on a Kurl-on mattress and 'bounces back.' (Fromowitz 2017.). Such Advertisements landed the companies in controversies. In this era of global integration and the constant growth of Globalization, it is very important to understand the concepts of intercultural communication. Growing up in such a culturally diverse country helps me understand its importance.

Negotiation and conflict:

I was one of the 10 students who were selected to represent my university in a campaign which is conducted in Karnataka, India. It is a 30-day campaign regarding academic research. The seniors will be selecting 2 students as representatives at the end of the first week. I was qualified and was expecting to become a representative, but I did not. My co-students told me the reason I wasn’t selected is because I am a woman and Kannada isn’t my first language. The survey and the research have to be completed in English it has nothing to do with my first language. I was offended by their biased nature. So, I went and spoke with my seniors. They offered me to be a co-representative, assisting the elected representatives. I deserved the position as a representative, but I didn’t get it, my ego was hurt, so I turned down the offer.

Now I realize that the situation could have been a Win-Win as they offered me to collaborate. But instead, I made it into a Lose-Win because of my ego. The seniors had other reasons stating why the selected candidates were good but I let my ego cloud the judgment leading to this misunderstanding and I ended up with nothing. The source of my conflict is poor communication and lack of trust the only way to resolve it is by communicating by keeping an open mind and being transparent. This unit helped me critically analyze the situation and understand how I should’ve handled the situation back then but, I will take care to avoid such mistakes in the future.

Introduction:

The company I have chosen is Nestle. Nestle has announced its new Food Grade Recyclable Packaging. Now, I am going to convey this message to the External and Internal stakeholders. The external stakeholders I have chosen are the consumers. The effects of plastic are directly been faced by the consumer so it’s important for them to know about this initiative in the appropriate way. So, the media I selected is the Press Release as it is direct, straight, and easily receivable. The board of directors has come to this decision together, they want to let the employees know about this initiative. The External Stakeholders selected here are the employees. The choice of media selected is Power PowerPoint presentation as it is face-to-face interaction and the message can be conveyed clearly according to the plan. This method will be easy to understand as the material will be organized in order to identify the main purpose and idea.

Press release:

Nestle has announced that it is going to stop using unsullied plastics and is going to introduce recyclable plastics to pack food to develop innovative packing solutions by investing up to 2 billion CHF.

Moving forward on the initiative taken in 2018 to achieve plastic-free packing by 2025, Nestle will reduce the use of plastics by collaborating with the New Plastics Economy as a core partner and will help in advancing the circular economy. (Meier 2020.).

“No plastic should wind up in landfills or as litter. Making reused plastics ok for nourishment is a huge test for our industry. We are finding a way to make a more extensive market for nourishment-grade reused plastics and lift advancement in the bundling business. We invite others to go along with us on this journey.” said Mark Schneider, CEO of Nestle. (Meier 2020.).

'We are satisfied to see Nestle submit a CHF 2 billion speculation toward making a circular economy for plastics. Accomplishing the responsibilities reported will essentially contribute towards understanding this vision” said Andrew Morlet, CEO, of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. (Meier, 2020.).

There is increased awareness that the environmentally-conscious consumer of the future will consider ecological and ethical criteria in selecting food products. As the supply of such food-grade recyclable plastics is limited, Nestle is committed to spending more than 1.5 billion CHF to pay for the raw materials required to successfully achieve this goal towards sustainability, accordingly, Nestle will take care in keeping the earnings neutral due to this initiative. (Pardo and Zufía 2012.).

Packing is vital in ensuring and taking care of items through the phases of their strategic systems. In reality, both dispensable and reusable packing containers are utilized. (Bortolini et al. 2018.).

The packaging system is the principal cause for part of the major changes such as the shell life value, the preservation, meeting with quality, safety, and nutritional requirements of the food. (Pardo and Zufía, 2012.).

Nestle has done thorough research through Nestle Packaging Sciences to come up with this innovative solution as the majority of Nestle products are food-based, usage of plastics is causing harm to the environment and sea life. (Meier, 2020.).

Presentation transcript:

As the world’s largest Food and beverage Company, we know we have an important role to play in shaping sustainable solutions to tackle the issue of plastic waste. So, Nestle proudly presents, Food Grade Recyclable Packaging! (Improve packaging performance 2020.).

We make some of the most well-known food and drink brands in the world and many of them are packaged with plastic in the interests of freshness, affordability, and safety (Brands 2020.).

The sachets, bottles, and cartons sold often end up either being burned or dumped – creating a pollution problem.

Nestlé leaves a pollution footprint of 95,000 tons per year (Laville, 2020)

The packaging system is the principal cause for part of the major changes such as the shell life value, the preservation, meeting with quality, safety, and nutritional requirements of the food.

Plastics offer a unique combination of malleability, availability, hygiene, and safety, making them ideal packaging materials. The properties of plastic polymers also provide a lot of flexibility and freedom in design, whilst being lightweight but strong, enabling the packaging to be tailored to the product. (What is Nestlé doing to tackle plastic packaging waste?, 2020)

Our vision is that none of our product packaging, including plastics, should end up in landfills or as litter, including in seas, oceans, and waterways. In order to achieve this, we have set ourselves the ambition of ensuring 100 percent of our packaging is reusable or recyclable by 2025. (Improve packaging performance 2020.).

• Develop packaging for the future
• Help shape a waste-free future
• Drive new behaviors and understanding

To further drive innovation and understanding of a circular economy for plastics, Nestlé became a core partner of the New Plastics Economy (Improve packaging performance, 2020)

The New Plastics Economy initiative represents an important catalyst on the journey to achieving a circular economy for plastics. We are pleased to be able to contribute to this work through our expanded role as a Core Partner.

This vision of a circular economy for plastic is underpinned by three main actions: (1) Eliminate unnecessary plastic items (2) Innovate to ensure that the plastics we do need are reusable. (3) Circulate all the plastic items we use to keep them in the economy and out of the environment. (Borealis, Nestlé, and Walmart join New Plastics Economy as Core Partners - New Plastics Economy (en-GB), 2020)

Nestlé Institute for Packaging Sciences is developing sustainable packaging materials. Through the Institute, we are currently exploring a range of innovations, including new paper-based materials as well as biodegradable/compostable polymers that are also recyclable. (Working towards a waste-free future, 2020)

In conclusion, the supply of such food-grade recyclable plastics is limited. Nestle is committed to spending more than 1.5 billion CHF to pay for the raw materials required to successfully achieve this goal towards sustainability. (Improve packaging performance, 2020)

Reflection:

During the research, I have understood that even though the conclusion of the message I am trying to convey is the same the choice of relevant matter varies. While developing the message for the External stakeholders such as the customers, it’s important to let them know what the company is doing and let them know if there will be any changes that will affect the customers or suppliers in any way. Press Release is a much appropriate way to send this message to the customers as the message is directly conveyed so the scope of misunderstandings or controversies is relatively less.

But when developing the message to internal stakeholders such as the Employees, it’s not just about ‘what’ the company is doing, it is also about ‘how’ and ‘why’ the company is doing it. As a part of the company, it is important to have complete knowledge about what is going on and how the decisions will or should impact the work performed by the employees. The best way to send this message is through a PowerPoint presentation as they will already be familiar with the company's intentions, motivations, and goals, it will become much easier to understand the changes that the company is adapting to and the reasons for it.

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