Written on 7 Dec 2017
Today both my manager and my best friend in office told me that my presentation reflected bad on me. It showed that I came unprepared to the meeting.
Well, I agree with that. Coz I only started looking at the data yesterday late afternoon for a while. And then today I only started to focus 30 mins before the meeting.
In the first place, I knew that I would keep delaying. That is the reason I asked the principal engineer last week to include me sharing the data in this week’s meeting. Because I knew that if there is no physical deadline such as having to present, then I will not prepare at all.
At the same time, it is true that I was not ready to present for larger audience. It reflected bad on me as I did not prepare enough. Somehow I did not care. I even dared to tell the audiences that I only prepared the presentation 1 hour before the meeting and will add the material later on.
That was a sign that I swing to the other extreme where I did not care at all about image from the other extreme of caring about image too much. I also tried to defend myself that at least that was better already as compared to not doing at all.
I need to remember, that was not the only solution. There is a spectrum of alternatives. For example I could set a deadline to present with my co-system integrator. So I still have a deadline to present but not to the larger audience. At least the larger audience can receive 2nd draft or even 3rd or 4th later on.
So let’s aim this coming new year to present at least a 2nd draft to the larger audience if not more.
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