Strategic Management had two (2) classes: one was online, while the other was in-person. And we had different Professors for both.
For our in-person class, our lady Professor posted 50 topics on Microsoft Teams, instructed us to choose one and present it to the class when we were ready.
On my first day at her class, I had prepared a presentation, but I waited for a colleague to present first to get a feel of how it was like to present in-person in this new environment. However, no one presented that day. After the lecture, we had a group activity and my group mate chose me to present to the class our summarized findings for the activity. It was really funny, since it was my first in-person activity. Our group actually didn’t come up with anything, and I was staring at the blank paper I was holding, wishing for it to come up with some text that I could read in front of the class.
I made up a summary of our findings. I wasn’t sure if it was noticeable, but I thought at that moment that I was able to go through it with flying colors. At the end of my mini-presentation, my group mates clapped their hands in relief.
The following week, I presented to the class about “Franchising as a Growth Strategy.” Here’s the presentation and some photos taken by my fellow Filipina classmate, Princess.
For our online class, I reached out to our Spanish Professor who was kind enough to add me to an existing group who were scheduled to present in three weeks’ time. I reached out to a colleague named Alison, whom I first thought was a female, but turned out to be a male, and he added me to a WhatsApp group chat dedicated for the group presentation.
After a week of waiting for group members or leaders to assign a topic, I obliged myself to create a presentation in Canva, and sent it to the group chat for everyone to critique, suggest any revision, add ideas, or recommend any thing. Alison asked for an access to edit, added reference links to the presentation and everyone said it was a great presentation and ready to go. I then assigned slides to all of us. Imagine, we were 14 in the group, with one unresponsive member!
The presentation went well, and people in the group said their thanks and appreciation to my hard work. It was actually my pleasure, as I loved creating meaningful presentations in Canva. Here’s our final output:
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