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Reflection On Business Communication

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Business communication, a third year course at business school. When I first enrolled in this course I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I thought to myself, “how can we have exams in this course?” When I read the outline I realized that most of this course was based on presentations and class participation. My immediate reaction on the first day of class was that this was going to be a piece of cake, little did I know this would become the course I had to put a lot of effort into. I always considered presentations to be my strong suite. This was mainly due to the fact that most of the presentations I was a part of were group presentations. These presentations became a part of my life since I was 15 years old. They ranged from 1 minute individual presentations called J.A.M (just a minute) to 1 hour-long group case-competitions between various high schools. Once I got into to Sauder I expected to give a lot of presentations. I was pretty nervous in my first year, not because of what I had to do but whom I had to do it in front of. People from all around the world surrounded me and the culture shock started to get me. Evidently I didn’t do as well as I thought in my first semester. However, I started getting used to people and started getting back into my groove. I was much better at presentations after my first semester since I knew what was expected out of me. Since then I have always had a script ready as well as speaker’s notes when I presented. Coming into this class

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