How to do public presentations?

There is no unique formula for a succesful presentation, there are some recommendations that are effective. Any executive or any person shall be liable to face the public and that can produce success and recognition as a professional, business men or student.

Some useful steps to do a good presentation are:

1. Prepare the conference selecting the most important information and find out about the latest developments. 
2. Introduce yourself,, but do it in 25 or 30 seconds, without exaggeration and without arrogance.
3. Explain very briefly how it will develop the conference and how long.
4. Use aid, like videos, impressions, etc.
5. It is important to have the attention of the audience. Find real life examples, anecdotes, jokes or double-meaning, use terms easy to understand. A characteristic of the good speakers is: they make a pause in the key moments of the presentation.  
6. Look to the public, don't focus exclusive in the documents at hand or make the mistake of sticking to the images on the projector.
7. Inspire confidence and project animation.  
8. Interact. Ask if there is all clear, and make brief conclusions.
9. When finished, do not just say thank you very much. Made a courtesy thank you all,  make available material and provide basic information such as your e-mail, website or blog.
10. At the end, try to feedback and improve the error made in the last presentations.

So as a conclusion, I think a good public presentation depends in the confidence and hability of the speaker. He has to attract the attention of the audience and algo seems nice. He also has to avoid boring the audience and make the presentation the more funny (depending on the topic) and interesting he can.

Do you have Leadership Potential?

Areas to improve

The test result was 77, so even according to the analysis of the test itself is a good result, however there is still a considerable scope for improvement. This means that although I own ability to convey the views or goals of a company or any other activity to the other people, I can improve still more the way to go. Here, it seems that to improve this aspect I could try to interact more with people and understand their way of thinking, with the objective of inform them in an easier way  how to achieve goals. I think this aspect can be improved being a little more outgoing and open minded.

The Leadership Motivation Assesment

How motivated are you to lead?

The first and most basic prerequisite for leadership is the desire to lead. After all, becoming an effective leader takes hard work. If you're not prepared to work hard at developing your leadership skills or if, deep down, you're really not sure whether you want to lead or not, you'll struggle to become an effective leader.

 RESULTS

Total = 56

Score Interpretation

Score	Comment
14-27	This implies a low motivation to lead
28-55	This implies some uncertainty over your motivation to lead
56-70	This implies a strong motivation to lead.

 Source: This set of questions was constructed for this self-assessment and for illustrative purposes only. No prior validation work has been conducted that enables us to address the construct validity of this assessment. This self-assessment was patterned after that of A. J. DuBrin in Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills (2nd edition) (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998). Pp. 10-11.

Armed with the results from this self-test, your next step depends on your situation.

If you have found that you're strongly motivated to lead, and you're already a leader – great! And if you're not already a leader, this is definitely an area you should investigate as you plan your career development.

On the other hand, if your score indicates that you don't have a strong motivation to lead, and you're considering moving into this area, you may want to look at other career options before you make a decision. Our article on Finding Career Direction will help you work through a process to find out what type of work does motivate you.

But if you're already a leader and you're just going through a low patch in the role, try out leadership motivation tools and regain the enthusiasm for the job that took you into leadership in the first place!

Areas to Improve

The results show that I have already a strong motivation lead, however, it is necessary to improve further becausa the results are almost at the limit. This mean according to the analysis that shows the test, I need no have more enthusiasm an motivation to develop some tools to make leadership a priority in my life. Summarizing, the area to improve is the motivation of leading, directing and desire to be satisfied with the job. I think a good way to improve these aspects is reading any book related to motivation o try to fin all the positive aspects of being a leader and identify actions to take.

Programming and Control of the Laundry's Production in the General Hospital San Juan de Dios

Introduction

In Guatemala the General Hospital San Juan de Dios plays a very important roll. As a public organization or entity, it must bring to the poblation a quality service and it's responsible of the guatemalans' health. As part of my final practices of the Industrial Engineering career, I have been assigned to help in one of many problems that the authorities of the Hospital have in the diary operation of the one.

So, they have identificated a need, that in this case is to fix the disorder and decontrol of the production in the laundry department; and they went to the University for find some students that could solve not just this problem, but also a lot of different others.

  

Context

The laundry department of the General Hospital San Juan de Dios have many problems, it is disrupted, disordered, the people don't count with safe working conditions, they are unmotivated, etc. The origin of these problems starts in the organization of the whole Hospital, because it has excessive procedures just for make little changes and this affects the desires of improve.  The people responsible of this department (the assistant manager, the manager, etc) have a lot of good ideas, but in most cases it not depend on them to decide wheter to buy. This affects the power not only to buy some new necessary things, but also the power to reward or punish the operator who deseves it.

In the department, it is necessary to analize all the activities and make studies, with the objective to obtain a general vision of the situation and try to solve it; this using the different tools given by the engineering faculty as flowcharts, time studies, travel diagrams, industrial hygiene and safety, etc. Doing the mentioned studies we can understand the process, the problems and then we can implement some action plans.

Population Targeted

It could be said that maybe all the poblation of capital city at some time could be targeted, because we don't know when we will have an accident or get a disease and need the services of the hospital. Now, talking about people that are already hospitalized, of course they are the most benefited ones, they will have clean clothes, and this contributes to their rehabilitaion and confort.

 

Institutional Framework

The project then, it's developed in the laundry department ubicated in the bottom floor of the second tower. It's first just a improvement proposition waiting to be accepted and launched, but it could be an important step for a total change. This means also, there are no funds or money prepared or destinated to be expended until the project gets into the authorities hands and give their approval. So, the one who is developing the project is me and I'll try to reach important conclusions to make the department a better one.