Short Response to event - Assignment Example

Respond on a business event I’ve been on business event organized by Miami Technology Community for starting-up App software companies in order to present the prize pool to a better project, so event was organized generally like a presentation, but audience was separated on actually audience and jury. This separation, of course was necessary for such kind of event, but it also caused a definition of roles. I was a member of audience, an observer and though event was organized on a higher level I think there was a mistake in organization (if we consider event like a business communication).
For business communication seeking partners and collaboration in order to achieve some goal is priority. Audience was allowed to communicate in a dialog to members of software companies only before presentation speeches. I talked to some of them, asking questions, gathering information and trying to make contacts, but real interest and good questions logically appear after you’ve heard a presentation speech and understood the subject. But it was jury only allowed to ask speaker questions, so to another part of the audience the main part of the event was a monolog and we were listeners. I suppose that means audience wasn’t considered like a business partner on this event, so jury and App software companies were only interested in each other, and it makes sense according to the kind of event. But I think audience should be allowed to ask questions, because in business you need to think wider. A company can not win the prize pool, but there are potential partners in the audience, maybe. As a rule audience in such kind of events is professional orientated and someone could be interested in your project, or your company may hear an interesting question and find a partner itself. So I think taking audience into account is important, so I will in my future career.
The entire event was pretty much verbal: speakers from App software companies proclaimed speeches 10 minutes long and then answered jury’s questions, audience were listening and we all were wearing tag sticks on our chest with information we had put there etc. I was involved in nonverbal communication nodding as a response on verbal communication, shaking hands with members of software companies I talked before presentation, I was slapping hands etc. About the same did the rest of the audience and jury. Speakers used gestures, voice intonations and posed themselves differently to look confident and professional etc. But mostly I was interested in short videos that were shown as a part of presentation speeches.
Visual information has an ability to make audience remember and understand subject more fully especially in concert with speech. Most presentation videos seemed to me more like advertising, then presentation itself. I marked out video presented by Wave Interaction – a software platform, who “can convert any game into one that can be played by thousands of users at the same time” (Wave Interactions). After this video not much is need to be said. It’s bright and catchy and though it was longer than most of the other ones, it gave a fully general understanding of a project and demonstrated how things work. This was a presentation speech I had remembered particularly because of its video part. I think half of success in business communication is to present your business proposal as clear as you can, as demonstrably and confident as possible, so it’s only left for your potential partners to figure out details. It also saves your time, and time’s highly valuable in business.
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