Day 24

Monday, February 25, 2008

Today was a great day. We presented a business trend in Professor Miles' Communication class (mine was on the use of irradiation in meat safety). The goal was to choose a company and persuade their board of directors (played by our classmates) to implement our proposed solution based on the trends we had identified and analyzed within their business. During the presentation "the board" was to interrupt us with questions and generally try to make us think on our feet. I think I did fairly well, though if anything I think I overprepared the speech and should have spent more time simply absorbing the facts. I actually preferred being asked questions during the process and didn't find it distracting at all. To go along with it we had to prepare a PowerPoint that followed all of the new rules we've learned, so that it magnified our persuasive power and was directly on point, rather than being a distraction.

I really felt relieved to have this and a few other things behind us. I've been playing a bit of catch up since going home to visit and I now feel like I'm back on my game.

We also posted our results for the first four weeks of FIMSIM and my team is number 1! Hopefully it's not fleeting and we can maintain or increase our lead. My team works together extremely well and we're learning something new with each decision we make.