Sliding in to Home

Home base is the desired end point for baseball players everywhere, when they get started on their journey around the bases all the see is home plate and how they can get there. This vision is all great and dandy for those of us who play baseball, but when I think of home I think of my safe place.

A home in presentations, as we learned in class, is some sort of something that the presenter does because they are nervous or just because it is comfortable. Most of the time time little "home plate" action is not a very big thing that is done but it is big enough. The reason that I bring this up is that many times when I am watching a presentation I notice these sorts of repetitive things that the presenter does, and a majority of the time it is distracting and I see that it makes the presenter's message lose some of its importance.

After learning about this, I started looking at myself when I present things, I actually had the chance to do this the very next day in my Portuguese class. Something that I noticed is that I have an action that I do when I present, most of the time I will clasp my hands in front of me because I don't know what to do when I present. As a result of this perception and lesson in class I am going to really pay attention to what I do when I present, I feel that if I notice things now and I practice presenting now I will be more successful in my career and my future employer will be able to be sure that I won't blow a potential deal because of a lack of credibility caused by a lack of good present skills.