Ok, during this week, we had some presentation in our M COM class, and all groups did super great I believe. While the presentations were happening, our teacher asked for some feedback from the students in class. We did have some great feedback, in fact, I was able to learn so much from that class that I am actually trying to apply those things not only in business presentations, but also in some others aspects of my life. 

One of the feedback some of the groups received, was really the one that caught my attention for two main reasons. First, because of this:

It's funny, isn't it? How many "but umm" did Robin does in this interview? I don't know, I didn't count, but sure that was a lot.

Second reason, some of us, (or many) has the tendency of repeating many times certain word in a short amount of time. When someone gave that feedback in class, I automatically remembered of this episode in " How I met your mother ". 

"But umm", "like", "stuff", "you know", and etc. These are things that we do not realize, but it happens with us and we usually do not notice mostly because we perhaps are too distracted to pass the message to the audience, but the audience surely notice that.

The hard thing is that we, the speakers, do not realize that. We do not notice these repetitions and we keep going on. So how can I improve that if I do not notice that I am doing this mistake during my speech?

Well, one of the things I can think of, it is that, if you prepare well yourself to give a speech, you are more likely to notice these mistakes during your presentation. The reason why is that perhaps you will know much better the content, so you will have less tendency to commit any mistake, and if you commit any mistake, you will notice and be able to fix that still in the speech without losing focus of what you are saying.

I have problems with that, but now that I am aware of these mistakes, I will be able to avoid them in future presentations. Like I said before, I am usually committing mistakes with English and because of that, I become more hesitant when talking to people, and that is when those "but ummm" appears. Now, I can work on that, and hopefully improve the level of my presentations.

If you have any ideas of how I can overcome that problem, I would be more than happy to hear it. As an student, I am sharing my thought most likely to hear your feedback, and learn from you.

Thank you.