Critique of Nensa Arzuaga's workplace happiness presentation

¶ … Nensa Arzuaga's "Implementing a Happy Culture at a Workplace."

Critique and rate the speaker's use of vocal variety, vocal fillers, and jargon or slang (delivery).

Score = 1

Unfortunately, this presentation has no speaker notes. Therefore, the presentation lacks vocal variety. There is actually very little verbal content in the presentation, which requires speaker notes. Therefore, delivery comes across as being poor.

Critique and rate the speaker's introduction.

Score = 2

Rule 3 of the 12 S's in "Guidelines for Professional Communication" is specificity. Indeed, the presenter does offer a specific topic, which is how to keep workers happy or to create a happy workplace environment. Rule 8 of the 12 S's is also fulfilled, as the presenter offers an email address as contact information. Moreover, rule 5 states that the presentation should be as brief and to the point as possible. This presentation is certainly short. However, several other rules in the "Guidelines for Professional Communication" are violated. For example, there are grammatical errors such as in Slide 5: "How does your work life affects your life?" There are also content problems such as incongruity between title and content of Slide 2.

4. Critique and rate the speaker's use of visuals.

Score = 3

The speaker incorporates visual elements besides text on every slide but one, making this a visuals-rich presentation. There is ample spacing, fulfilling Rule 10 of "Guidelines for Professional Communication." Spacing helps make the slides easy on the eye. However, there are several problems with the visuals in this presentation. For example, the title slide has a picture that is hard to understand. The people in the image are supposed to spell "Team," but this word is difficult to see. Plus, the presentation is not about teams. There are other problems with the visuals, such as the graph in slide 2. The bar graph does not represent anything in particular. On slide 4, the pie chart needs to be explained.

5. Critique and rate the speaker's use of technology.

Score = 2

The speaker does not use technology to his or her full advantage, as this presentation lacks video and other multimedia elements. However, the use of a PowerPoint shows that the speaker is interested in using technology in business communications.