Informative speech reflection

From the start, I found it difficult to pick a topic for the informative speech. I wanted it to be about something that would interest everyone in the class. In the past, I've definitely sat through speeches where the topics were not very stimulating or applicable to me personally and will admit that I let my mind wander. I did not want that to happen to my audience. 

After I found my topic, Uber, the easiest part was deciding what I wanted to focus on as my main topics. It has been a topic of discussion in various business classes of mine and I wanted to break down why it was such a successful start-up. I also did not know much about the company; I've been on one Uber ride and it was a friend of mine who had the app so I really had no personal tie to the company other than the fact that I was curious. 

The formal outline had both positive and negative aspects for me. It guaranteed that I knew what I was going to talk about and almost forced me to find appropriate and credible sources, which was helpful. On the other hand, it took away from the extemporaneous aspect of the speech because I kept relying on my formal outline when practicing and had to try really hard to not memorize the whole thing. 

The powerpoint presentation that I made which was very simple and mostly comprised of pictures and info-graphics helped me organize my thoughts and guided me throughout the speech. I felt that the actual speech could have gone better; being the last person to present definitely put more pressure on me and it was difficult to focus on my classmates' speeches because I was worried about mine. The nervousness was increasing as time went by but once I started the speech, I felt much better. 

Something I need to work on is allowing myself to be less nervous in the beginning just like how towards the end of the speech I tend to relax a lot more.