FBLA Reflection

It can be terrifying for some young adults to walk into a room full of grown adults specifically there to judge your presentation, performance, and hard work. I recently had an educational experience that would push me to the next level. I was tasked with presenting my electronic career portfolio to judges from across the state, through an FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) conference. That experience shaped me in a multitude of ways. I have competed in FBLA for the last couple of years. It has been an important education experience because it is designed to prepare you for the real world of business. It takes what you have learned in the classroom and gives you chance to apply it in a more realistic way. It has taught me a lot about myself and given me an opportunity to improve my character. For one, I had to learn the responsibility by getting my project put together in a timely manner with very specific deadlines. I couldn’t ask them to move the whole conference a couple days so that I could finish. This experience was about the hours of work put in prior to my presentation. It took the patience and perseverance and intensity to learn how to create a website and to make sure it represented my name the

During this experience, I realized that my hard work paid off. Even though I’d like to think my presentation was perfect, it wasn’t. I realized, while presenting, all the things I should have added to make my portfolio stand out. Exposing a weakness of mine, I need to be more detail oriented. It was honestly humbling, because I thought my confident communication skills and knowledge would be enough. I found it valuable to learn from what I did instead of being upset when someone offered me constructive feedback, again,I considered it a gift. I learned a lot during that