CREAM Strategy: Developing Presentation Skills for University Students

This presentation outlines the CREAM strategy, which focuses on enhancing presentation skills through creativity, reflection, effectiveness, activity, and motivation. It emphasizes the importance of presentation skills in management and how these skills can be developed through experience and learning. The CREAM strategy assists individuals in identifying and utilizing different attributes to improve their studies at the university level, leading to personal and professional development. By understanding and implementing the principles of the CREAM strategy, students can identify skill gaps, build on existing skills, and achieve higher standards of proficiency in their academic and professional lives. The presentation highlights the need for learners to be creative in expressing their viewpoints, reflective in evaluating their performance, effective in understanding learning requirements, active in their learning practices, and motivated to gain knowledge. Ultimately, the CREAM strategy serves as a comprehensive guide for students to develop essential skills for success.

CREAM Strategy

Table of contents
• Introduction
• CREAM strategy
• Use of CREAM Strategy
• Creative
• Reflective
• Effective
• Active
• Motivated
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Presentation skills may be referred to as the
ability which enables the person to transmit its
message with clarity as well as interact with
audience. It also involves engaging an
audience within the presentation and then
understanding and interpreting the mindset of
all the listeners so that the message can be
conveyed easily to the listeners.

CREAM Strategy
In order to establish a prospective and long
term career, individuals needs to constantly
strive towards utilising prominent strategies
that could elevate their level of expertise in the
long run . Cream strategy can be characterised
as a potential strategy that assists the individuals
to build their existing skills and attain high
standard of proficiency through the same in
their academic areas.

Use of CREAM Strategy
The make motive to make use of this strategy is to enhance the ability of using
the skills and build the existing and future skill sets. By making use of this, the
individuals can get to know their skill gaps so that it can be filled to enhance
the personal and professional development. The aspects of this CREAM
Strategy will help a student to identify its strength and weakness so that it can
grow and develop effectively at personal as well as professional level.

Creative
In this element, learners must enhance their
confidence in order to express their viewpoints
more appropriately. In the given strategy the
learner must try to innovate something new.
Creativity allows an individual to expand their
vision and help the same to tap into new learning
dimensions which can be explored for further
personal as well as in professional improvement

Reflective
These are used interchangeably often and
technically, duties are mainly the tasks which
are to be performed as the part of the job role
while responsibilities are the obligation which
are to be carried out in a specIt is a practice
wherein a learner is required to assess and
evaluate their own performance in a righteous
and honest manner so as to identify their
strengths and weaknesses and further work
upon the same in an effective mannerism.

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An individual can become reflective when it gets the ability to make evaluation of
its own performance by analysing the loopholes as well as the good things
happened. Identifying the strength and weaknesses by way of evaluation can also
help him being reflective as a student learns from its past experience and make the
utilization of its studies in an effective manner.

Effective
It is highly necessary and significant for
the tutors to be more effective while
understanding the learning requirements
of the learners. It is important for them to
be more careful with the planning,
organising as well as resourcing stage of
scenic practice so as to ensure that the
learning is maximised and the learning
outcomes are elevated to the maximum.

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The other attribute is to organise as well
as manage the time in a proper manner by
creating the environment of study and
putting an individual into the mood of
study. It is well said that when an
individual is productive enough, it is due
to its time management ability as the
studies are arranged in a timely manner.

Active
In order to execute effective learning
practices, it is also very necessary for the
tutors to ensure that they are highly
proactive with their learning practices. This
means that the individual responsible for
executing the training or learning practices
must be very assertive with their approach
towards the students.

Motivated
Motivation can be characterised as a key
driver which plays a significant role when
it comes to the facilitation of learning
among the students. It is necessary for the
students to have interest and willingness to
learn the concept being taught by the tutor
so as to gain maximum knowledge and
understanding of the topic being taught in
the class.