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Final Presentation
Toyota Motor Corporation Report
By Aaresh Bogati
UCLA Extension Tokyo Center
Business English Communication Program
Essentials
UCLA Extension Tokyo Center
Business English Communication Program
Essentials
Presentation Introduction
Good afternoon everyone. Today I would like to talk about Toyota Motor Corporation and the Japanese Automobile Industry.
First, let me ask you a question. What’s your favorite Car?
The purpose of this presentation is to persuade you that Toyota Motor Corporation can be more successful in the future, even though it is facing a great problem in its production at present.
First, I’ll tell you about the Japanese Automobile industry. Then, I’ll tell you about Toyota's business and its financial results. Finally, I’ll predict the future of Toyota’s business. We will have a Q&A time at the end, so please hold your questions until then.
Industry Overview
First, let me tell you about the Automotive Industry and Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan.
According to Wikipedia of Automotive industry in Japan,
Hatsudoki Seizo Co., Ltd. was established in 1907 in Japan.
Japanese automakers launched a bevy of new cars in 1960s in Japan.
Toyota Motor Corporation, which is simply known as Toyota is the world's largest automaker.
This is a multinational corporation. Its headquarters are in Japan.
Toyota has 320,000 employees worldwide.
Next, here are some recent facts.
According to JAMA (Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc.) nearly 8% of Japan's working population is involved in auto industry related work.
Auto production account for 17% of the total value of Japan's manufacturing shipments.
We know that Japan was the world's largest vehicle manufacturer in 2008 but it has ceded this position to China in 2009.
Japanese manufacturers produced very affordable, reliable, and popular cars throughout the 1990s, and as a result, Japan became the largest car producing nation in the world in 2000. However, its market share has decreased slightly in recent years, particularly due to old and new competition from South Korea, China and India. Nevertheless, Japan's car industry continues to flourish, its market share has risen again, and in the first quarter of 2008 Toyota surpassed General Motors to become the world's largest car manufacturer.
Many Americans are employed by Japanese automakers and dealers in the US and the total number of employees were 392,635 in 2008.
In 1986, JAMA members exported about 3.4 million vehicles from Japan to the U.S.
In 2008, they exported about 2 million vehicles here, a reduction of about 1.4 million vehicles.
In 1986, JAMA members produced 617,000 vehicles in the U.S. In 2008, they produced nearly
3 million vehicles there an increase of nearly 2.4 million vehicles.
Japanese automakers now supply 62% of their total U.S. sales from their North American plants, compared with less than 12% in 1986.
Next, I’d like to tell you about Toyota Corporation in more details.
Toyota Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. was established in November 1926 to manufacture and market automatic looms invented by Sakichi Toyoda. The company name was changed to Toyota Industries Corporation in August 2001.
Toyota Corporation manufactures and sells textile machinery, automobiles, and materials handling equipment. It also has a logistics business.
Toyota sales were as follows in FY 2009.
Textile machinery was 1.9%, Logistics 7.2%, Materials Handling Equipment 40.4%, Automobile 47.7% and others 2.8%.
Financial Highlights
Toyota Motor Corporation FY ending March 31 (millions of yen)
Toyota Motor Corporation FY ending March 31 (millions of yen)
| Year | 2008 | 2009 | %change 2009 vs. 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net sales | 2,000,536 | 1,584,252 | (20.8) % |
| Operating income (loss) | 96,853 | (6,621) | - |
| Ordinary income | 126,488 | 14,343 | (88.7) |
| Net income (loss) | 80,460 | (32,767) | - |
| Research and development expenses | 36,750 | 33,646 | (8.4) |
| Cash dividends per share (yen) | 60.00 | 40.00 | (33.3) |
| At Year-End | |||
| Total assets | 2,965,585 | 2,327,432 | (21.5) % |
| Total net assets | 1,453,996 | 977,670 | (32.8) |
| Number of employees | 39,528 | 39,916 | 1.0 |
Toyota’s Net sales were 2 trillion yen in 2008 and 1.5 trillion yen in 2009 which was 20.8% less than 2008.
Operating income was -6.6 billion yen, Net income was -32.8 billion yen and ordinary income was 14.3 billion yen, but employees increased in 2009 to 31,916 in Japan, as of March 31, 2009.
Summary: OK, so, I hope that helps you understand Toyota’ history and main manufacturing products.
Now, let me finish by predicting the future of Toyota Motor Corporation.
As you can see here, Toyota’s stock price has been rising recently. However, its stock price has fallen in 2009 because of the economic recession.
I researched and compared its stock price to its competitors and I can say that Toyota’s stock price is starting to rise again. So I believe Toyota’s business can be successful in the future.
I have two reasons for this view.
First of all, Toyota can be successful because it has many excellent products that are able to support its business. In my opinion, Toyota’s products are very affordable, reliable, and popular. We know that Corolla, Prius, Camry, and Yaris were top ten products in 2009.
People are buying the products of Toyota from all around the world. Its products are in high demand in America, Europe and the rest of the world.
Secondly, Toyota can be successful because it is going to create new models cars every year. Toyota knows the demand of the consumer very well.
Toyota is going to launch new models cars in 2011 which are the Toyota Camry, the Toyota Camry Hybrid, and the Toyota Sienna. Based on my research they all are affordable and excellent products.
OK, in conclusion, I hope I have persuaded you that Toyota has very popular products and can be successful in the future because it is improving its marketing.
Thank You.
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Final Session
That was our final session of the Business English Essentials. The topic was about negotiation skill, which is not new to anyone. Negotiation skills are necessary things for businessperson especially for trading companies.
Our first agenda was about a dialogue practice of negotiating sales contract. We were three groups in our final session. So we practiced, dialogue in our groups and learned some target phrases about the negotiation. Negotiating a contract is very difficult task itself. We must know how to get success when negotiating a contract with clients. The main aim of this class is to get knowledge of the negotiation. There are five stages in negotiation.
1. Starting a negotiation
2. Exchanging offers and counteroffers
3. Persuading the other side
4. Compromising and confirming
5. Reaching a deal
We learned all five stages in brief and used them with classmates.
The agenda was about the role play in the negotiation. We did role play of seller and buyer and used target phrases. In this session seller starts the negotiation of the price and buyer react the price high or low. So in this way they continue their negotiation following the above stages and end the negotiation. Seller tries to sell something in high price, but the buyer wants to reduce the price of the product. They try to do win-win compromise.
After the negotiation of price we had the simulation of negotiations. I choose the buyer position that was working for Starbucks Coffee. I had to buy 5000 to 10,000 kg of Premium Coffee in the wholesale rate and I had to negotiate the deal with seller. I tried my best to reduce the price of a kg of Premium Coffee. All our classmates did the same role play in that session with a partner. And at last we gave the result to the teacher. I got to know that I was not so successful in win-win negotiation. So the session was such a good lesson for me. I learned how to negotiate with clients when dealing a contract. I hope that I will not do the same mistake when negotiation in my real business.
After the simulation of the negotiation, we applied the negotiation rules in Hall's cultural concepts. I have already written about the cultural concepts in my previous blogs.
I came to know that how cultures influence the business in a broad sense. So, before starting a business we have to learn the cultures of the world very well. After that we need the knowledge of business. So I request all the people who are reading this blog to study about the cultures and get knowledge of the business.
At last, I would like to thank Daijob.com and UCLA Extension Tokyo Center for providing me this opportunity to study Business English. And I would like to thank our dear teacher David Tedone who shared his great knowledge with us and my dear classmates who helped me to complete this course.
Thanks!
Our first agenda was about a dialogue practice of negotiating sales contract. We were three groups in our final session. So we practiced, dialogue in our groups and learned some target phrases about the negotiation. Negotiating a contract is very difficult task itself. We must know how to get success when negotiating a contract with clients. The main aim of this class is to get knowledge of the negotiation. There are five stages in negotiation.
1. Starting a negotiation
2. Exchanging offers and counteroffers
3. Persuading the other side
4. Compromising and confirming
5. Reaching a deal
We learned all five stages in brief and used them with classmates.
The agenda was about the role play in the negotiation. We did role play of seller and buyer and used target phrases. In this session seller starts the negotiation of the price and buyer react the price high or low. So in this way they continue their negotiation following the above stages and end the negotiation. Seller tries to sell something in high price, but the buyer wants to reduce the price of the product. They try to do win-win compromise.
After the negotiation of price we had the simulation of negotiations. I choose the buyer position that was working for Starbucks Coffee. I had to buy 5000 to 10,000 kg of Premium Coffee in the wholesale rate and I had to negotiate the deal with seller. I tried my best to reduce the price of a kg of Premium Coffee. All our classmates did the same role play in that session with a partner. And at last we gave the result to the teacher. I got to know that I was not so successful in win-win negotiation. So the session was such a good lesson for me. I learned how to negotiate with clients when dealing a contract. I hope that I will not do the same mistake when negotiation in my real business.
After the simulation of the negotiation, we applied the negotiation rules in Hall's cultural concepts. I have already written about the cultural concepts in my previous blogs.
I came to know that how cultures influence the business in a broad sense. So, before starting a business we have to learn the cultures of the world very well. After that we need the knowledge of business. So I request all the people who are reading this blog to study about the cultures and get knowledge of the business.
At last, I would like to thank Daijob.com and UCLA Extension Tokyo Center for providing me this opportunity to study Business English. And I would like to thank our dear teacher David Tedone who shared his great knowledge with us and my dear classmates who helped me to complete this course.
Thanks!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Presentation Time!
Our ninth session was about giving a presentation which we spent a long time preparing.
I was a little bit nervous before the presentation. It turned out I wasn't the only one who was nervous. All my friends said they were too before the presentation. In my case, I didn't feel confident because I was not fully prepared for it because I've been too busy with work these days. To my surprise, I did much better than I expected.
I gave a presentation about the Toyota Corporation and its future business. I had searched many websites including Toyota’s to try make my presentation good. I collected a lot of useful information about Toyota but my weak point was I did not make power point presentation well. Before the presentation, I read through the key points to follow to make use of them during my session.
After the presentation, we each looked back to how we did and self-assessed the good points and improvements that we needed to make. The good points with me were eye contacts, rhythm and smile. My weaknesses were I acted rather uneasy and the Power Point slides were short. My afterthought is I could have overcome those weaknesses had I prepared for it more thoroughly. I always feel that I really need more practice in presentation, which itself is a lesson to learn.
After the self-assessment, we had other two agendas for the day: UCLA Extension Course evaluation and our future goals. My thoughts are that learning about business English communication helped me a lot with improving my business English. I got a chance to study English as well as reviewing many things like financial information. Furthermore, I would like to work on my English so that I can enjoy my stay more when I visit an English speaking country in the future. I've promised myself I would study a lot harder in my spare time.
Regarding future goals, we asked each other questions and talked about our career goals and about the skills we need to make our dreams come true.
Thanks!
I was a little bit nervous before the presentation. It turned out I wasn't the only one who was nervous. All my friends said they were too before the presentation. In my case, I didn't feel confident because I was not fully prepared for it because I've been too busy with work these days. To my surprise, I did much better than I expected.
I gave a presentation about the Toyota Corporation and its future business. I had searched many websites including Toyota’s to try make my presentation good. I collected a lot of useful information about Toyota but my weak point was I did not make power point presentation well. Before the presentation, I read through the key points to follow to make use of them during my session.
After the presentation, we each looked back to how we did and self-assessed the good points and improvements that we needed to make. The good points with me were eye contacts, rhythm and smile. My weaknesses were I acted rather uneasy and the Power Point slides were short. My afterthought is I could have overcome those weaknesses had I prepared for it more thoroughly. I always feel that I really need more practice in presentation, which itself is a lesson to learn.
After the self-assessment, we had other two agendas for the day: UCLA Extension Course evaluation and our future goals. My thoughts are that learning about business English communication helped me a lot with improving my business English. I got a chance to study English as well as reviewing many things like financial information. Furthermore, I would like to work on my English so that I can enjoy my stay more when I visit an English speaking country in the future. I've promised myself I would study a lot harder in my spare time.
Regarding future goals, we asked each other questions and talked about our career goals and about the skills we need to make our dreams come true.
Thanks!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Preparation for Presentation and Communication
Our agendas for our eighth class were presentation skills, presentation practices, essential skills and communication styles.
First we reviewed our previous class which was about making rules for a meeting.
I already mentioned the set of rules to follow when having a meeting in my previous blog. Do you remember the important rules?
When we call a meeting first we have to have the purpose and the agenda of the meeting set. We need to establish who are the participants, timing, minute taker, chairperson in the meeting. After that we can have a meeting properly.
All these things are necessary to have a meeting. The most important thing for a project manager to do before the session begins is to provide the participants with information regarding the meeting.
After reviewing the rules we learned about presentation skills. We have to know the following key points to give a good presentation.
1. Consider the needs of audience
2. Organize the ideas logically
3. Use transitions
4. Smile
5. Eye contact
6. Speak with variation
7. Posture and gesture
If we do not know about these key points we cannot give a good presentation. If we cannot give a good presentation, we will not do well at meetings. So we learned these things briefly in our eighth session.
What is the difference between a good presentation and a bad presentation?
Giving a good presentation is not a simple task. We must be prepared physically and mentally before the presentation because we have to speak in front of people, usually in a foreign environment. We practiced giving presentations one by one and when we made any mistake, we received comments from our teacher.
In my case I never felt at ease standing in front of people and give a presentation. All in all, I think I did pretty well today because my classmates and my teacher were not new to me, but I still need more practice speaking in front of many people.
After practicing the presentation we learned communication styles.
It is not such a new topic but normally we do not really think about our communication styles. People communicate in different ways; systematic and organic, direct and diplomatic, formal and informal, inductive and deductive, head and heart, high context and low context, among colleagues and friends.
These communication styles are used in different kinds of presentation. Finding out about different styles of communication helps us to vary our ways in which give presentations to different kinds of people.
How would you describe your own communication style?
I think it depends on your nationality, culture and society you belong to.
Thanks!
First we reviewed our previous class which was about making rules for a meeting.
I already mentioned the set of rules to follow when having a meeting in my previous blog. Do you remember the important rules?
When we call a meeting first we have to have the purpose and the agenda of the meeting set. We need to establish who are the participants, timing, minute taker, chairperson in the meeting. After that we can have a meeting properly.
All these things are necessary to have a meeting. The most important thing for a project manager to do before the session begins is to provide the participants with information regarding the meeting.
After reviewing the rules we learned about presentation skills. We have to know the following key points to give a good presentation.
1. Consider the needs of audience
2. Organize the ideas logically
3. Use transitions
4. Smile
5. Eye contact
6. Speak with variation
7. Posture and gesture
If we do not know about these key points we cannot give a good presentation. If we cannot give a good presentation, we will not do well at meetings. So we learned these things briefly in our eighth session.
What is the difference between a good presentation and a bad presentation?
Giving a good presentation is not a simple task. We must be prepared physically and mentally before the presentation because we have to speak in front of people, usually in a foreign environment. We practiced giving presentations one by one and when we made any mistake, we received comments from our teacher.
In my case I never felt at ease standing in front of people and give a presentation. All in all, I think I did pretty well today because my classmates and my teacher were not new to me, but I still need more practice speaking in front of many people.
After practicing the presentation we learned communication styles.
It is not such a new topic but normally we do not really think about our communication styles. People communicate in different ways; systematic and organic, direct and diplomatic, formal and informal, inductive and deductive, head and heart, high context and low context, among colleagues and friends.
These communication styles are used in different kinds of presentation. Finding out about different styles of communication helps us to vary our ways in which give presentations to different kinds of people.
How would you describe your own communication style?
I think it depends on your nationality, culture and society you belong to.
Thanks!
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