TEN STEPS TO REDUCE SPEECH ANXIETY

1.    KNOW THE ROOM.

                                                                                                                                 2. KNOW THE AUDIENCE.

3. KNOW YOUR MATERIAL.

4. LEARN TO RELAX.

5. VISUALISE YOURSELF SPEAKING.

6. REALISE PEOPLE WANT YOU TO SUCEED.

7. DON’T APLOGISE FOR BEING NERVOUS.

8. CONCENTRATE ON YOUR MESSAGE.

9. TURN NERVOUSNESS INTO POSITIVE ENERGY.

10. GAIN EXPERIENCE.

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Attributes of a Good Trainer

ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD TRAINER A person should possess following attributes to be called a good trainer:- 1. Ability to ‘read the room’ instantly, adjusting their content, presentation, dialect, tone, pace & language to suit each person they teach. 2. Ability to establish rapport instantly. 3. Ability to see the point of view through which their students see without judgement. 4. They do not need notes or props. 5. They don’t use jargon. 6. They don’t play games for the sake of games. 7. They have countless ways of explaining the same thing & continually look for more. 8. They have no need for nor do they seek the audiences approval or insist on laughing when they are not funny. 9. They know that making an event exciting or entertaining is not an end in itself but a byproduct of truly valuable interaction and learning. 10. They leave an event physically and emotionally drained and energized all at the same time. 11. They live their life off stage by a set of morals & ethics; than their own internal rules. 12. They create an environment for the student to ask the most uncomfortable questions. 13. They would leave the students impressed with themselves rather than the trainer. 14. They are more interested in results than in their reviews. 15. They respect skeptics & cynics and turn them into their best students. 16. They sell without ever selling and never resort to cheap tricks on “today only specials”. 17. If they had a bumper sticker on their car, it would read “I’d rather be teaching”.

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MUST SEE MOVIES FOR B-SCHOOL STUDENTS

Watching movies are a wonderful way of developing Leadership, ethics and skills required to exercise power. We give you here a list of silver screen  "must-see" movies , essential for every B-school aspirant.

GUNG HO (1986)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt
Brief: The movie was made when Japan was showing the world how to make better products.The movie is about the clash and eventual reconcilation of cultures. Both the cultures are overdrawn a bit , but the movie is thoughtful.

NORMA RAE (1979)
Starring: Sally Field, Beau Bridges
Brief: Leadership does'nt come from the top. Norman Rae is a single mother who -despite great personal risk - fights to unionise her textile mill  to improve terrible working conditions.

PATTON (1970)
Starring: George C Scott, karl Maiden, Stephen Young
Brief: A profile of the most aggressive American General of  WW-II. This movie prompts deep reflections on the emotional intelligence that must underpin true leaders.

THE UNTOUCHABLES
Starring: Kevin Kotner, Sean Connery, Robert de Niro
Brief: Its about the Power of Character. A terrifically entertaining and exciting movie. the story is almost totally fictionalised.The script may not be true to history, but it's true to human emotion and very  moving, personalising the battle between the good and evil by concentrating on  the impact that violence and corruption has on families.

NARROW MARGIN
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, JT Walsh
Brief: Its how at the end  the Truth Prevails.The movie delivers solid entertainment with an old fashioned feel for cliff-hanging adventure. Hackman stars as Los Angeles Deputy DA Robert Caulfield, who would like nothing more than to put white-collared gangster Leo Watts away for a long long time.

THE MATRIX
Also, The Matrix Reloaded & Matrix Revolutions
Starring:  Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Brief: The Year is 2199 and the world is being run by an Artificial Intelligence.Provides plenty of food for future thought with some great visual effects and new benchmarks for fun and excitement.u


Other Recommended Flicks:

The Shawshank Redemption: The power of Hope
2001- A Space Odyssey.-An epic drama of adventure and exploration thatSpeculates the origin of man.
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
The Departed.
Braveheart
Titanic
Schindler's List
Life Is Beautiful
Scent of a Woman
The Pianist
Erin Brockovich
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dumb and Dumber
The Silence of the Lambs
E.T.
No Country for Old Men

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Adding New Words to your Vocabulary

Every year a number of words get added to the English Language and find their way to the Oxford Dictionary. Rapid development of technology has created multiple new products, services,and functionalities, which all need new terms to describe them. Social media has added to the fast circulation of a new vovabulary as well. Last year, we saw 'Vuvuzela", the irritating horn used at the Football World cup making it, besides words like Slumdog. This year the English language finds an increasing influence of the Worldwide Web,and has included words such as:

Scareware-     malicious computer programmes
Trackpad-      touchpad
Buttload -       a large amount
Bloggable-      a suitable topic for blogging
Onliner-          an internet user
Cyberbullying- bullying via the net
Cybersecurity-Protective measures adopted to safe guard against hacking & malicious spyware.
Clickjacking-   manipulating a user's activity by concealing hyperlinks

Mobile phone texting has also added some new words and phrases to the Oxford dictionary.A few of them are:

Sexting          - sending explicit images or messages
tbh                - to be honest
feature phone-a mobile phone with extra features
fnarr fnarr     - sniggering

Other new words this year which find a place are:

Tanorexia      -an obsessive desire to get a tan
Jazzhands      -a gesture with hands waved to express excitement
Trolleyed       -extremely drunk
gastricband     -device for the surgical treatment of obesity
rumourmill       -the process by which rumours are originated
light-bulb moment-a moment of sudden realisation

Did I not say- Building your Vocab is a life long process!! Happy Vocab!

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Developing Skills

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