Monday, October 8, 2012

An impromptu session


Hi everyone!
 
This would be my third post, and I will be touching on an interesting training that my company had.
 
After our work-in-progress (WIP) meeting, my supervisor had an impromptu Question and Answer (Q&A) session for everyone. Each of us would be asked a different topic that appears to be the news that most people are interested for that particular day, and we are supposed to express our view points to which we agree or not.
 
My topic was about the education in Singapore on the change of the English syllabus for primary schools. Other topics that my colleagues were asked on are politics, entertainment and social. After each of us presented our view points, other colleagues were encouraged to ask any further questions they might have with regards to the topic or to the answer that a particular person had commented.
 
After this Q&A session, my supervisor stated his reasons in holding this session. The reasons are:
-          To build up our presentation skills and confidence level
-          Not to think about anything and just present our true views to the topics
-          Not speaking/expressing views by memorising it off from our notes
 
I felt that the session is a unique way of training to improve our skills. In the PR industry, it is important for us to have good presentation skills and confidence to present the agency’s ideas well to the client. This little training also allows us to understand more about things that are happening in the society, the opinions of others, as well as a small gossip session for all of us to bond.
 

Cheers,
Delvina Chiang
15006527
Curtin Singapore

1 comment:

Unknown said...

As pr professional we will always have to do presentation.
And yes, presenting with conviction rather than reading on paper , is a skill.
Sometimes, we do think it is impossible but when we prepare with conviction what we are going to say.
It will automatically convince our audience.

cheers
cecilia. Charles Telfair Institute