Public Speech

After going for a public speaking course at GiG Centre, I now realize how important (and what a good idea it was to take that course) it is to know how to speak in front of a public.

Since this course I have attended a few seminars or just events where someone would make a speech. Seeing their quality of speeches I find that a lot of these public speakers don't know how to present or talk in public.
I am not saying that they are bad. I am just saying that it is important to know the basics of it. It allows you to control your crowd, to prepare yourself and forces you to check your equipments before hand. It essentially asks you to prepare for the worst case senario.

I am currently attending a seminar and the presentation screwed up the presenter. We are waiting now for the presentation to restart, which doesn't seem to do so. No audio is coming out, which is necessary for the presentation.
This allows for the attendees to chat, be inpatient, maybe thinking negatively about this presentation and the company and possibly "laugh" at them for this unfortunate happening.

So, for my dear students out there who happened to bump onto this blog:

- I am still waiting for the presentation to continue.
- if you were here, you would probably understand why I emphasizes in putting you through presentations in front of the class and why you need to have a backup plan, in case something like that example mentioned above happens.
- be prepared for the worst

Well, the presentation started now... On a different computer without the prepared session files... (remeber to have a duplicate of your presentation on the backup computer too...!)

Have a good weekend!