Things to be remembered in Public Speaking & Presentation: A modern approach
Farhad Uddin Ahmed Bhuiyan
From the very outset of the civilization, there had been a great essence to utter some word to make lead any group and/or community; having a particular trend in that connection. Whatever the situation and whenever you place your delivering before a mass gathering, you will, certainly require to adapt and maintain some key features of that presentation at all. To make attentive the listener and audience is in fact a tough and artful job. There is no denying fact that with the rapid expansion of information technology, we are, gradually, being instrumental in context of speech delivering. One most important point we need to stockpile in our brain is that when going to be a speaker; we had better get our disappointment and nervousness in zero degree. Having a lack of confidence can never be the role model for those who hope for being world class speaker in any formal and/or informal situation.
Actually, the bad habit with what we all the time stick to gun is that the shameful and shyly mode in different variable situation that should, obviously, be buried in no time. By the way, this increasing trend does not arise in ultimate way causing and indicating a disease related to human psychology.
Another point will get preference in presentation smoothly and spontaneously likewise get up and out looking of the speaker or presenter we know very well that in this age all want to look at well fitted and well-dressed people. So, the necessity of keeping one-the presenter up to date in clothing has been more popular to avail the best speaker’s award and declaration. Knowledge having on any issue in depth is also a driving force to help make any one the world class. Before standing in front of public gathering or something like that well preparation on the tentative discussing topic is a must. In most cases, we are used to speaking out irrelevantly that makes bore to the audience. Particularly, the sky rocketing demand of public speaking and presentation in this word has made us covetous to speak anything without having a bit sense of perfuming the ongoing code of conduct in this regard. Even we prefer to get involved in criticism in diversified way, hooch poach style, which may be the root cause of dusting us from our own spirit and thoughts in almost way. It’s relevant to point out that we don’t know how to arrange a speech for delivering and when to stop it.
Generally, what we experience from different public speaking venue is stuff and nonsense and nothing special be found to follow.
For being some one’s respected and desired speaker and orator, the tool we badly need is to grasp and avail in priority basis which is rarely found in our country’s politicians’ delivering also. My deep concern in connection with making out a group of people will emphasis on the artful, thought-full and constructive way and approach of speaking and presenting any function having at best standard.
To be a widely embraced fellow, some qualities like presentation skills, depth of knowledge, analytical and argumentative skills have to have by any means.
For giving a life to a function, our presentation must have like that flavor by which all present participants can be able to happy enough. In general what we are used to looking at is guided per-planned and memorized speech are to deliver in different occasion.
For being a good and presentable person, we will have to acquire knowledge on this prospect. But without having any specialized training and know how. trying and initiating to dream leads to become extra-ordinary speaker is almost absurd. For everything, methodical drill and culture is the first and fore most issue. My thinking and approaching is that don’t insist someone to have training on the talked issue but what I want and will say is that any professional formal and/or informal workshop can give an exact shape to human being; making it sure to the best powered and escalating forces. Critiques will start criticizing with irritable sound.
From the prominent and celebrity, we need to earn the qualities best suit to be an excellent presenter Many of us think it as a God gifted matter. Reality goes and keeps its pace with only the reality .One thing should also be remembered once again that prediction & experience both are unparalleled. On knowing any issue there may have no magical approach to do well in any function. To know the best and to be the outstanding in most cases willingness the rare components & the key magic factor.
Though presentation style varies on person to person and territory of any function it can be made favor and manageable to anybody with spontaneous trying and efforts. Our society and its surroundings are full of ignorance that supposes us to get retreated from the challenging but rosy platforms. In fact, presentation is an art and it can be termed as of one’s achieved valued and variable skills. In presentation & public speaking, instant imagination knowledge is more or less needed. Besides, pronunciation on English can influence the participants with a greater degree. Long-term practice and world class guideline are also the prime feature of being a very good present. A confident speaker is, certainly, an entertainment issue for the audience in maximum experimented cases.
Polite approach, salutation, standard language terminologies usages can bring to light anybody else in the line of very good speaker. The easiest and audible words are fond of participants. To make any presentation fruitful and exciting, some well-defined ornamental organ movement is required. After an up-to- date review of all achieved knowledge and efforts, we are mostly destined to have a pleasant event and satisfaction of our works.
Progressive idea and well-shaped approach will, in general, get wind us, making all the things happened. On a great deal of diversified efforts and spontaneous valued trying, the dedicated passion, can best suit us to our opted mission, having its utmost satisfaction soon. In this advantageous era, we all the time are in quest of availing some scholastic records but don’t remain us busy with its required efforts that have to pay in a particular way. Determined and obstinate fellow will have more access in the knowledge horizon. If cared and trained up our human resources with utmost sincerity and standard, the winning crown will have no way to flee away from our grip.
Bookish knowledge is not a good friend of anybody when needed some extraordinary flavor of Knowing. Mock Presentation and public trial or public speaking can play a vital role to be our desired one. We should believe in good practice to excel us in a definite passage. We almost think experience can help earning often a certain period. It is also a matter of being relied on experience gathering necessities, after the cordial drilling of any job, success will be supposed to come. But from different case studies of the past presentation, we have progressed outside with this knowledge that presenter is a performer of a movie or drama who has to play and change his role in a directive way.
Though the matter is obvious to us same as broad day light that in Bangladesh no institution is available to train human resources in this field. Some of back dated resource persons are, now a days, busy enough to conduct different courses on presentation or something like that which has no recognition at all in international arena. As something is not the bad in absence of good. Our country’s a whole lot of ambitious are being the victim of those so called resource persons. Actually, when a country is in a marginal economic condition, its perhaps, an ambitious job to institute anything like the foreigners.
With the time, we are keeping pace. Doing all these we kept for getting our view and vision. Of course, getting a new version, all the time, can’t present any nation something luminous and special. We have freedom to dream but it should not be given a more ply. Well thought decision may be able to ascertain some one’s opted point. Our concerned bureaucrats should, can and need come to look forward the nation with some specific target. Looking at our neighboring country, it’s possible for anybody to have the exact difference in between Bangladesh and India.
Obviously, the reason behind this may be the financial draw back and lack of creative thinking. One important question may have in every mind that how to manage all the modern equipment needed for instituting an academic court for the presenters in our country. But untoward situation & want will never be disappeared from any corner of Bangladesh. With these, we should step in some generous and timely issues. From the new developed counties, we may perceive and make out the very best way of getting adjusted having drawbacks and untoward situation. In some case studies and observations we saw some people’s untiring journey, success stories that were under critical & ill fate situation.
Above all, the way we want to get changed should be modified without any delay. Having post-graduation & more than this a good number of students of Bangladesh can’t place them in their opted position causing the deficiency in presentation, communication & Public speaking skills. In fact, students are not, solely responsible for that as the introduced curriculum of this state does not bear and include any of creative and extra ordinary quality acquiring style and/or system. Hence, we do hope for being same as the world leader except all these.
Generally, critiques from different partisan of this escalating world are, in fact, in their matured position to tweak the potentiality of someone regarding world class presentation, a good number of workshops and seminars should have to be conducted in our country. Except this our ambitious off spring will not be able to place them in the Global stage as a Bangladeshi representative. From being well-trained, an up-to-date team can be brought to light to glitter our events having international and artful way of presentation. As availability of renowned persons is the marked question to us for not being able to forward our wheel. During initiating any workshop and seminar on presentation skills building, organizers, in maximum cases feel risky at enrolling many and/or required Participants only because the scarcity of qualified professional Resource Persons in its kind in our country.
With this true and bitter draw back, very recently we are seeing that somebody have forwarded in this way. They advertised on different dailies in that connection. From it, this is also being assumed that willingness is a principal part of executing and carrying anything out. There should have no hard and fast rule of this age, youngsters are keenly addicted to mass media related different sorts of cultural programmers like presentation, performing Arts and program production. Virtually they want to swim and take bath in the tide of satellite culture even ignoring their first job knowledge acquiring in deed, for a few youngster who occupy the needed quality to avail that opportunity will get place. On the other hand, a giant proportion of emotional will have go to back to their pavilion of dissatisfaction.
The fact of this is not beyond our touch we feel, we even realize but have a lot of limitations to place all ambitious & expectants as we all are, in fact, more or less learned about the entry requirement and extra qualification needed to get place in showbiz and/or cultural platform by which some one having his/her unique merit and performance, can have opportunity to win the millions of people’s mind. Whatever we talk about does not limit the importance of proper and professional training on presentation styles and media related artful way of exposure on which and from which crawling inhabitants who aspire to color them with the flash of Ultramodern cultural practice will be beneficiary in the long run. Though presentation is an art comprising of a great deal of tactics and approach to be classic in its kind having international standard, it has to be well-practiced through a systematic training. Training supposes anybody to change.
The shape of ignorance and it also welcomes to lay the foundation stone of diversified know how on any specific topic or issue. Usually, we take part in training program for job related mandatory skills only. But in real sense, for being a machined, well timed and square human being, the trend to participate in various training campaign must be fastened from the inception of A B C knowledge acquiring to the last breath taking in our life. In epilogue, this can be affirmed and uttered with one voice that we the placement seekers in Media and Communication, are not solely responsible for not being able to suit us in the respective field. Our country has no extended efforts to set up any well reputed training institute so far we have realized. Hence, my earnest and strong appeal to all concerned is that the windows of exploring in the horizon of knowledge should certainly, be opened through setting up an autonomous or more institution in our country in no time.
(The writer is an advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh who can be reached at Supremecourtlawyer.bd.uk@gmail.com)