The Presentation 2021:
Where we mis-understood public speaking?
Do you feel bore, when anyone speaks around, be it on videos
or a person in front? How long would you love to listen to him/her? or would you
feel like leaving the hall/class within 5 second of a presentation, I am sure
you have had that experience at any given point in your academic and career
life.
With the likes of Robin Sharma, Deepak Malhotra and Mr.
Barack Obama, take the stage, expectation from the audience goes high. How
would one forget the great orator, Jr. Martin Luther king, or perhaps the 35th
American president JF Kennedy, I am certain there would be a “Pin drop silence”,
doesn’t matter if there were two or two billion people in front of them, once
they began their say.
Mr. Vedant, at 24, had a decent dexterity to communicate,
and present anything to the audience, at the very young age, he had numerous
accolades and award for his presentation admiration.
He even had co-founded a “The best speaker club” at his
university where he along with some of his friend train his juniors and few
seniors.
This is how you instill to present your ideas, the Co-Curricular
Director of the university for ‘Leadership Development Program’, Mr. Bikram, showing
his dissatisfaction at Vedant during the training process at the club.
Mr. Bikram had bagged 10 national best speaker award, international
speaker award. A keynote speaker for various imminent event and activities, he
runs three school and five different colleges, a big guy Mr. Bikram.
It is only Vedant who doesn’t like Mr. Bikram style of
training, and the mediocre parameter set to evaluate “Public Speaking”, there
were numerous incident where Vedant has left Bikram training session at the
middle of the classroom. For that Vedant was detained from the university and
many action was taken against him.
The club had a mission to spawn 50 solid speakers to compete
with other schools presentator at the ‘best speaker award’ which is going to
happen after 2 months. And Vedant was preparing 50 solid speakers for the
competition.
We have an inter school best speaker award is going to be
held after four days of time, Mr. Bikram announced the information to all the
students of the school. He then particular asked to Vedant to report him as to
how many speakers have been developed so far at what extent.
After the classes gets over, Vedant along with his few
friends checked inside the Director room, Mr. Bikram made them sit.
As You all know that only four days left for the
competition, and I need one good candidate from the whole school, and Vedant it
is your responsibility to selected the one. Let me now who will be the one. Mr.
Bikram wanted an urgent reply from Vedant.
Sir, I have just started my club, and I have given them a
training schedule today, from tomorrow my training session are going to be
commenced. I am not in a position to help you find the right one this point.
But if you give me a permission, I can take this as a challenge.
For that you also need some additional training, and we have
only four days left, said Mr. Bikram, Vedant in reply, sir I can knob without
any training, making presentation sometime goes beyond training.
I am sorry, Vedant, I don’t want to take menace by sending
you untrained. Said Bikram.
All I wanted is a trust from your end, sir, Vedant with a soft voice
trying to plead his Director.
I will ask you one question, if you could satisfy me, I will
be happy to send you, if not- then, I am going to train someone else.
The director posed an intimidating question in front of Vedant.
Vedant was not petrified to take any experiments that his
Director going to throw at him. he said he was ok with whatever Bikram had to
say.
What’s your philosophy behind the presentation? Bikram
asked, he was surefire that, this must be out of the box question to Vedant,
but in return. Vedant asks a simple question to Bikram that made him go Pindrop
silence for a moment.
Vedant then replied, “A Pin drop Silence” is what a great
speaker must aspire for, what mediocre speaker does is they just try to show
their reward and accolades, great speakers aspire only for “Pindrop silence”
doesn’t matter if there are 2 or 2 billion people snooping to them.
And I believe in “chasing Pindrop silence” than anything
else. One day, I dream, when I speak, there would be a ‘Pin drop Silence’.
Vedant replied.
His philosophy behind the presentation was greatly criticized
by Mr. Bikram
A millennial like Vedant, teaching someone already a star,
Mr. Bikram, a well-known presentator since decades, Bikram did not accept the
fact that just grown up, tried to show up in front of him.
Mr. Bikram did not select Vedant for the competition, he perhaps
doesn’t understand the Vedant philosophy behind the presentation.
A Pindrop silence was a real challenge for Mr. Vedant.
Mr. Bikram prepared someone he knew whom he thought had
great presentation skills. But in fact the presentator was failed to make it.
He was out from the first audition round. Mr. Bikram never made sound for any
sort of presentation since then.
Mr. Vedant really worked hard for his team members at the
club to develop the great speakers. But really never had that chance to
demonstrate, Mr. Bikram on the other hand never appreciate to proffer a
platform for Vedant.
25th anniversary of school, Mr. Bikram at the
stage – this was the worst speech ever by the president.
The next day, Vedant wanted to speak with Mr. Bikram.
I am sure you did not like the way you speak, did you? Vedant said to Mr. Bikram, at the office
after the class the next day. The ego can be felt all across the room from Mr.
Bikram.
You know sir, speaker needs to see how much the crowd is
listening to them with a great interest, if anyone doesn’t like the way one
speak, they won’t listen, they would rather chat with the one side by them and
that creates a noise, which is not a quality of a speaker.
How much you know about speaking? Mr. Bikram showed his annoyance
to Vedant.
The don’t care how one speak, but I will always value
speaker when they have something more than the speech.
It is when the crowd expect something great to listen from
the speaker, then speaker achieve a ‘Pindrop silence’. May be you know better than
I do. Vedant ended.
Mr. Bikram, is not going to value what anyone has to say
about his weakness.
Mr. Vedant keep himself busy until something came up as a
big event. Time to prove.
The scheduled inter-university ‘Best Speaker Award’ is round
the corner, almost 50 affiliated colleges are going to participate, it is imperative
that we need a magnificent team of presentator to fight the competition.
I am supposed to lead the team and participate as well. Said
Vedant to his self-centered director.
The Director, in return decline Vedant interest to participate,
Mr. Bikram had someone in his mind to get prepared for the leading competition
ever.
After a long verbal combat with his Director, Vedant finally
lost the hope for his participation at the upcoming event.
For two months, Mr. Bikram trained one of his student, which
he sensed can do a prodigious job and perhaps bag the title for the university.
It was more like a competition against Vedant than with any
other participants at the event.
50 different colleges, 50 selected participants from each college,
out of which Mr. Bikram selected student’s weigh better, because Bikram training
has never gone into vain so far.
Each college has put extra determination to outperform the Bikram
student.
More than 1200 audience, guests, chief guest, participants,
dignitaries from all walks of life and gamut were presented at the event.
Elegant host begins the session; participants were made
seated at the waiting hall.
After the formal session ends, host announced the technical session.
Out of 50 different vibrant participants representing their
respective college and institutions, Bikram college got 23rd turn to
present on their topic.
Audience vote and judges scoring was taken as an evaluation.
The first five presentators performance was found to be an excellent
one, and a huge applause from the audience as well.
20 presentations gone by, Bikram heart beat was pounding
every second since then. Finally, the turn was for a much awaited host college participant,
Mr. Bikram 25 years of recognition in the field of public speaking and his
student now going to take the stage.
Each audience with the excitement.
It was Mr. Vedant on the stage finally, everyone from the
host was quite surprised to see him.
Mr. Bikram could not believe his eyes.
A twelve minutes long, a thought-provoking speech delivered.
It was more than just a speech. Mr. Vedant at the stage. “A Pin drop Silence” even
after Vedant finish his presentation.
The newspaper reporter tracked down Mr. Bikram, after the end
of the event.
Vedant was your student, he indeed did an inordinate job,
outperformed 50 other great speakers across prestigious universities. You must
have trained him, what is your take on this? The reporter asked to Mr. Bikram.
Nobody could have judged his speech, ‘A Pindrop Silence’
from the crowd testified his knack to give novel profile and extent as to how
we have misunderstood the “Public Speaking” so far at large. Bikram responded.
2 comments:
A pin drop silence is what every speaker loves , great one sir ☺️
Great work sir❤loved this piece of writing❤
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