SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

There is a common misconception that a business presentation must be crammed with information, serious and dry. It seems the higher you go in the corporate world; the more you are expected to “confuse to impress”. This results in presentations that are long, verbose, poorly structured and capable of inducing prolonged somnolence! I believe every presentation is a ‘sales pitch’ of some kind. You may not be selling a product or service, but you want to persuade your audience to take on board your message, take action or change their attitude/views/ minds on a subject. Because of this, every presentation is a balance between entertainment and information. Entertainment is simply the way you get your message across, information is the message itself. Too much information and you confuse your audience or worse still, they switch off. Too much entertainment without the information and your audience feels cheated that they have wasted their valuable time. Good speech structure helps...

*Who is poor ?* *A wealthy woman goes to a saree store and tells the boy at the counter* *Bhaiya, show some cheap sarees. It is my son's marriage and I have to give to my maid."* *After sometime, the maid comes to the saree shop and tells the boy at the counter* *Bhaiya, show some expensive sarees. I want to gift my Mistress on her son's marriage"* *Poverty is in the mind or in the purse?* *Who is rich ?* *Once, a lady with her family was staying in a 3-star hotel for a picnic.* *She was the mother of a 6 month old baby.* *"Can I get 1 cup of milk?" asked the lady to the 3-star hotel manager.* "•*"Yes madam", he replied, "But it will cost you money."* *"No problem", said the lady.* *While driving back from hotel, the child was hungry again.* *They stopped at a road side tea stall and took milk from the tea vendor.* *"How much?”* *she asked the tea vendor*. *"Madam, we don't charge money for kid's milk...