Hi everyone, with the recent blog posts I been choosing some of the important skills I think will be really useful in a business prospective, such as the meeting agenda.
As I said was very important for the company or organisation, because it guide the meeting process and point that need to be address during the meeting; therefore it's always a good thing to have the skill to know how the agenda can be layout.
I also mentioned the importance of communication, and out of everything, I personally think Communication is the most important thing for every individual.
However, to keep in mind that great confidence will affect how much individual is willing to speak. I also suggested a few ways to improve the speaking skill and being a motivate speaker by applying the rhetoric, the pause and hand movement.
I think the most interest and entertaining blog post so far are the two blog posts that discuss the different styles of dodgeball play out in different part of the world.
Not many people have travel to the Asia, and of course even thought people have travel to Asia, they probably go there for a purpose, such as vocation or visit, it will be very unlikely that the purpose is playing dodgeball.
Therefore I hope by making the comparison post on different styles of dodgeball can provide a fresh idea on the game to any of you that have not been touch on this subject before.
Here is my update on what I have done so far, and again, Stay tuned, there will be more post coming out.
Billy,
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Dodgeball in Asia
The country I come from also has the sport called "dodgeball". However, the game itself is complete different! And believe me, it's complete different and if you just step into the court and play Asia dodgeball , you will find it very difficult to adapt unless you play a game or two, orelse you will be very confuse!
First thing first, let's look at how the dodgeball court been structure in Taiwan (that's my country), shown below.
The major differences will be shown here, the red zone on each side of the court. This is the zone where player got hit and they will find their way heading there, but the thing is, people in the red zone are still in the game.
The red zones are structure this way, if team A is on the right hand side of the court on the picture, and one player got hit on team A, he will be heading to team B's red zone.
Player in the red zone can try to throw against the opponent whenever they have the ball, they can also pass the ball to their team mate and try to run a tactic, where ball pass around between red zone to its original court and once the opponent got confuse or got distract, they will be throw out easily.
Here is another major differences. One game will only have 1 ball, and game will starts on jump-ball where one player from each team comes to the circle in the middle for jump-ball, the same way as how basketball game starts.
Once the game starts, player will began to get opponent out and the team got wipe out first will be the loser. Some game allow player in the red zone to come back to the main court once they got an opponent out, however, it's all depend what rules they agree upon before the game.
The size of its main court is both 11m long and wide, and for the red zone is shown above.
It's vey entertain and fun to play under this lay-out. We used to have classes of 30 to 35 people and this is the sport that can bring everyone together as one, and show that we can do something as a team.
I hope this post would give you an ideal knowledge on how the dodgeball are play out in asia, and if you are interesting in this style, go and have a try!!
So let me tell you how different can a single sport play out in different area or countries.
First thing first, let's look at how the dodgeball court been structure in Taiwan (that's my country), shown below.
As you can see on the picture, the green zone in the middle is pretty similar to Western European style dodgeball court, which forms up with centre line and both end lines on the side. However, we don't have "dead-zone" around the centre line; therefore everywhere on the court can be attack.
Believe me, we used to have 30 people a side dodgeball game and it was problem-free.
The major differences will be shown here, the red zone on each side of the court. This is the zone where player got hit and they will find their way heading there, but the thing is, people in the red zone are still in the game.
The red zones are structure this way, if team A is on the right hand side of the court on the picture, and one player got hit on team A, he will be heading to team B's red zone. Player in the red zone can try to throw against the opponent whenever they have the ball, they can also pass the ball to their team mate and try to run a tactic, where ball pass around between red zone to its original court and once the opponent got confuse or got distract, they will be throw out easily.
However, team usually put one player into the red zone before the game, so team can passes the ball around.
Here is another major differences. One game will only have 1 ball, and game will starts on jump-ball where one player from each team comes to the circle in the middle for jump-ball, the same way as how basketball game starts.
Once the game starts, player will began to get opponent out and the team got wipe out first will be the loser. Some game allow player in the red zone to come back to the main court once they got an opponent out, however, it's all depend what rules they agree upon before the game.
A game requires minimum of 1 referee to empire the game, normally will have 2 referees calling the game on both side standing in front of the centre line. As I said earlier, the game can be play up to 30 people a side and can also play with 15 people a side as there's no limit.
The size of its main court is both 11m long and wide, and for the red zone is shown above.
It's vey entertain and fun to play under this lay-out. We used to have classes of 30 to 35 people and this is the sport that can bring everyone together as one, and show that we can do something as a team.
I hope this post would give you an ideal knowledge on how the dodgeball are play out in asia, and if you are interesting in this style, go and have a try!!
Billy,
Western European Style Dodgeball
Today I will describe the type of dodgeball we played, which I called it as “Western European style” dodgeball. It will also be the basic type of dodgeball, which mean there’s no twist or special rule, such as invisible-player in the court where that selected player is unbeatable.
Teams consist of 6 players on each side and the main objective is to end the game with more players than your opposition. There will be a main referee stands off the court but in front of the centre line to empire the game, also two side-line referees will stand on the far side parallel to the main referee and responsible to empire the team on their side.
A standard number of balls for a 6 player game is 4, and these balls will be place on the centre line with distance between each ball. Those 6 players will stand on each end line preparing to run forward steal the ball when the game starts, and those players are called "runner". The number of "runner" is depend on the amount of ball in the centre line, in this case, there can only be 4 players going for the ball when the game starts.
The length of the game and the rules will depend on the organiser or the event creator. For example, 5 rounds of 2 minutes on each game or 7 rounds of 3 minutes each game. Also, special rules can be set for the game, such as if the last person can survive in the court for 30 second, the rest of the team member can all come back into the game.
The most important and a MUST-SET rules is, do not aim above the chest and any player got hit above the chest will not be count.
So here you go, here is the basic structure and rules of the "Western European style” dodgeball, and Yes, if you missed the post on "dodgeball in Asia", click here for more detail of that!!
Billy
Up coming Post
Hi everyone, the past few months, I had the privilege to take part and learnt the game of Dodgeball with a qualified dodgeball coach.
I realized what I learnt and play in different from what I used to play in Taiwan, and the rules are different too.
So I want to point out the differences in the next two blog posts, and I will be discussing the different style of dodgeball been play out in different places.
The purpose of these two blog posts is to show the differences, allow everyone to see there's actually some different in terms of the playing style. I hope by doing this can enhance the knowledge of different playing style to those of you have never hear about.
So stay tuned, more interesting blog posts will be coming soon!
Billy
I realized what I learnt and play in different from what I used to play in Taiwan, and the rules are different too.
So I want to point out the differences in the next two blog posts, and I will be discussing the different style of dodgeball been play out in different places.
The purpose of these two blog posts is to show the differences, allow everyone to see there's actually some different in terms of the playing style. I hope by doing this can enhance the knowledge of different playing style to those of you have never hear about.
So stay tuned, more interesting blog posts will be coming soon!
Billy
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Organisational Structure- part 2
In my last blog post, I identified and explain the use of Organisational Structure, so in this blog post, I will deliver how the organisation team and I created the Structure, the technology that we used was the Microsoft Powerpoint application.
I think there's a need to create a post that explain how to create the Organisational Structure in a simple way, and it's no doubt that there are few more professional application out there to create Organisational Structure for larger company. The following will be a step by step process for Organisation Structure in Microsoft Powerpoint .
Microsoft Powerpoint application, for those of you that knows, this is an application that mainly use for creating the presentation, and some statistics charts are able to created in the Microsoft Powerpoint application too.
The first step when we opened the Microsoft Powerpoint, you must to have a clear organisational Structure draft in mind, and this is the matter of how prepare you are when attending to the organisation team.
After that, you would find a block on the top called "SmartArt", which is the fifth block counting from the left and right side.
Once you select the "SmartArt" button, you would then see a few sample chart including the one to create the Organisational Structure, it's called "Hierarchy", which is also the fourth one counting from the left hand side, which shown on the picture below.
Once you select the "Hierarchy" button, you will see a range of style for Hierarchy chart, so you then select the style that you would like to use. In my case, I selected the basic style for my Organisational Structure.
After you select a hierarchy structure, you will see it automatically appear on your Powerpoint Screen, which the picture shown beside.
You can start to put the position into the box, listed as CEO or President on the top and the rest of the position after that. There's a option of adding boxes and moving the boxes around on the block column, so if you Organisational Structure is deep and lots of positions to add, you are able to do that by clicking the add button.
Finally, you are able to change color of the words and box to make it easier to understand.
The final draft of the organisation structure can be save as picture to the desktop, and once that is done, your self-created Organisation Structure is completed.
Here is the step by step process for creating the Organisation Structure, and it can be a useful skill to have, and again, although there are other more professional application to create Organisation Structure, the Microsoft Powerpoint is the application that everyone can easily get if the Microsoft were installed into you home computer or laptop.
I hope this blog post is useful to anyone who doesn't know Microsoft Powerpoint can create the Organisational structure.
There will be more skills-to-tell in my blog, so keep checking out my blog.
Click here for Part 1.
Billy
I think there's a need to create a post that explain how to create the Organisational Structure in a simple way, and it's no doubt that there are few more professional application out there to create Organisational Structure for larger company. The following will be a step by step process for Organisation Structure in Microsoft Powerpoint .
Microsoft Powerpoint application, for those of you that knows, this is an application that mainly use for creating the presentation, and some statistics charts are able to created in the Microsoft Powerpoint application too. The first step when we opened the Microsoft Powerpoint, you must to have a clear organisational Structure draft in mind, and this is the matter of how prepare you are when attending to the organisation team.
After that, you would find a block on the top called "SmartArt", which is the fifth block counting from the left and right side.
Once you select the "SmartArt" button, you would then see a few sample chart including the one to create the Organisational Structure, it's called "Hierarchy", which is also the fourth one counting from the left hand side, which shown on the picture below. Once you select the "Hierarchy" button, you will see a range of style for Hierarchy chart, so you then select the style that you would like to use. In my case, I selected the basic style for my Organisational Structure.
You can start to put the position into the box, listed as CEO or President on the top and the rest of the position after that. There's a option of adding boxes and moving the boxes around on the block column, so if you Organisational Structure is deep and lots of positions to add, you are able to do that by clicking the add button.
Finally, you are able to change color of the words and box to make it easier to understand. The final draft of the organisation structure can be save as picture to the desktop, and once that is done, your self-created Organisation Structure is completed.
Here is the step by step process for creating the Organisation Structure, and it can be a useful skill to have, and again, although there are other more professional application to create Organisation Structure, the Microsoft Powerpoint is the application that everyone can easily get if the Microsoft were installed into you home computer or laptop.
I hope this blog post is useful to anyone who doesn't know Microsoft Powerpoint can create the Organisational structure.
There will be more skills-to-tell in my blog, so keep checking out my blog.
Click here for Part 1.
Billy
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Organisational Structure- part 1
In today's post, I want to discuss the distinct of an organisational Structure, which i also been assigned to a organisation team that looking to create a new organisational structure, for a sport club called The Mighty Dodgers, it's a new dodgeball club bases in Crewe that provide coaching program for East Cheshire school children.
This is another new experience for me, and another new skill to me to developed.
Organisational Structure, as known as Organisational Chart, it's usually a hierarchical arrangement authority, communication lines, positions and roles of an organisation. Organisational structure presents a clear picture of how the roles are layout, and which position is responsible and control for certain area of work.
The skill to develop the organisational structure is a very important process for any organisation at any market size. The purpose of this is not just a paper with the position for the organisation, it shows the attitude within the organisation and the duties, responsibilities each roles and position are in charged with.
You can imaging what will happen to the organisation without the organisational structure, there will be a huge confusion in communication line, and employers or volunteers will be confuse in their responsible that lead to demotivation, also there would be a huge confusion when it comes to replacing roles.
In other sense, they organisation will be very disorganise which can causes a delay in organisation process, and this could have after-affect that lead to lost of clients, lost of opportunities for the organisation to make big profit.
During the process of creating the organisational structure with the team, I learnt how difficult it is to create the structure, because we have to consider the size of the organisational structure itself, and how it affects the communication in the organisation and also the culture of the organisation.
The longer and deeper the organisational structure, the more difficult the communication line will be, because the decision has to come down through more departments before it can reaches to the bottom row worker in the organisational structure. For example, in a 10 rows organisational structure, a CEO (the top) wants to change the attitude of the worker (the bottom), the message will have to go through 8 departments before deliver to the workers. On the other hand, in a 5 rows organisational structure, the same message will only have to go through 3 departments; and let's say each department will take a day to pass through the message, a 5 rows organisational structure takes less time than the 10 rows organisational structure.
As you can see from the self-created organisational structure Figure 1, the structure is deeper and the communication line within this organisation can be time-consuming. The reason is the amount of department they have in between the International Headquarters to the Corps and Technical services, which means, the International Headquarter want to pass an order to Corps and Technical services, the message will have to gone through Territorial Headquarters, then Divisional Headquarter and last to Corps and Technical services.
On the other hand, from the self-created organisational structure Figure 2, you can see the structure is more simple and straight forward. It also started with CEO on the top, but it only comes down to 1 department or headquarter, and each departments is under controlled few project teams. In this case, the communication line is more simple as it only has to gone through one department from the top to the bottom.
The strength of this organisation structure is the employers would feel more involve as they are closer to the CEO, which their performance can be assess at any time. The organization's objective can be more straight forward and more direct. However, this type of the organisational structure is more for the small size market organisation,
Also another important aspect that I learnt throughout the creating process was, to analysis and be attention with the level of power or attitude each heads of department are capable with, so we then decided weather to put more or less departments under his control.
The purpose of this is to make sure there's a responsible leader to lead and control the departments under him. For example, if manager A is responsible type and manager B is lazy type, then we would put a department under manager A to control.
If you want to know how the organisation team and I created the organisational Structure, please follow the next post!
See you later,
Billy
This is another new experience for me, and another new skill to me to developed.
Organisational Structure, as known as Organisational Chart, it's usually a hierarchical arrangement authority, communication lines, positions and roles of an organisation. Organisational structure presents a clear picture of how the roles are layout, and which position is responsible and control for certain area of work.
Organisational structure also affects organisational action in two big ways. Firstly, it provides the foundation on which standard operating procedures and routines rest. Secondly, it determines which individuals get to participate in which decision-making processes, and thus to what extent their views shape the organization’s actions.
The skill to develop the organisational structure is a very important process for any organisation at any market size. The purpose of this is not just a paper with the position for the organisation, it shows the attitude within the organisation and the duties, responsibilities each roles and position are in charged with.
You can imaging what will happen to the organisation without the organisational structure, there will be a huge confusion in communication line, and employers or volunteers will be confuse in their responsible that lead to demotivation, also there would be a huge confusion when it comes to replacing roles.
In other sense, they organisation will be very disorganise which can causes a delay in organisation process, and this could have after-affect that lead to lost of clients, lost of opportunities for the organisation to make big profit.
During the process of creating the organisational structure with the team, I learnt how difficult it is to create the structure, because we have to consider the size of the organisational structure itself, and how it affects the communication in the organisation and also the culture of the organisation.
The longer and deeper the organisational structure, the more difficult the communication line will be, because the decision has to come down through more departments before it can reaches to the bottom row worker in the organisational structure. For example, in a 10 rows organisational structure, a CEO (the top) wants to change the attitude of the worker (the bottom), the message will have to go through 8 departments before deliver to the workers. On the other hand, in a 5 rows organisational structure, the same message will only have to go through 3 departments; and let's say each department will take a day to pass through the message, a 5 rows organisational structure takes less time than the 10 rows organisational structure.
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| Figure 1 |
On the other hand, from the self-created organisational structure Figure 2, you can see the structure is more simple and straight forward. It also started with CEO on the top, but it only comes down to 1 department or headquarter, and each departments is under controlled few project teams. In this case, the communication line is more simple as it only has to gone through one department from the top to the bottom.
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| Figure 2 |
The strength of this organisation structure is the employers would feel more involve as they are closer to the CEO, which their performance can be assess at any time. The organization's objective can be more straight forward and more direct. However, this type of the organisational structure is more for the small size market organisation,
Also another important aspect that I learnt throughout the creating process was, to analysis and be attention with the level of power or attitude each heads of department are capable with, so we then decided weather to put more or less departments under his control.
The purpose of this is to make sure there's a responsible leader to lead and control the departments under him. For example, if manager A is responsible type and manager B is lazy type, then we would put a department under manager A to control.
If you want to know how the organisation team and I created the organisational Structure, please follow the next post!
See you later,
Billy
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
The assistant- Agenda!
In recent days, I attended a few committee meeting, and I noticed the most important skill but not many people take it seriously is the skill to create "meeting Agenda".
To be able to run a successful and efficient meeting, the most important factor is to be "Organise". The use of agenda for each meeting is to list the items in order that will be discuss in the meeting. However, they are many layout for agenda in different meeting, what I suggest is to make it as simple as possible so it's easily understand.
Therefore I took the opportunity to be an agenda creator and responsible to create agenda for every meeting. The basic content for agenda included the "Time of the meeting", "Where to be hold", "Duration of the meeting" and of course the most important item to put is the "Name of the company".
Furthermore, it then comes down to the specific section - each individual items that will be discuss for the meeting and of course, each meeting will have different item to discuss; therefore it's important for the agenda creator to keep up to date with the meeting and what need to be discuss.
There are a few items that have to be included for every meeting in the agenda I create, such as the "Apology of Absence", "Review of previous minutes" and "Any of Business"for other to bring up their idea on thing that they wish to discuss.
The agenda must be send to every participant 10 days before the actual meeting, so that participant can arrange their schedule to be available for the meeting. Agenda can be use in many areas, it doesn't need to be business meeting, it can be a society meeting or sport club meeting.
Click here for the website I think is worth of reading in creating an efficient agenda.
I will give an example of the importance of the agenda for the meeting. Since the first meeting I had with the community, we always have the meeting agenda and were all created by me, and every discussion in meeting were all went through the list of order in the agenda, I believe if we don't have the agenda for every meeting we might miss out items that need to be discuss and causes further problem, such as delay of work.
I suggest if there's any opportunity to be an agenda creator, go for the position and take it. It simply not the hardest job in the business community or programme, but it's one of the most important job for the community and it only take about 10 or 15 minutes to complete the agenda.
Due to the fact that I have developed the skill in creating the agenda, I then add another skill that show the knowledge I have about conference or community meeting.
Billy, Later.
To be able to run a successful and efficient meeting, the most important factor is to be "Organise". The use of agenda for each meeting is to list the items in order that will be discuss in the meeting. However, they are many layout for agenda in different meeting, what I suggest is to make it as simple as possible so it's easily understand.
Therefore I took the opportunity to be an agenda creator and responsible to create agenda for every meeting. The basic content for agenda included the "Time of the meeting", "Where to be hold", "Duration of the meeting" and of course the most important item to put is the "Name of the company".
Furthermore, it then comes down to the specific section - each individual items that will be discuss for the meeting and of course, each meeting will have different item to discuss; therefore it's important for the agenda creator to keep up to date with the meeting and what need to be discuss.
There are a few items that have to be included for every meeting in the agenda I create, such as the "Apology of Absence", "Review of previous minutes" and "Any of Business"for other to bring up their idea on thing that they wish to discuss.
The agenda must be send to every participant 10 days before the actual meeting, so that participant can arrange their schedule to be available for the meeting. Agenda can be use in many areas, it doesn't need to be business meeting, it can be a society meeting or sport club meeting.
Click here for the website I think is worth of reading in creating an efficient agenda.
I will give an example of the importance of the agenda for the meeting. Since the first meeting I had with the community, we always have the meeting agenda and were all created by me, and every discussion in meeting were all went through the list of order in the agenda, I believe if we don't have the agenda for every meeting we might miss out items that need to be discuss and causes further problem, such as delay of work.
I suggest if there's any opportunity to be an agenda creator, go for the position and take it. It simply not the hardest job in the business community or programme, but it's one of the most important job for the community and it only take about 10 or 15 minutes to complete the agenda.
Due to the fact that I have developed the skill in creating the agenda, I then add another skill that show the knowledge I have about conference or community meeting.
Billy, Later.
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Become a Good Speaker pt.2- Improve speaking
After pointing out the power of Rhetoric, with an understanding of the use of hand movement, eye contact and necessary pause in the speech, the next step is to find out what we can do in order to improve our communication.
However, it's very difficult to split nonverbal, oral and written communication into individual action plan, saying do this will improve nonverbal communication and do that will improve oral communication, because each of the communications are link together.
Therefore, beside looking around to see who is the most determine or dominant person in class, you could also watch a few TED talk speaker video. However, you must do this consistently and make it a daily activity in order to convert the skill into your long term memories.
Some great examples beside the victory speech given by President Obama in the previous post, that I found it very useful in terms of improve my own communication and rhetoric skill.
The TED talk speaker, Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (2006). I found the topic was very interesting, and while it's interesting Sir Ken Robinson made it entertainment by including some humours during the talk, and he has definitely stolen audiences attention.
Another good example will be Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do (2006). In the TED talk, there were a lot of point that make me rethink what I should do and why didn't I do that before. The way he gave the speech was very honest therefore it attracts me and obviously had attracted the audiences at the time.
In both video suggested above, there was a very strong interaction with the audience whether by sharing a joke or asking question that seek a respond from the audience, it works! The hand movement was strong, make it clear of what he fully believe and convincing us to believe it too.
In Tony Robbins TED talk, he interacted with the audience by saying "How many of you who knows what I'm talking about, give me an aight!" and the next second you could hear the room was full of "aight" in the video.
So action 1, is to watch TED talk speaker handle their speech and the audience, and make it a daily activity,
Another way that I think it would result an improvement in communication is be aggressive in any opportunity that offer yourself a chance to present a speech or project idea. However, this is depend on how much you want and how much heart you willing to put in.
What I found by practicing this way is the fear of failure inside my mind. The first few attempts, I was speechless because I was afraid that I might say something wrong and people around me would make a joke out of it. However, what I did was speak to myself, convincing myself that this could be the last opportunity to either ask question or share my own idea.
Once I raise up my courage to share my idea and ask question in few attempts, I then found an raise in my confident when speaking to others.
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
Become a Good Speaker
So in my last post, I mentioned the importance of Communication, and I gave a few examples to show both successful and failure way of using different communication.
Now in this post, I will list down a few elements that is required in order to be a good speaker. Good speaker meaning the spotlight are all on one individual, audiences get motivate and cheering, clapping comes automatically.
First of all, one of my teacher told me, the best way to discover who is the most dominant and influential person in the class is to be aware of their body language- nonverbal communication; to observe the way they sit in class, the position they chose to sit and the concentration they have in class.
Some little movement and small detail, such as the pause, the nod, the hand movement and the eye contact can be very effective in range from little conversation to speech in front of hundred or million of people.
Let me (try my best to) show you an comparison example on what I meant the pause, nod, etc.
A: Today, I'm happy to announce my engagement with Vivian. (say this sentence with no pause in between, just be as normal as possible)
B: Today (pause for 3 second and look around the audience), I'm happy (put both of your hands together in front of your chest) to announce my engagement (pause for 3 second and look around) with Vivian (point at Vivian with a big smile).
You can see (or imaging) the different it would makes just by adding a few pauses a hand movement in between. You will gather audience's attention when using pauses at the right moment, looking around the audience would give people a feeling of they are special and important. Let me show you an clip that present a good example:
The power of Rhetoric!
President Barak Obama delivered victory speech in 2012. In this speech, President Obama used the words "You", " the American people", "We are American","One union" and "this country" to engage and motivate with the audience.
Also to note that President Obama did not look at the camera during his speech, he focus on eye contact with the audience by looking his left and right consistently, to make sure that he is speaking to everyone, not any individual.
President Obama had express the beauty of hand movement and pauses in this speech. Every motivate words and thing that he wanted to emphasis were combined with different hand movement, therefore the audience could identify what's importance by the hand movement.
The next time you are up to give a speech in front of audiences or convince someone, try to add a few hand movement and pauses, the outcome could be different.
In business, sports or anywhere, the successful people may have talent or gift within them, but people that knows how to inspire the audience is the one will get most respect and have most control.
Click here for Part 2!
Billy
Now in this post, I will list down a few elements that is required in order to be a good speaker. Good speaker meaning the spotlight are all on one individual, audiences get motivate and cheering, clapping comes automatically.
First of all, one of my teacher told me, the best way to discover who is the most dominant and influential person in the class is to be aware of their body language- nonverbal communication; to observe the way they sit in class, the position they chose to sit and the concentration they have in class.
Some little movement and small detail, such as the pause, the nod, the hand movement and the eye contact can be very effective in range from little conversation to speech in front of hundred or million of people.
Let me (try my best to) show you an comparison example on what I meant the pause, nod, etc.
A: Today, I'm happy to announce my engagement with Vivian. (say this sentence with no pause in between, just be as normal as possible)
B: Today (pause for 3 second and look around the audience), I'm happy (put both of your hands together in front of your chest) to announce my engagement (pause for 3 second and look around) with Vivian (point at Vivian with a big smile).
You can see (or imaging) the different it would makes just by adding a few pauses a hand movement in between. You will gather audience's attention when using pauses at the right moment, looking around the audience would give people a feeling of they are special and important. Let me show you an clip that present a good example:
The power of Rhetoric!
President Barak Obama delivered victory speech in 2012. In this speech, President Obama used the words "You", " the American people", "We are American","One union" and "this country" to engage and motivate with the audience.
Also to note that President Obama did not look at the camera during his speech, he focus on eye contact with the audience by looking his left and right consistently, to make sure that he is speaking to everyone, not any individual.
President Obama had express the beauty of hand movement and pauses in this speech. Every motivate words and thing that he wanted to emphasis were combined with different hand movement, therefore the audience could identify what's importance by the hand movement.
The next time you are up to give a speech in front of audiences or convince someone, try to add a few hand movement and pauses, the outcome could be different.
In business, sports or anywhere, the successful people may have talent or gift within them, but people that knows how to inspire the audience is the one will get most respect and have most control.
Click here for Part 2!
Billy
Friday, 8 February 2013
Communication- Adapt or die!
Over the past few years, I been traveling around the world experiencing the cultural differences, the language barrier and so on. And I will use one line from the movie "Moneyball", from Brad Pitt - "Adapt or die"!!
It's true. Sometime when you move to a new environment, there's no way the environment will change for you, only adapting the environment can save you from struggling; therefore the first thing that I think it's important to point out and discuss based on my previous experience, is the importance of communication.
Human communication can be divided into three major categories, which are shown below. The chart below is a self-created hierarchy chart on communication.
Nonverbal communication are known as non-wording style of delivering the message, such as haptics, gesture, body language and facial expression. You can see this style of communication in baseball game where coach throws the sign to his players.
And the last is Written communication. It has changed largely due to the technology improvement over the years. It originally was pen and paper written down the message to be delivered, however, we can now use laptop or phone to type up the message on to computer system to deliver our message. An example of this is the daily newspaper.
A good communication is that both people achieve delivering the message and receive the message, also with a level of understanding the message content. For example, the baseball coach throws the signal to his players and his players make the correct plays, this call a successful nonverbal communication.
So how is communication important in our daily life?
Let me give you a few examples that happened recently.
One of the example which happened in my volunteering hours was in a committee meeting, where I shared an idea that I would love to take charge of a sponsorship team, and asking if everyone in the committee agree on creating an extra team and also who would like to take part with me. During the speech for my idea, I saw most of the members were nodding their heads while eye focus on me, at that point, I knew that my message has been delivered to the members successfully. And with the feedback saying "yeah, I think that a good idea" and "Billy, I will help you in this project", I knew immediately that everyone had agreed with this idea.
Another example that given here is a "Not so successful attempt" of using communication.
I remember in one of the committee meeting. I wanted to remind our chairperson to discuss about one item, so I tried to tap the table lightly and tried to stretch my arm hoping that I will get his attention, but that didn't work so well. So I kept on trying with sending him a phone message with the message that I wanted to deliver, but he had his phone on silence, so that didn't work again. After that, I had my phone out on the table and tried to use my finger to tap the phone, hoping that he would turn to me and get the meaning of "look at the phone".
However, that make it a third "Not so successful attempt"!!
In these two examples, you can clearly see the different style of communication being used and the end results of them.
The first example was successful because my message was delivered with my personal voice, which is oral communication. On the other hand, the second examples didn't work so successful was because I couldn't get my receiver's attention by using nonverbal communication.
However, I can be certain that you received my message on communication. And which style of communication am I using here?
See you soon, Billy
It's true. Sometime when you move to a new environment, there's no way the environment will change for you, only adapting the environment can save you from struggling; therefore the first thing that I think it's important to point out and discuss based on my previous experience, is the importance of communication.
Human communication can be divided into three major categories, which are shown below. The chart below is a self-created hierarchy chart on communication.
Nonverbal communication are known as non-wording style of delivering the message, such as haptics, gesture, body language and facial expression. You can see this style of communication in baseball game where coach throws the sign to his players.
Oral communication as known as verbal communication. As simple as what it says, it delivers the message throughout voice. When you watch the news on TV, the reporter is using Oral communication to report the news.
And the last is Written communication. It has changed largely due to the technology improvement over the years. It originally was pen and paper written down the message to be delivered, however, we can now use laptop or phone to type up the message on to computer system to deliver our message. An example of this is the daily newspaper.
A good communication is that both people achieve delivering the message and receive the message, also with a level of understanding the message content. For example, the baseball coach throws the signal to his players and his players make the correct plays, this call a successful nonverbal communication.
Let me give you a few examples that happened recently.
One of the example which happened in my volunteering hours was in a committee meeting, where I shared an idea that I would love to take charge of a sponsorship team, and asking if everyone in the committee agree on creating an extra team and also who would like to take part with me. During the speech for my idea, I saw most of the members were nodding their heads while eye focus on me, at that point, I knew that my message has been delivered to the members successfully. And with the feedback saying "yeah, I think that a good idea" and "Billy, I will help you in this project", I knew immediately that everyone had agreed with this idea.
Another example that given here is a "Not so successful attempt" of using communication.
I remember in one of the committee meeting. I wanted to remind our chairperson to discuss about one item, so I tried to tap the table lightly and tried to stretch my arm hoping that I will get his attention, but that didn't work so well. So I kept on trying with sending him a phone message with the message that I wanted to deliver, but he had his phone on silence, so that didn't work again. After that, I had my phone out on the table and tried to use my finger to tap the phone, hoping that he would turn to me and get the meaning of "look at the phone".
However, that make it a third "Not so successful attempt"!!
In these two examples, you can clearly see the different style of communication being used and the end results of them.
The first example was successful because my message was delivered with my personal voice, which is oral communication. On the other hand, the second examples didn't work so successful was because I couldn't get my receiver's attention by using nonverbal communication.
However, I can be certain that you received my message on communication. And which style of communication am I using here?
See you soon, Billy
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Welcome to my blog
Hello all, this is where everything begin and lead to success- a start, a first!
This blog focus on discovering the weaknesses that occur in everyone of us, and I will be suggesting ways to overcome it with detail breakdown.
And by doing this way, I can also figure out my own weaknesses in order to improve them, so it's like a two way process for me that I can share my experience with you while improving my own weaknesses.
And by doing this way, I can also figure out my own weaknesses in order to improve them, so it's like a two way process for me that I can share my experience with you while improving my own weaknesses.
Hope what I'm doing can have a positive impact for any of you that area facing difficult time in life.
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Sports has always been a big part of my life. The excitement of the game, the emotional from individual players, the way you look into your teammates' eyes, every moment that fires up the desire inside me to fight all the energy I got until each game finishes.
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