29th august,
It’s 4am in the morning and I am half awake twisting and turning on the bed to get some more sleep. But all in vain, I was fully awake by 6am. I prepared coffee for my husband and me. It was time for exercise. I am on my elliptical peddling hard to burn calories, but for the first time I was not even looking at the calories displayed. My mind is on the presentation that I have to deliver today. While preparing breakfast also I was murmuring my presentation in mind. I could see the slides moving one by one and me talking. I was literally visualising the
training.
I was all ready to go to office. I reached office on time. For the final time I went through the presentation. I was all confident, and pumped up with energy. It was 1 in the afternoon and my cab arrived. In an hour we reached the client place. The moment I stepped into the training room, a quiver went through my spine. I was feeling little nervous.
I was given the responsibility to train 10 employees on self confidence. I was reminding myself by saying that the day has come when I am the trainer and not the participant attending the training. I started with the session by introducing myself.
There was a little starting trouble from both my side as well as participant’s side. In the beginning I started speaking and noticed the confused face of the participants which made me realize that my speaking pace was fast. Immediately I started speaking slow with breaks in
between.
Since I wanted to make my session an interactive one I started asking them their views and opinions on different topics. I started writing down those points on the white board so that I link those statements and move forward.
Slowly I started getting smiles from the participants, my nervousness just disappeared, I became comfortable. I don’t know was it knowingly or unknowingly that I started building a rapport with them. They also became very friendly. My session went on for 3hrs. I was happy. Now from their feedback I came to know that many were happy and few were not.In the end my hard work paid off.
It’s 4am in the morning and I am half awake twisting and turning on the bed to get some more sleep. But all in vain, I was fully awake by 6am. I prepared coffee for my husband and me. It was time for exercise. I am on my elliptical peddling hard to burn calories, but for the first time I was not even looking at the calories displayed. My mind is on the presentation that I have to deliver today. While preparing breakfast also I was murmuring my presentation in mind. I could see the slides moving one by one and me talking. I was literally visualising the
training.
I was all ready to go to office. I reached office on time. For the final time I went through the presentation. I was all confident, and pumped up with energy. It was 1 in the afternoon and my cab arrived. In an hour we reached the client place. The moment I stepped into the training room, a quiver went through my spine. I was feeling little nervous.
I was given the responsibility to train 10 employees on self confidence. I was reminding myself by saying that the day has come when I am the trainer and not the participant attending the training. I started with the session by introducing myself.
There was a little starting trouble from both my side as well as participant’s side. In the beginning I started speaking and noticed the confused face of the participants which made me realize that my speaking pace was fast. Immediately I started speaking slow with breaks in
between.
Since I wanted to make my session an interactive one I started asking them their views and opinions on different topics. I started writing down those points on the white board so that I link those statements and move forward.
Slowly I started getting smiles from the participants, my nervousness just disappeared, I became comfortable. I don’t know was it knowingly or unknowingly that I started building a rapport with them. They also became very friendly. My session went on for 3hrs. I was happy. Now from their feedback I came to know that many were happy and few were not.In the end my hard work paid off.
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