'Miss Madhuri, It's high time to do your Ice Breaker Speech' a friendly reminder from my president. By that time I was fortunate to listen to two Ice Breaker Speeches interesting and informative!
What am I going to tell them...I'm fifty four year old...how can I tell all these information, stepping stones of my life at the meeting? I couldn't speak normally for about two minutes: would I be able to speak for five minutes? All those questions I asked from me!!
For the first time in life I learnt to prioritize, select and organize the facts in an interesting way. How I spent my childhood, the turning points of my life, the lessons learnt and many more. Believe I could speak for more that five minutes! Everyone was impressed. That was the confidence the 'Kandy Toastmasters' had given to me. 😊
I realized the way to organize a speech and to personalize the topic to make it more interesting.
My first evaluator was DTM Munawwara who told me to improve my voice variations and I'm so grateful for the positive feedback which she gave to come out of my fear of public speaking.
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Yes, As I was bit nervous on the day I had to do my first speech, it was so special for me when the evaluator’s feedback gave the confidence to step forward and overcome fears. and I’m sure that I have improved my speaking style since that first evaluation.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Anita
DeleteBoth of us were having loads of uncertainty and fear. Specially fear of making mistakes.
Now we know how to overcome them with quite confidence.