YOU DON'T GET CONFIDENCE IN A GROCERY SHOP
Pic.: Alwyn Mathias A 13-year-old girl was there on stage for the first time, yesterday. She was very nervous, almost frozen. Now, our first job is to help the young-one not to feel embarrassed about such a plight… that, it is perfectly okay to be nervous… that, like her, most of us are nervous, and, as we learn to handle those first few seconds on stage, we do learn to handle the rest of the presentation. So, it is important, that the nervous speaker is freed from any such guilt or embarrassment on stage. As a trainer, how you deal with such a speaker – what you tell, how you tell and how loving and caring you are – would tell whether or not the young-one would go home feeling stronger or weaker… feeling on top of the world or at the bottom of the pit… It was a group of pre-teens. This particular girl was, thus, the oldest of all. As I, always, do after every speech, I prompted little-ones to tell what was good about the speaker… They had to be alert and e...