I developed in life a generosity and a craving for sympathy.
A fear was to talk in front of a crowd. I botched my marriage speech at the reception with a nervous few words “ thank you for all coming” and sat down. My father leant over the table and told me to calm down. If that was an indication of terror, worse was to come in corporate business.
I wanted to do something about it, as I could not escape life without at some point making a speech. So I went to a Dale Carnegie presentation in the Carlton centre. About fifty delegates attended. During the breakfast session a speaker approached the podium and said that delegates should write their names, hobbies and passions on a piece of paper. My passions?
The speaker put the names in a hat and pulled out ten random to approach the stand and talk for fifteen minutes. …show more content…
My luck, I would be called when I was unprepared for an impromptu talk. Without further ado, I excused myself from the table to go to the toilet. An obvious excuse, but I didn’t care; I was dying inside and had to escape. So I left the seminar half way through breakfast and went back to work.
I got by for years to avoiding speeches. Until D Day arrived and the Technical Director of National Chemical Products approached me to give a speech on procurement in front of forty chemical engineers. I was the senior project buyer and there was no escape for me. I sweated, I wasn’t breathing properly and when I bent down my glasses fell off. I was a nervous wreck and my speech was an abortion not a memory I cherish.
In Anglo Platinum Franz was confident and although not proficient in English, he studied the NEC contract and presented it to the project on how best to run a project. Franz asked me to sit in on his presentations and he presented two or three a month. He gave it with a tinge of humour, because the subject was dry, but he knew it well. He supplied hand notes of his presentations at the
A fear was to talk in front of a crowd. I botched my marriage speech at the reception with a nervous few words “ thank you for all coming” and sat down. My father leant over the table and told me to calm down. If that was an indication of terror, worse was to come in corporate business.
I wanted to do something about it, as I could not escape life without at some point making a speech. So I went to a Dale Carnegie presentation in the Carlton centre. About fifty delegates attended. During the breakfast session a speaker approached the podium and said that delegates should write their names, hobbies and passions on a piece of paper. My passions?
The speaker put the names in a hat and pulled out ten random to approach the stand and talk for fifteen minutes. …show more content…
My luck, I would be called when I was unprepared for an impromptu talk. Without further ado, I excused myself from the table to go to the toilet. An obvious excuse, but I didn’t care; I was dying inside and had to escape. So I left the seminar half way through breakfast and went back to work.
I got by for years to avoiding speeches. Until D Day arrived and the Technical Director of National Chemical Products approached me to give a speech on procurement in front of forty chemical engineers. I was the senior project buyer and there was no escape for me. I sweated, I wasn’t breathing properly and when I bent down my glasses fell off. I was a nervous wreck and my speech was an abortion not a memory I cherish.
In Anglo Platinum Franz was confident and although not proficient in English, he studied the NEC contract and presented it to the project on how best to run a project. Franz asked me to sit in on his presentations and he presented two or three a month. He gave it with a tinge of humour, because the subject was dry, but he knew it well. He supplied hand notes of his presentations at the