...ensure that you do not end up reading them word for word: * Use speaking notes to capture the outline of your presentation. If you write out everything you want to say, you will likely end up reading it to your audience. * Use speaking notes to capture additional points or points of interest you want to mention. * Put your speaking notes on index cards, instead of full sheets of paper. Index cards are easier to hold (and have less space for notes!). * * Impromptu speaking * without preparation * Made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds. * Overcome Anxiety and stage fright * The first step in mastering stage fright, and all kinds of performance anxiety, is to get a good understanding of just what kind of problem you're dealing with. There's a trick to stage fright, as there is with most phobias, and you really need to understand the trick to find the solutions you need. * Tip # 1: Practice, Practice, Practice! * Sometimes, our performance anxiety comes about because we have not practiced our song enough, and we are...
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...------------------------------------------------- Workshop Two BIBLICAL WISDOM Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Mark 11:25 (NIV) “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." Bobby Knight, the former coach of Indiana University’s basketball team, had an angry outburst and assaulted one of his players. The university sent him to “anger management” treatment. He subsequently had another major angry outburst and was fired—despite having been one of the most successful college basketball coaches in history! The correct way to stop the whistling teakettle is to turn off the burner. Likewise, the answer to ending angry outbursts is to find the root cause of the anger, and then “turn it off.” Forgiveness will turn off the burner. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES By the completion of this workshop, the student will be able to: * Evaluate scenarios in which listening has been compromised. * Examine conflict management in the workplace. * Describe barriers of effective listening. * Compare ambiguous and specific language. * Investigate the use of praise and criticism in the workplace. * Create slides using a professional design selected in PowerPoint. ------------------------------------------------- Workshop Two Assignments The following assignments will be submitted prior to Workshop Two. Individual...
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...Fright Night Fright night is a horror and comedy movie. Directed and written by Tom Holland, released in 1985. Fright Night is about a teenager that discovers a vampire lives in the house next door, but no one will believe him. THESIS?? Nose que poner! Setting and time of the movie is what most of the audience commonly wants to know about. The screen time of the movie is of 106 minutes, but the duration in the movie’s story is less than a month. The movie took these weeks to explain and emphasize each scene correctly. This time was to show exactly scene-by-scene since the beginning of the story, how the character discovers something and his struggle to prove it. The setting of the story is in a neighborhood, where the main character lives in. This neighborhood is located in Culver City, California in the United States. Most of the story takes place in that neighborhood, the key moments of the movie happen in there. The genre of this movie is comedy and horror. Fright Night movie uses horror to scare the audience, but in most of the scenes comedy was involved. Characters are critically important for the creation of a good movie. The protagonist is a teenager called Charlie Brewster, acted by the great actor William Ragsdale. The antagonist is a vampire called Jerry Dandridge, interpreted by the actor Chris Sarandon. Some other main characters are Charlie’s girlfriend Amy Peterson, Charlie’s best friend Evil Ed, and Dr. Vincent, and old man who had a program about how...
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...Stage Fright I have this fear. It causes my legs to shake. I break out in a cold sweat. I start jabbering to anyone who is nearby. As thoughts of certain death run through my mind, the world appears a precious, treasured place. I imagine my own funeral, and then shrink back at the implications of where my thoughts are taking me. My stomach feels strange. My palms are clammy. I was in the ninth grade in October 2004 in India. That was my new school. People were unknown and teachers were new to me. Moreover, I was a shy girl. My teacher selected me for the speech. It was a competition. My topic was “Family v/s Career.” So many things there in my mind were scaring. First thing was, “what am I going to say?” Second think was, “how will I speak in front of that huge audience?” Last think was, “everyone will make a fun of me.” I had two weeks to prepare. My mom and my instructor helped me with preparing my speech. The day of completion came. The completion was in the school’s private auditorium. I waited tensely behind the stage curtain, reciting my lines as if my life depended on it, whom was I kidding? My life did depend on it. If I failed here then all of my dignity would shatter like a bullet on glass. There was one, rather insignificant consolation, the blatant expressions on the other kids' faces portrayed that they were just as apprehensive as I was. My eyes were glued to my script as if magnetically attracted to it. I desperately tried to focus, but it was futile...
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... Introduction There are five main stages in group development. These are formation, storming, norming, the performing stage and the adjourning stage (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2007). It is necessary for each of these stages to be undertaken by every group; clearly knowing when on stage ends and another begins. Failures to do so, problems occur, that may culminate to poor performance or not completing the assignment at all. An analysis on a research carried out in the University of Ontario, school of business. Students were asked to carry out a group assignment. This paper discusses Problems, causes and possible solutions of the problems in this group. a) The Issue. In Christine’s group, there are a number of issues that stir concern. Mike does not take his part of the assignment seriously. He comes to meetings poorly prepared and enjoys talking about unimportant issues during discussions and misses others. Janet, although hardworking, misses meeting sessions without apology. Christine, as the group leader, does not manage to unite the group members so as to achieve the best results. This does not comply with the mission statement and job description they had earlier signed in the exhibits. Janet’s plan to leave the group and work alone is an indication of the failure of the group to stick together. The major issue in this organization is leadership incompetence. b) The Problem Cause. In The forming stage, the members get to understand each other; allocating...
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...learned to complete the second simulation in a much more efficient and timely manner. There are three stages in the simulation, including mobilization, movement, and sustain phases. The simulation begins in the mobilization phase, and in this phase it was important to get everyone aware of the new change we wish to initiate in the company. The key factor in the beginning was to introduce the new project to each person on a personal level, using personal interviews, skill building, and getting consultant’s support. All of these involve personal contact and were effective in making people both aware and interested to the change. The second stage was movement phase, and the key factors that lead to success in this stages was maintaining high credibility. We could gain credibility through getting consultant’s support and getting CEO’s public support. As majority individuals got into interest and trial stages we were able to use town hall meetings and walk the talk, which attracted more workers to be in interest and trial stages. Again, maintaining high credibility was important throughout the stages because low credibility meant low chance with people would buy in to the initiative. Lastly, in the sustain phase, having personal contact with each individual using private interview was an extremely powerful tool for making individuals in trial stages to move up to adoption stage. Moreover, recognizing an adopter, walk the talk , and holding town hall meeting were also...
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...which cover: 1 2 3 4 The investigation as a whole Planning Stage Developing Stage Evaluation Stage Handouts 1 and 2 could be distributed at the start of the investigation while the other two could be given to students once they completed the previous stage of their investigation and are ready to embark on the next part of the process. If desired, all could be handed out at the start of the investigation. Investigation In order to successfully complete the HND in Business with Accounting you must undertake an investigation of a business issue. This is a graded assessment and you will be given a grade for your work. Your grade will be determined by your mark: Grade A — 70% – 100% Grade B — 60% – 69% Grade C — 50% – 59% If you do not achieve 50%, you will not achieve in this Unit. You are required to investigate a business issue and to assess its implications for a business or a number of businesses. The investigation has three stages: 1 Planning stage — for this you must prepare a brief for your investigation and devise a plan to carry it out. This stage carries 24% of the total marks. Developing stage — this carries 52% of the total marks and requires you to produce a written report of your investigation. Evaluating stage — for this you must provide an evaluation of the effectiveness of all parts of your investigation. This stage carries 24% of the total marks. 2 3 Throughout the planning and development stages of the investigation you will produce a log of activities...
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...that assists them in identifying the progression through the different stages of the project. A project is typically defined as an undertaking that is of a complex nature that is non-routine, a one-time effort and is limited by time, budget constraints, resources, and performance specifications designs to meet the specific needs of the final recipient (Grey & Larson, 2006). A project in its established characteristics possesses a defined life span with a beginning and end date, an established objective, specific time, cost, and performance requirement as mentioned earlier. A project also involves several departments and professionals, and most importantly, doing something that has never been done before. From the characteristics of a project mentioned above, a project life cycle fits with the defined life span of the project and the milestones that needs to be accomplished at different stages while the project is in progress. The project life cycle consists of four different stages which includes the defining or initiation phase, the planning phase, the execution phase, and finally the closure phase. Through these four stages, the project kicks off, starting out slowly in the first stage, increase to a high peak as it is in full swing, and then declines as the project comes to a close. These different stages will be discussed in further detail and a visual demonstration will also be given. The first stage of the project life cycle...
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...existing models of discussion along with the affects, behaviours and cognitive feelings recognized as part of the process of change throughout the stages in each. Bridges Transition Model This model focuses on the transition process rather than the steps of change. Change may happen to people without any warning, as where transition is usually a slow internal process. The Bridges Transition Model is defined by 3 stages. Stage 1 – Ending, Losing and Letting Go This stage involves letting go of the way things are. Resistance and emotional disturbance are commonly present in the beginning stages of this model. The affects of this stage includes feelings of fear, denial, disorientation, frustration, uncertainty, anger and a sense of loss. Bridges believes people cannot recognize the new idea until the acceptance that something is ending has taken place. This may end up being a fairly length Education on how an individuals current experience, knowledge and skills can assist in a more positive future can be very helpful here. Stage 2 – The Neutral Zone This stage represents the time gap between the letting go of the old and bringing in the new therefore an affect of confusion and uncertainty which drives the need to get out of it. This is where rushing ahead to the new situation or retreat to the old one is common. Spending time in this stage is encouraged so creativity and...
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...Teamwork and Team Performance - Case Study 3/23/2013 Contents 1. Group Development 3 2. Problem Identification 3 3. Retrospective Evaluation 4 4. Reflection 5 1. Group Development There are five stages of group development in which a team passes through: Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The group for this case study is currently, 1 week before the due date, in both the norming stage and performing stage. They have adapted to the absence of Mike and are motivated to finish the analysis in an effort to achieve a good grade. Each member has completed their part except Mike, who has just handed in notes to Christine. All of the other members have looked past any turmoil of Mike and either adapted to that or ignored him. Managing a team through these five stages will increase the overall effectiveness of that team; therefore understanding the different stages could have assisted Christine. If she knew what each stage entailed ahead of time, she could have anticipated certain issues or attempted to resolve them. In the beginning Christine should have laid out the group rules, assigned all the tasks, and allowed the members to introduce themselves and get to know one another. I think she did a good job leading them into scheduled meetings; however, Mike was just a complainer about the early meeting. When tension arose in the group, because Mike was upset seeing the group members having a good time and mingling without him...
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...ED 673 School Culture | Follow-Up #2 | Scenario Responses | | Nan Kane | 0/29/2013 | | Scenario #1: Part A: Description of School Culture Issues The key school culture issue in scenario #1 is that the team is an interdisciplinary team that is not function as such. They have been together for six years and works like a “well-oiled machine. It is obvious that the team has worked through the four stages of group development because they have addressed the social, emotional, and developmental needs of their students. The team has the cornerstones for effective collaboration and teamwork People, Task and Process (Conzemius and O’Neill, 2002). They have the leadership, commitment, knowledge, and skills. The team has made decisions, problem solved, communicated, and met. They also accomplished certain goals. Productive collaboration takes both purpose and skill to be effective (Conzemius and O’Neill, 2002). The team has demonstrated the ability to create and implement a plan for addressing the emotional, social and developmental needs of students. However, they are not clear about their purpose that was set by the principal to integrate instruction among the disciplines. Part B: Immediate Actions I will meet with the principal, which I view as someone having expert power. He has experience and expertise in the area of working with teams. We will discuss what I observed in the team meetings and come to a consensus to form new 7th grade interdisciplinary...
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...a performance name: “ . . .” What an amazing performance! The next following performance will come from our friends from Vstar School, “ . . .” The next following performance will come from our friends from Ton Duc Thang University, “ . . .” Our event will be continued with a performance from Colombian friends, “. . .” The next following performance will come from our friends from Vstar School, “ . . .” Now I want to introduce a performance name as: “ . . .” from Ton Duc Thang University. The next following performance will come from our friends from VPV, “ . . .” Thank you for your great performance! Phase 4: Photos & Game! To save our great memories, we would like to take photos all together. Please move closer to the stage. Would you please stand up, and put your chairs aside to have more space? First, I would like to invite friends from Colombia. Next, from Vstar. And TDT University....
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...Leading Change in Theory Reflective essay Reflective writing is a strategy where we as students recollect what we have learnt and the process we have undertaken in learning and use this to reflect on how we have educated ourselves. We describe our experiences in the process of learning along with bringing out the emotions we felt at the particular time, also we may consolidate prior knowledge along with the present in order to fully understand and grasp the experience. Reflective writing allows us to understand the entire process of learning. My group formerly consisted of six members and finally ended up with only three, this was due to one member dropping out of this module and another two being unable to work with the final group as they felt our language and intellect wasn’t up to the mark. This made me feel extremely let down and somewhat anxious as to how we would function as a group of only three individuals; however our progress greatly improved since we were a smaller and more cohesive group. Our group had a more democratic form of leadership and we shared a sense of collective identity which greatly benefited us in completing our task. Our group values focused greatly on openness, respect, contribution and happiness. Each member contributed almost equally to the overall process and the all three of us were willing to listen and understand each other’s opinions. We divided the work amongst ourselves and decided we would complete it and share it with each other through...
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...organisation aims to keep the living conditions of those prisoners at a particular standard. Furthermore, the novel “A man” by Oriana Fallaci and saying ‘goodbye’ to a career as a dancer were also significant stimuli. The recorded music was composed by Phillip Chambon, commissioned by London Festival Ballet. The designer again, was Christopher Bruce and the lighting was designed by David Mohr. Christopher Bruce designed Swansong’s setting on a bare proscenium stage, which leads the audience’s focus on the movement without any visual distractions. Dull colours are used to create the mood and atmosphere of being in a cell. The backdrop is black, showing that the cell-like stage is small, leaving the prisoner feeling trapped and claustrophobic, also creating a lonely and aggressive atmosphere. Another purpose of the colour is that it makes the dancers’ costumes stand out. The stage is also dark, which emphasises the interrogation. Although the stage is bare the interrogators always enter and exit from the same place on stage right giving the impression of there being a doorway into the dark room. The only visual clue is a sturdy...
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...changes over both acts in small but significant ways allowing the audience to understand the detrition of the perfect reality in which Nora lives by. As a set or lighting designer, I would want the audience to experience a tense, chilling and abrupt atmosphere that illuminates the distorted reality, which is being broken slowly. As women during the late 1800’s where not meant to become involved with the dealings of money and business – it was the man’s job. By doing this Nora has brought on a sense of shame and disgrace to her family, as Helmer is lead to believe by the influence of society that he can no longer control his wife. In Act 1, Ibsen indicates to the set and lighting designers how he wishes the play to be set up. From the stage directions I am able to understand that the atmosphere within the opening scene of the play should be ‘comfortable and tasteful’ but ‘not expensively furnished’, allowing the audience to be welcomed to the play. By not ‘expensively’ furnishing the set, the audience understand the previous finical difficulties the family have been though, and can now see their gain in money by certain items. Backstage right a soft wooden oak door leads to a hallway, and backstage left another soft oak door with stairs leading up to Helmers study....
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