How to make group discussions?

April 11th, 2010 admin

Group dis­cus­sion is one of the best ways in devel­op­ing your lan­guage skills. Espe­cially for devel­op­ing speak­ing skills of Eng­lish, group dis­cus­sion helps very much. Group dis­cus­sion helps very much use­ful in effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the peo­ple and if you are work­ing in a busi­ness envi­ron­ment then this skill is com­pul­sory in tak­ing the best deci­sions. Now a days this became one of the cru­cial part in get­ting a job. So let’s know some impor­tant points that help you in mak­ing pro­fes­sional group discussion.

There are cer­tain spe­cific para­me­ters on which the eval­u­a­tion takes place. They are:

  1. Con­tent
  2. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion
  3. Group behav­ior
  4. Lead­er­ship skills

Let us look at each issue separately.

Con­tent:

Usu­ally the eval­u­a­tor will look at the level of our con­tent with the sub­ject or with the topic. It shows how well-read you are. Eval­u­a­tor will look at all your men-management skills, etc. will be of no use in an orga­ni­za­tion unless you are sound on sub­ject and knowl­edge. That is the rea­son for con­tent to become such an impor­tant aspect of the eval­u­a­tion process. It is very impor­tant for you to clearly dis­play your under­stand­ing of the issues per­tain­ing to the topic. The more valid points you make, the more marks you score.

The eval­u­a­tor expects that you should be able to add the over­all knowl­edge level of the group as a whole on account of the con­tri­bu­tions you make out of your knowl­edge bank. The group should gain from its inter­ac­tion with you because of what you have to con­tribute. It is very impor­tant for any can­di­date to under­stand that he\she has to come across as knowl­edge­able and well-read. Do not miss any oppor­tu­nity what­so­ever to exhibit your knowl­edge per­tains to the “what to say” aspect of the group discussion.

group dis­cus­sion

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion:

If the con­tent aspect cov­ers “what to say” in a group dis­cus­sion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion per­tains to “how to say it”. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion cov­ers what you want to say

  1. Cor­rectly con­vey­ing what you want to say
  2. Listening
  3. Lan­guage

The first aspect is to how you say what you want to say. A num­ber of times, we find that the lis­tener “under­stands” what we were say­ing very dif­fer­ently from what we are intended to con­vey. This only means that we have not been able to put across our ideas prop­erly and cor­rectly. There is a lot of scope for such com­mu­ni­ca­tion gaps in any com­mu­ni­ca­tion sit­u­a­tion. It is the respon­si­bil­ity of the speaker  to ensure that what he/she has been com­mu­ni­cated cor­rectly and under­stood the way it was expected to be under­stood. This aspect of com­mu­ni­ca­tion also includes your thought process and show­cases how you put your ideas.

Your com­mu­ni­ca­tion should be very effec­tive and it should con­vey the mes­sage that you are intended to con­vey. Your com­mu­ni­ca­tion should also be effi­cient. You should make your opin­ion or point in as few words as pos­si­ble. If you take too long to get to the point, some­one else would have started speak­ing before you can make your point.

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How to Write Poetry? (Part II)

April 10th, 2010 shylock

In the pre­vi­ous post, we looked at var­i­ous ways to get started with poetry. We looked at express­ing our feel­ings, our senses effec­tively. Now we would look at few things which can prove to be extremely important.

Read Poetry:

Read­ing poetry is con­sid­ered one of the vital ingre­di­ents to writ­ing poetry. It not only gives you the strength of vocab­u­lary but also it gives you the strength of pow­er­ful imagery. Using metaphors effec­tively is one of the para­me­ters which dis­tin­guish a good poem from a nor­mal one. Ini­tially when you read great work you tend to get over­pow­ered by their style and their words. Some­times you would tend to lend their style. Watch out against this. Remem­ber they too must have started from square one. It’s their gift of vision that sep­a­rated them from oth­ers. Let me remind you again that hav­ing an absolutely first class, orig­i­nal vision help when it comes to words.

Walk away from drudgery:

Walk Away From Drudgery

You need to allow your­self time and space to come up with ideas. Until you lie down in a sofa and allow your­self a reverie you would not appre­ci­ate all your feel­ings. Each of our senses lives the same feel­ing dif­fer­ently. So if you don’t give time to your­self to indulge with the idea of a spec­tac­u­lar thought, you don’t fully live that moment. You need to move from the present realm of chores and ten­sions to the world of a beau­ti­ful thought. The moment you live each moment fully, you are ready to write poems which every­one else would die to read. Remem­ber the sole idea of poetry is to lift you from your present world and get you to a world of you and yourself.

Write and Share:

Start writ­ing! Start with few words which you already mocked up in your mind. Some­times the poems are not fin­ished in one sit­ting, but keep­ing it for long would also dimin­ish the flu­id­ity of the thought. Choos­ing a topic close to your heart shall help. If the topic is a pain stak­ing expe­ri­ence then you can use third per­son tone to bring about the pain. Do not hes­i­tate to take opin­ion of oth­ers. Remem­ber they always want to hear about someone’s expe­ri­ence which is dif­fer­ent from them. All the opin­ion is con­struc­tive. After the entire step to fur­ther heights stops at all positives.

Happy Poetry!

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How to Write Poetry?

April 9th, 2010 shylock

At some point in time, most of us must come across verses which take our breath away. In these moments we pon­der about the beauty of the writ­ing because it plays with our imag­i­na­tion. How can a small heap of lines play with our mind, tran­scend­ing us sur­re­ally? If you have ever been touched by lines so deeply that they made you think about writ­ing poetry then you might find this post interesting.

Golden Rule:

There is no wrong poetry. There is no absolute advice to poetry. Every poet devel­ops his/her own flair over a period of time.

We will talk of very fun­da­men­tal nuances involved in poetry. I believe, this should help you kick start your jour­ney to infinite­ness, if you have already fid­dled with the idea of poem writing.

Poetry is gen­er­ally imag­i­na­tive writ­ing. It depicts the reflec­tion of reac­tions and emo­tions. Like most other form of writ­ten words, it is not restricted by bound­aries. It still main­tains a slight rigid­ity with respect to the plot, but that is mainly to avert the read­ers from oscil­lat­ing too much with imag­i­na­tions. Stim­u­lat­ing piece of poem writ­ing is honed over time. All you can bring into poetry is your un-blurred vision of a moment. The words would come with time. Remem­ber it always helps to have a first class, orig­i­nal, insight vision of a thought.

Imagination

As you must have realised by now imag­i­na­tion is the foun­da­tion to poetry. If you are look­ing for inspi­ra­tion, you should be look­ing around you. There is no def­i­nite place to find inspi­ra­tion. It strikes you when you are least expect­ing it. But you should be ready to cap­ture it once it strikes you. If you are look­ing to pen down strik­ing notes, you should allow your­self to appre­ci­ate the beauty of an inspiration/imagination. If you let in other tasks to soak you up, the instant of pure magic will always remain clouded. Remem­ber you don’t live the same instance twice. Pen it down, keep a note of it.

Now that we lived the moment we would look at fur­ther steps to process it into a poem. A poem is always an individual’s per­spec­tive. A same scene can appeal to two dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als dif­fer­ently. It is always how it caters to your senses. It is almost guar­an­teed that a par­tic­u­lar thing would appeal to the five senses of dif­fer­ent per­sons dif­fer­ently. Draw strength from the fact that a reader is always eager to know what you felt. So use imagery. Express your feel­ings, not the bor­rowed feelings.

We will look at other ingre­di­ents of poetry in the next post.

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Express Yourself

April 6th, 2010 shylock

When we started this brain child blog of ours, we had envis­aged a world where all of us could co-create/interact with ease. We empha­sized on chan­nels where you could claw back from the abyss of mis­un­der­stood pot­hole. Lan­guage is an expres­sion, reflect­ing our reac­tions. Eng­lish lan­guage is one of the path­ways to stream­line your latent emo­tions to a broader audience.

Some­times to recre­ate the whole micro­cosm of an event train, a pho­to­graph serves our under­stand­ing bet­ter than words.
Photography

Pho­tog­ra­phy records the gamut of feel­ings writ­ten on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inher­ited, and the wealth and con­fu­sion man has cre­ated. It is a major force in explain­ing man to man.~Edward Ste­ichen

A good pho­to­graph almost bor­rows real­ity from the sur­round­ings. Pho­tog­ra­phy schools train you to cap­ture the thought that you have visu­alised. Though many say that a pho­to­graph is as good as your thought but to cap­ture the real­ity into a paper, it needs fine tun­ing of skills by pho­tog­ra­phy schools. Pho­tog­ra­phy schools not only bring out your best but also pro­vide you infi­nite oppor­tu­ni­ties to spring board a career.

We just saw how we can express our­selves through pho­tographs. It is just one form of the art that bring out our thoughts. In gen­eral an art school inspires you to play around with your cre­ativ­ity, self inter­ests by pro­vid­ing you with stim­u­lat­ing chal­lenges to test your skills. The chances start with your own home. Being equipped with skills from the inte­rior design schools can por­tray your home to reflect the gen­eral mood of the house-the gai­ety, the joy.

As you would have noticed by now, there is a vast world of expres­sion beyond lan­guage that con­nects to our senses. Art in its var­i­ous man­i­fes­ta­tions helps us to unravel our latent fronts. Art schools not only nour­ish your fig­ment of imag­i­na­tion but also pro­vide ample career opportunities.

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