Connecting with thoughts - My thoughts and Me

The ability to enchant the audience with your presentation skills still remains a big challenge. Even after numerous books and countless courses speakers still fail to engage their audience. It is not that they lack knowledge or understanding of the subject. In fact, the knowledge they posses is unparalleled. Throw them a question and they will answer. Put them in a situation where a solution is nowhere in sight and they will solve it with ease. Don't know what's the future is going to be like, ask them and they will predict trends that not only will enhance your understanding of the subject in question but also prepare you for the same. But...when it comes to communicating and disseminating the same through presentation or a public speaking engagement they struggle. They may not be prepared one might say but they are. Thoroughly, in fact. Then what ails a presentation? Why is it that death by presentation is still so common? As I said before there have been a thous

Two incidents. Two students. Two different batches. Different organizations. One quest - search for a job. One common result - denied. Reasons for denial - Gender - Female. Problem - Marriage. Bitter as it may sound, but its harsh truth. If you are a woman about to get married or a married woman searching for her first job, then you are in for trouble. For jobs don't come easy. In the first case, the student had in fact joined an organization and it was her first day at work. During the course of her interaction with her new colleagues, she casually happened to state that her family may now possibly start thinking of getting her married within next six months. The heavens fell. Disaster struck. That was her first and last day with that organization. She was asked to quit. Would this have been the same reaction if she was a boy? Would he have been asked to quit his job too? The second case is of a student who has been a consistent performe