MY TRUE STORY ON COMMUNICATION

Communication Experience in Life

There are many experiences in life. Today I will be sharing the communication experiene. In 2002, I took up ICICI Prudential Life Insurance course to become an Insurance agent. It was about 15 day’s full day course. We had trainers to teach on Insurance subject. There were different trainers for different topics. In my batch we had 20 people with good background like Bank managers, MBA, Business men, working employees, Home maker and many more. All the trainers were ex employees of Life Insurance Corporation. They were well educated and well experienced men and had excellent talent, knowledge and skill to train others.

One among the trainer was Mr.Clifford Martis; he was an amazing trainer who trained his subjects. In one of the class his topic was to train on general skills like Communication, Talent, Motivation, and Passion. He picked up four students and gave each one of them the topic. We were supposed to give the speech on the given topic for 5 minutes. My topic was Communication. This teacher always felt that home maker come to class just by husbands force and not with interest and I was one among home maker group. He criticised me every time but I ignored as usual.

It was the speech day. The speech was in the afternoon after the lunch. Seatings were arranged in semi circle shape. We all were seated. My turn was suppose to be in the end as per the trainer. But he changed the schedule spontaneously and called my name to give speech. I wasn’t surprised because he was always upto something. The trainer asked me to stand where normally he stands to train and he sat.

Everybody was settling down. I looked at everybody’s eyes. All were yawning, giggling, passing comments, absolutely everybody were not comfortable and their body language confirmed me they were not interested.

First thing I asked was Mr. Martis Shall I start. He said yes. I began to say “Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. I thank Mr.Maris to give me an opportunity to give a speech on Communication.

To my surprise the class was pin drop silent. Paused for a while I introduced myself with my background paused and again started with main topic Communication that Communication is to commute (speak or express verbally) to others. It has been categorised in 3 ways and has different tone levels and so on…. Points I spoke is given on Nature of Communication blog.

I was given 5 minutes for the speech. But the speech on Communication went on for 10 minutes. Everybody was interested including the trainer. Before ending the speech, I thanked once again the trainer for the opportunity given and requested him to give permission for another 10 minutes for one important game where the trainer also had to participate. Everybody participated in that game and applauded.

After I finished the session Mr.Martis in front of all other students said that, “You gave an EXCELLENT speech. I under estimated you, I was wrong . You have a very good inborn quality communication skill. I Thanked him for his sincere appreciation.

To get a sincere appreciation from Mr.Martis is not easy as he is an Intelligent, well experienced and always tough trainer in class. He wanted his students to excel in practical. My sincere thanks to him because I never took his criticis in negative way at all. I always took his critics in positive, improved and performed well.

FACE VALUES ALWAYS GO WRONG BUT COMMUNICATION AND BODY LANGUAGE ARE THE TWO ATTRIBUTES WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT AT EVERY STEP OF OUR LIFE AS THIS GIVES THE FIRST IMPRESSION OF A PERSON. FIRST IMPRESSION IS THE BEST IMPRESSION.