RJ - Pause - Think - Respond
Qns: After going through today’s lesson, what concerns do you have about expressing your thoughts in public and how will you address these concerns?
Ans:
I think that when one has to express their thoughts in public, I need to know how other people might feels and how people might think. The media often read in between the words that we say, therefore it is more important that we learn how to speak with the media.
I won’t do any quoting or anything but I will just give my own experience that I have personally gained through AYG 2009. I am given the role to take care of the media and all their queries. It may sound absurd since I am actually a SHL student, DOAL course student, why do I need to handle media queries and not something else? That you would have to ask back the AYG 2009 committee members.
I would say that handling of the media isn’t my cup of tea. But I have to do my given role, so I tried. Using what I have learnt in your lesson, I was able to successfully do my job. Often the media would ask questions that may be very simple to very difficult. For example, they often would ask about the result and ask if they could speak to certain players and many others. We must be alert at all time so that we could reply with precision and taking down the queries in details so as to allow them to be able to get the right information to the public. I have exercise carefulness as I almost fall into a trap that one of the journalists has set.
Therefore it is important to exercise on how one express their thoughts in public and how to address these concern to the media.
The moment your words are interpreted wrongly, anything could happen. They could fault you for giving the wrong info, or they could insist that you said so during the interview or whatsoever and thus bringing trouble into your life. Even though I do not write any report or anything that is related to letter writing but I believe that when I have learn to handle media well, I believe that when penning down thoughts it would be greatly helped.
My Comment:
Hi Ruth, thanks for sharing your thoughts and interesting experience. It is good that you were able to apply what you had learnt in class to the real life and be able to see the relevance of those lessons. Coming back to this, I hope you now fully undertood the merit to pause and think first before responding, and not reacting.
As mentioned before, you have become a passive and quiet student in class over the last few lessons. This was in contrast to the earlier lessons where you were able to participate in class more actively. Just like this week again, the only instances you spoke and share your views were during meeting 2. Other than that, you spoke during your own team presentation. You seemed to be able to participate quite actively in the team, so you should be able to participate more actively in the class discussions, like what you had done in the earlier lessons. Furthermore, for this lesson, you could have spoken up more to share your experience dealing with the media for AYG.
Ruth Yeo Qian Yi @ 7:37 AM
