This Wednesday, Dyane lead us through the “gold mine” of Mercury. Presiyan Vasilev, the winner of the World Public Speaking Championship 2013 in which three thousand people from 112 countries participated, said, that he joined 6 clubs, he gave and received evaluations, evaluations, evaluations. Under this “motto”, Dyane explained the Mercury evaluation form:
Mercury Evaluation Form
What was the core message of the speech?
The 6 elements of a great speech:
Simple: Is the speech easy to follow?
Unexpected: Did the speaker succeed in awakening us? The brain goes in standby mode unless something unexpected is explained/shown …
Concrete: Did the speaker use concrete language? The more abstract the language people use, the more difficult it is for the audience to grasp the words.
Credible: Did the speaker establish credibility? (ethos)
Emotion: Did the speaker touch the heart of the audience? (pathos)
Story: Did the speaker use story to illustrate his/her point?
What are the 3 areas of improvement?
What are the 3 strengths that the speaker has? Mercury believes in positive psychology and in the potential of everyone!
Dyane finished her explanation with a quote from Maya Angelou “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.“.
Mari gave us a demonstration talk about how to make a paper crane. She began the speech with the story of the two-year-old girl Sadako Sasaki. Sadako lived close to Hiroshima on the day of 6th of August 2014, the day when the atomic bomb was dropped. Although at the beginning she didn’t give signs that she would be sick, after some years she was diagnosed with leukemia and given, at most, a year to live… She started making paper cranes with the hope of making 1000 of them in order to be cured by the gods (according to a Japanese legend). She didn’t manage to create one thousand, as her disease got worse and she died at the age of 12. Mari encouraged us to join her prayer and make paper origami. “Shall we?” The audience loved her wonderful speech and demonstration; we made cranes together with her. Congratulation Mari for an amazing speech!
Crane created during the demonstration
Matthias B. delivered a Talk show presentation about politics and economics. The speech was set in a radio talk show and Matthias was the representative of the fictive company BWI. In this speech, he encouraged young people to seek opportunities in the public sector. Young people with a lot of new ideas were encouraged to work in the public sector.
Word of the day: literally, which describes something that actually happened. It is often confused with metaphorically, symbolic or figuratively.
Wrong use: During the board meeting, she told a joke. I literally pissed myself. -> This is figurative.
Good use: I literally love cheesecake. And literally nobody used the word of the day in his speech 😉
Lesson learned: Be grateful to have been born in a peaceful environment.
