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Updated on 24 july 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Winning Way With Words
Brush up your oratorical skills with techniques United States president Barack Obama uses to captivate audiences
BEFORE first time US Senator Barack Obama delivered his mesmerising keynote address at the Democratic Convention in July 2004, the 42-year-old Harvard graduate was virtually unknown.
Four years later, despite of his lack of executive experience and his African-American heritage, he was elected the United States of America's 44th president.
Apart from his formidable intellect, the cornerstone of his success was undoubtedly his oratorical skill, a gift he shares with other charismatic speakers like Winston Churchill and John F Kennedy.
Why makes Obama so charismatic? Why did American vote for him? Here is a summary of the key elements of his public speaking techniques, which you can emulate to enrich your presentations:
1. Give people hope
When your is audience facing adversity - financial turmoil, retrenchment, home foreclosures - lift their hopes. Acknowledge the situation and remind them of reasons to be optimistic.
In his inaugural address, President Obama inspired American to choose "hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord". Acknowledging the huge challenges facing them, such the war in Iraq and the worst recession since the Great Depression, he told Americans: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America".
2. Project yourself as the winner
Even though you are facing difficulties, act with confidence that you will overcome the bad times. Project yourself as positive and healthy.
After his defeat in New Hampshire primaries, Obama delivered a speech full of optimism that would rally his supporters. He said: "We know the battle ahead will be along. But always remember, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in way of power of millions of voices calling for change...there has never been anything false about hope."
3. Use rich imagery
Help your audience to create mental pictures through your words. Employ all the five senses - visual, auditory, kinethetic, oldfactory (smell), gustatory (taste). Civil right leader Dr Martin Luther King was a master of this technique.
In 2004, Obama painted a picture of what he meant the audacity of hope: "It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs, the hope of immigrant setting out for distant shores, the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta, the hope of a mill-worker's son who dares to defy the odds, the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too."
4. Use figurative language
A metaphor is an imaginative way of assigning new meaning of things. During the Cold War, to highlight the spread of Communism, Winston Churchill described Russia as the Iron Curtain. When China fell to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, it became the Bamboo Curtain.
President Obama suggested that the US would be prepared to extend a hand of peace to one of its opponents if it "unclenched its fist".
5. Employ contrast
When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on the July 1, 1969, he declared: "One small step for man, one giant leap for manking". The juxtaposition of these contrasting images emphasized the lunar mission's great technological achievement.
At his last rally at Manassas in Virginia on November 3, 2008, the night before the election, Obama stressed to voters that a better future was in their hands. He said: "Tomorrow you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, create new job and grow this economy so that everybody has a chance to succeed. Not just the CEO but the secretary and the janitors, not just the factory owner but the men and women who work the factory floor."
His message resonated with the Americans and won him the White House.
Souce: ST'ANN - Article by Michael Lum, PMP, master trainer and licensed American Board of NLP and hyonotherapy coach. The Star 28 June 2010
BEFORE first time US Senator Barack Obama delivered his mesmerising keynote address at the Democratic Convention in July 2004, the 42-year-old Harvard graduate was virtually unknown.
Four years later, despite of his lack of executive experience and his African-American heritage, he was elected the United States of America's 44th president.
Apart from his formidable intellect, the cornerstone of his success was undoubtedly his oratorical skill, a gift he shares with other charismatic speakers like Winston Churchill and John F Kennedy.
Why makes Obama so charismatic? Why did American vote for him? Here is a summary of the key elements of his public speaking techniques, which you can emulate to enrich your presentations:
1. Give people hope
When your is audience facing adversity - financial turmoil, retrenchment, home foreclosures - lift their hopes. Acknowledge the situation and remind them of reasons to be optimistic.
In his inaugural address, President Obama inspired American to choose "hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord". Acknowledging the huge challenges facing them, such the war in Iraq and the worst recession since the Great Depression, he told Americans: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America".
2. Project yourself as the winner
Even though you are facing difficulties, act with confidence that you will overcome the bad times. Project yourself as positive and healthy.
After his defeat in New Hampshire primaries, Obama delivered a speech full of optimism that would rally his supporters. He said: "We know the battle ahead will be along. But always remember, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in way of power of millions of voices calling for change...there has never been anything false about hope."
3. Use rich imagery
Help your audience to create mental pictures through your words. Employ all the five senses - visual, auditory, kinethetic, oldfactory (smell), gustatory (taste). Civil right leader Dr Martin Luther King was a master of this technique.
In 2004, Obama painted a picture of what he meant the audacity of hope: "It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs, the hope of immigrant setting out for distant shores, the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta, the hope of a mill-worker's son who dares to defy the odds, the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too."
4. Use figurative language
A metaphor is an imaginative way of assigning new meaning of things. During the Cold War, to highlight the spread of Communism, Winston Churchill described Russia as the Iron Curtain. When China fell to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, it became the Bamboo Curtain.
President Obama suggested that the US would be prepared to extend a hand of peace to one of its opponents if it "unclenched its fist".
5. Employ contrast
When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on the July 1, 1969, he declared: "One small step for man, one giant leap for manking". The juxtaposition of these contrasting images emphasized the lunar mission's great technological achievement.
At his last rally at Manassas in Virginia on November 3, 2008, the night before the election, Obama stressed to voters that a better future was in their hands. He said: "Tomorrow you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, create new job and grow this economy so that everybody has a chance to succeed. Not just the CEO but the secretary and the janitors, not just the factory owner but the men and women who work the factory floor."
His message resonated with the Americans and won him the White House.
Souce: ST'ANN - Article by Michael Lum, PMP, master trainer and licensed American Board of NLP and hyonotherapy coach. The Star 28 June 2010
Monday, August 24, 2009
Power to Your People
If you are a good manager, I am sure you think you are pretty good at your job. Some managers seem to think that they should know everything about the jobs that their team members do, and be better than them at doing it.
I can remember, in the past, working for managers like that. They gave the impression that they knew everything and were far better than I would ever be at doing my job. This, of course, did not motivate me at all.
The motivatinal manager accepts that members of his staff may be better at doing the job than he is. His staff may be better salesmen, better at customer service, better administrators or better engineers.
I have had salesmen working for me who were better at selling than I was. However, that did not make me less of a good manager.
Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of probably the world's most successful football club, Manchester United, had a pretty undistinguished career as a footballer. He did not at one time play for the Glasgow Rangers but could hardly be described as a star footballer. He is now, of course, a star manager.
If you manage or supervise other people, have confidence in yourself. Accept your limitations and do not feel bad if you do not initially know the answer to every question.
Ironically, your staff will not be more motivated if you come up with the answers to all of their problems or queries. Encourage your staff to come to you with solutions, not problems.
If you spend your time solving their problems, you will spend all your time solving problems.
When someone in your team asks you what he should do, even you know the answer, reflect back the question. Ask him what he would do. Ask him for his opinions. For example, what does he think is the best course of action, and why he think it is the best? What are the consequences of this action, for the customer, and the business and the team member himself?
When he gives you his answers, empower, support and congratulate him on them. If he feels that he has made the decision, he will have more confidence in himself and be more motivated to do his job even better.
What you are essentially doing here is utilising the knowledge, skill, experience and motivational power that is already withing your team members. Once you leverage on this, you will have a highly motivated team who respect and trust you as their manager. - Source: ST/ANN
Articel by Alan Fairweather, an associate consultant with d'Oz International.: The Star 22 August 2009
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Hasil Tanaman Saya
Petik 4 Ogos 2008 yang lalu. tomato makan gitu je, manis.... Kacang botol bagi kat jiran sebelah kak roy. tak larat nak makan dah. Terung pun isteri bagi kat kawan dia kak aini...
Sedia untuk makan malam..selamat 3-4 ringgit untuk buah, sayur dan ulam...emmm sedapnya..
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Kitaran Sawi Bunga, Bayam dan Kangkung
Hari ini genaplah umur sayur 33 hari atau 1 bulan 3 hari. Empat hari lepas dah petik sikit buat sayur dalam mihun sup. Sejak 2 - 3 hari ni, hujan lebat yang turun menyebabkan daun-daun sawi jadi koyak dan lebam...
Persembahkan...gambar-gambar sayur saya yang sudah boleh dipetik...he.he.he..gambar pada 23 Ogos 2008
Persembahkan...gambar-gambar sayur saya yang sudah boleh dipetik...he.he.he..gambar pada 23 Ogos 2008
Umur 19 hari - 9 Ogos 2008. Semalam Olimpik Beijing 08.08.08!!!
Alih masuk ke dalam pasu sikit....
Bayam dialih ke bekas baru yang dibeli kat Giant RM34.99 pada 7 Ogos 2008.
Gambar umur 6 hari - 26 Julai 2008
Alih masuk ke dalam pasu sikit....
Bayam dialih ke bekas baru yang dibeli kat Giant RM34.99 pada 7 Ogos 2008.
Gambar umur 6 hari - 26 Julai 2008
Mula semai biji benih pada 20 Julai 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Kebun Saya - 1
Antara minat saya yang paling utama ialah berkebun". Dengan adanya lebihan tanah di belakang rumah lebih kurang 18' x 15', saya mula menanam beberapa ulam-ulaman, sayur-sayuran dan pokok buah-buahan. Antaranya ialah:-
Buah-buahan - pisang, betik, ubi kayu, limau purut, limau kasturi, buah naga.
Ulam-ulaman - raja, pegaga, pudina, kacang botol, selom, kemangi, kesum, maman, kadok, duri tujuh.
Sayur-sayuran - cili, terung, bendi, bayam, sawi bunga, cili, kangkung, tomato.
Rempah - lengkuas, kunyit, halia, pandan, serai.
Dengan sukacitanya saya ingin berkongsi gambar pokok-pokok tanaman saya untuk tatapan anda semua....selamat menikmati gambar-gambar yang segar!!!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Analisa Saham 17 Julai 2008
Last night Dow was up 276 points thanks to a drop in oil prices and also better than expected report from Wells Fargo bank. Our market as expected bounced 6 points in the morning but not expected to last.
Oil was steady at USD134.90 Thursday in Asia after plummeting more than $10 a barrel in the previous two sessions as evidence mounted that record prices are slowing U.S. demand.
At mid day, Hong Kong was up 545 points(2.57%) , Japan's Nikkei up 122.32 points(0.96%) and Singapore up by 44.2 points (1.56%)
News of Anwar Ibrahim's arrest yesterday would keep investors on the sidelines.
Strategy-wise, investors should trim positions on rebounds as we are still in bearish mode. One should not be a hero and trade against the major trend.
For short term trading, can still focus on Gamuda. Buy on retracement to 2.35 level. News of major Middle East buyer will keep prices steady.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Singapura setaraf Israel?
Oleh AZMI HASSAN
BERITA mengenai niat negara jiran Malaysia iaitu Singapura yang bakal membuat perolehan sehingga 100 pesawat pejuang F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) mengundang berbagai andaian bukan sahaja dari kalangan ahli politik dan profesional tetapi juga dari orang ramai.
Reaksi sebegini tidak menghairankan kerana apa sahaja berita mengenai keupayaan ketenteraan Singapura sudah pasti akan menarik perhatian rakyat Malaysia.
Tetapi berita mengenai F-35 adalah begitu istimewa bukan sahaja kerana pesawat pejuang ini adalah paling canggih pernah dibangunkan tetapi juga jumlah sehingga 100 buah telah mengundang berbagai spekulasi mengenai tujuan sebenar Singapura.
Perlu diambil perhatian walaupun Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM) pada ketika ini dianggap sebagai kuasa udara yang dominan di kalangan negara ASEAN kerana Sukhoi SU-30 milik mereka, tetapi kehadiran F-35 tidak lama lagi akan mengubah senario penguasaan pertahanan udara.
Tidak keterlaluan jika diandaikan negara yang memiliki F-35 akan melonjak sehingga 30 tahun kehadapan dalam hal ehwal penguasaan ruang udara.
Panglima TUDM, Jeneral Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin, dalam reaksi balas terhadap berita perolehan F-35 menyatakan cadangan Tentera Udara Republik Singapura (RSAF) merupakan amalan biasa sesebuah negara dalam memodenkan angkatan tenteranya dan ia tidak perlu dibimbangi.
"Saya tidak terkejut dengan berita tersebut. Itu merupakan program pemodenan tentera mereka dalam jangka masa panjang," tambah beliau.
Sememangnya berita mengenai F-35 Singapura tidak mengejutkan kerana niat tersebut telah pun diketahui semenjak tahun 2003 lagi ketika mereka menyertai projek pembangunan F-35 dalam kategori Penyertaan Kerjasama Keselamatan (SCP).
Terdapat empat tahap penyertaan program F-35 iaitu Tahap 1,2,3 dan SCP yang memerlukan sumbangan kewangan yang berbeza bagi setiap tahap.
Penyertaan Tahap 1 umpamanya yang hanya dimiliki oleh United Kingdom memerlukan sumbangan sehingga AS$2 bilion sementara tahap terendah SCP telah menyaksikan Singapura dan Israel memberi sumbangan sehingga AS$50 juta kepada projek pembangunan F-35. Perlu diambil perhatian bahawa sumbangan penyertaan tidak termasuk kos perolehan pesawat pejuang tersebut.
SumbanganBukan semua negara mempunyai keistimewaan untuk turut serta dalam pembangunan F-35 kerana ia adalah atas dasar jemputan Amerika Syarikat sahaja. Setakat hari ini terdapat hanya 10 negara yang turut sama dalam projek F-35 iaitu Tahap 1 (United Kingdom), Tahap 2 (Itali dan Belanda), Tahap 3 (Australia, Kanada, Denmark, Norway dan Turki) dan SCP (Singapura dan Israel).
AS membenarkan penyertaan negara lain kerana sumbangan yang diberi dapat menampung kos pembangunan F-35 kerana peruntukan yang disediakan oleh Kongres AS adalah begitu terhad sekali.
Manakala negara yang menyertai program tersebut dibenarkan berkongsi penyertaan industri yang menjerumus kepada imbuhan bentuk ekonomi. Penyertaan UK umpamanya turut serta menguntungkan industri pertahanan mereka kerana beberapa bahagian teknologi F-35 dibangunkan oleh industri negara tersebut.
Begitu juga penyertaan Singapura dan Israel walaupun pada tahap terendah SCP telah sedikit sebanyak memberi nafas kepada industri pertahanan mereka selain dari mendapat keistimewaan membuat perolehan F-35.
Tetapi apa yang paling penting mengenai penyertaan 10 negara tersebut dalam pembangunan F-35 adalah mereka mempunyai suara untuk menentukan ciri-ciri F-35 yang bakal dimiliki.
Seperti mana sistem avionik Sukhoi SU-30 milik Malaysia diubahsuai menggunakan teknologi Perancis, F-35 Singapura juga besar kemungkinan diubah suai mengikut keperluan RSAF.
Memang benar perolehan F-35 RSAF tidak memeranjatkan walaupun pesawat pejuang tersebut jauh lebih hebat daripada Sukhoi SU-30 TUDM. Tetapi apa yang mengejutkan adalah jumlah 100 buah yang bakal dibuat kerana ia mengundang berbagai spekulasi.
Ketika Singapura menyertai program tersebut pada tahun 2003, jumlah bakal perolehan yang dinyatakan hanya 24 buah sahaja, iaitu satu angka yang masih dianggap munasabah walaupun dibandingkan dengan 18 Sukhoi SU-30 yang bakal dimiliki oleh TUDM.
Israel umpamanya yang sama-sama berada dalam kumpulan SCP seperti Singapura, juga diberitakan akan membuat perolehan sebanyak 100 pesawat F-35 dan ini sebenarnya tidak mengejutkan kerana rejim tersebut sentiasa berada dalam keadaan konflik dengan jiran Asia Barat mereka.
Tidak munasabahnya perolehan 100 F-35 oleh Singapura dapat difahami dengan jelas menggunakan anologi nisbah pemilikan F-16 antara Singapura dan Israel.
RSAF adalah satu-satunya organisasi angkatan tentera udara yang mempunyai nisbah jumlah pesawat pejuang berbanding dengan keluasan kawasan operasi yang paling tinggi.
Malah nilai nisbah tersebut melampaui pesawat pejuang yang dimiliki oleh tentera udara Israel (IAF). Ambil contoh jumlah jet pejuang F-16 yang dimiliki oleh RSAF.
Setakat ini mereka mempunyai sebanyak 38 buah jet pejuang F-16 yang bersamaan dengan satu jet pejuang untuk mengawal setiap 55km persegi jika jarak operasi F-16 ialah 1,000km.
IAF, secara perbandingan hanya mempunyai satu jet pejuang F-16 untuk setiap 80 km persegi negara tersebut. Jika ditambah jumlah F-15 yang dimiliki oleh RSAF, besar kemungkinan RSAF jauh lebih hebat dari IAF.
Apakah rakyat Malaysia perlu gusar dengan kehadiran 100 F-35 di ruang udara ASEAN adalah satu perkara yang menarik untuk dibahaskan.
Tetapi apa yang paling penting adalah pihak yang bertanggung jawab mengenai pertahanan negara sentiasa peka dengan keadaan sekeliling dan dalam kes ini sudah pasti rakyat Malaysia menaruh seluruh kepercayaan kepada kewibawaan TUDM. -- Utusan Malaysia Online
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