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Yesterday, the boss said that you have been working on a certain function for a long time. You can give a demo to your colleagues and talk about what you have done, what the progress is, and what the results are.
I’m very busy with my job, and I wanted to muddle through. So I still prepared PPT, organized the outline according to the pyramid principle, and rehearsed several times.
- background
- question
- Our solutions
- business value gained
After the meeting, my colleagues gave me very good feedback, saying that I have made great progress, told a good story, and my English is also very fluent. (Actually, he didn’t know that I rehearsed twice in advance.)
This led me to review my approach to public speaking.
The American character is straight-forward, if he did 80, he would definitely say 80 and not pretend to be humble. But Chinese people are introverted. If he scores 80 points, he will say, “It’s not that good. If you win the prize, it’s only 60 points.”
Therefore, in an international company, Chinese employees tend to “leave their clothes behind and hide their merits and fame”. Once there is a public speech, psychologically, the speech will be regarded as an extra burden, “wasting time” and “delaying one’s work”.
But the company is so big and has a lot of business, colleagues don’t know each other at all, and the boss doesn’t know every employee. Public speaking is a great opportunity to sell yourself and your team.
- Let the boss know the ins and outs of things, why we do it, what our output is.
- You can take this opportunity to praise the team members. Those hard-working programmers deserve to be praised again and again. They are the real heroes behind the scenes.
In the future, when it comes to speaking, I can be a little thicker-skinned. Speak more, collect feedback, improve. Pay attention to how good people organize meetings, how they praise others, and how they manage their time politely. It doesn’t matter if you screw it up, I’m just a little guy, I need a bit of Ah Q spirit.
Note
This article is written for low-key and hard-working employees. Employees who are usually lazy but are good at grandstanding are not among the target readers.
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