As a trainer, I will speak in my training room or other person's room. Clearly, if I train in the room, my rule will be applied. This means to introduce yourselves to participants using templates. What happens when talking in another person's room? The event organizer is expected to have a master of a ceremony ("MC") to introduce speakers to me. Here is the deal. Event organizer does not have my own template. How do I want to be introduced?
I will ask you some questions. Before that, you read how many people are not only watching the audience, but also the biography of the speaker with a simple tone. How many people know that some event organizers contact their speakers and do not mind even knowing how to introduce them? And, how many of you interviewed before MC tells the speaker's name incorrectly?
In fact, how speakers are introduced into the event can have a big impact on his session. There is a voice that the speaker's proper introduction by the event organizer can give prestige and set the tone of the session. How many of you do you know what I am talking about?
As a precautionary measure, whenever I am invited by the event organizer, I will discuss with the event representative how I would like to introduce it. In essence, make sure that your "template" is given to the person in charge and clarify that the template must be strictly obeyed. Experience is most of the time, the event organizer I am cooperating told me that my proposal is okay. I think that I really depend on my work relationship with them.
How does the template look? Due to space constraints, I can not list all the points here. Instead, I will emphasize some important items of this article for your reference:
1. My name
From my experience, this is a difficult problem for Singapore and Hong Kong speakers. In my case, there are 5 ways to deal with me in fact. I would like to be introduced as "Jack Wong" rather than "Jack Wong", "Wong Hing Man Jack", "Jack Hen Man Wong", or "Jack Wong Hin Man" thinking about. It may seem obvious and trivial, but I always expect something unexpected.
2. My academic background and employment history
I am asking MC to use two sentences each to describe the academic and professional background. For example, here is the way I want to deal with my educational background:
"Jack read the law and accounting at Murdoch University in Australia, a Master of Business Administration from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a Master of Laws degree from the National University of Singapore.
My point is to keep it short and simple. One or two sentences are fine.
3. Do not add unnecessary things to the intrusion.
I do not know about you, but I do not want to say to the MC "This speaker does not require any further introduction" or "You know this speaker." If this is truly fact, there is no need for someone to introduce me first. Do you have a meaning?
4. Only describe the title of the topic
I think that MC tells only the title of the topic and leaves the rest for processing. I always think that I should explain why audiences listen to me and why they are qualified to talk about that topic. MC does not support my credibility. However, there are exceptions to this. This is when MC is my leader or my teacher. In such a case, what he says will help me to improve my credibility of the topic I'd like to talk about.
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