TIME MANAGEMENT: BETTER LEARN THAN SUFFER

Time management is the most important task that you need to work out properly during university life. If you are among the students getting stressed up of your high school life, then you probably have to think again to adjust in university life.

Time management in university is something that you can learn with time and not innate. You will eventually be able to learn appropriate time management. This will help you in getting through your university life contentedly with better chances of prevalence and exceeding in your grades. As a university student, you constantly have to juggle and balance yourself in between competing activities, extra-curricular activities, part time work, family, friends and different other things. This may seem paramount task to achieve at first but with the passage of time and little concentration you will be able to manage them all properly.

Honing these skills can be done while following certain practices. Try to note down your daily schedule and keeping records of all day activities. Keeping record of your daily schedule and activities for initial 3 to 4 months will allow you to build a strong and proper time management habit. Creating your priorities list with clear goals is another important goal that you should be in practice regularly. Checklists can be used aiding you through appraising your priorities at regular interval. Procrastinating can also be avoided through regular checklists. Preparing a daily planner is another practice that can help you construct proper time management habit.

Lastly, you should yourself be prepared for the forthcoming challenges of university life. Try to maintain balance in between all things that you have to come across during university life. Always go for things that are more productive and at upper priority level. Learn to negate/decline invitations putting you in conceding position. Acquiring friends and family help can also do a world of good in maintaining your time during your university life. Try to have healthy and gaining relationship with them, as the tedious but tremendous university life can be enjoyed best when time is utilized to its zenith.

Strengthen the Impact of Your Speech

University life is not just about reading and memorizing course books and giving exams. Presentations and Seminars are equally imperative if not more, for a successful career. This blog is armed with the fundamentals of presenting in the most inspiring manner. Does standing on the podium assertively and presenting with the help of vibrant and well-organized visual aids are the only two criteria considered for rating a presenter?

One should focus on the following 7 aspects vital for putting in order and delivering persuasive presentations:

THE ORATOR: The source of the message is the Orator. Presenters work so hard in preparing their visual aids but forget that those visuals are just aids to their presentation.

THE MESSAGE: Everything that an Orator says or does is considered his message. A presenter should focus on the content, style and structure of the message because it is his or her responsibility to get across what the audience wants to hear.

THE AUDIENCE: All listeners are the audience. They are analyzed on the basis of their age, gender, marital status, geographic location, education and career. A multi-page questionnaire is a big help to gather information about them. Proper audience analysis ensures right speech to the right audience.

THE CHANNEL: This refers to the channels of communication including non-verbal, pictorial and aural. Enhanced results are achieved when many channels of communication are used.

THE FEEDBACK: It is the process through with the speakers gets to know how his or her message has been perceived by the audience and then responds to his or her listeners’ reactions.

THE NOISE: There are two types of noise:

External noise: Talking, coughing, shifting patterns, poor acoustics, temperature (too warm, too cold), poor ventilation, and visual interference such as poor lighting, or an obstructed view.

Internal noise: Noise can crop up if the orator doesn’t discern the audience or if the orator is perplexed or vague about what he or she wants to put across. Repeating and restating, and usage of both verbal and non-verbal channels of communication help combat noise.

THE SETTING: It is the PLACE where the presentation is made. Find out ahead of time what the amenities are. This leads to a properly planned delivery taking care of the essentials.

An effective speaker will convey his or her thoughts in a clear, concise and powerful way by dealing with all these 7 aspects at the same time.

University Life - Duty and Dignity!!

The memories and experiences gathered and pooled in university life is something that is reminisced and applauded whole life long of a person. There is just so much to learn, experience, merriment and relish in university. Extra-curricular activities are something that has as much importance as curricular activities and no time in life is better than university life to appreciate and experience the importance of those extra-curricular activities.

Once in university you will taste the freedom at its zenith, of course with a sense of duty and dignity. Each and every instant spent in university weather during studies or in extra-curricular activities or practical experiencing gives so whole new world of acquaintance and self-reliance so crucial for the upcoming life. Another thing to remember and cheer about university life is your friends. From night studies to group gathering in cafeteria; without a doubt the friends and circles you gathered during your university life would be forever with you.