The training of youth in different spheres of socio-professional life possesses the pivotal point in the future building of a nation and a society.
Blinck held an exclusive session led by Sidra Iqbal, titled ‘Public Speaking and Confidence Building Workshop’, on Monday at the Royale Rodale club.
With over 100 young participants, facilitated personally by Iqbal, Blinck initiated its youth development agenda with an interactive session designed to improve upon the participants’ verbal articulation, self confidence and public communication.
The overwhelming response from the public, with only two weeks of pre-event hype, rendered expanding the number of seat available necessary. The participants were enthusiastic and with the expert facilitation, the workshop was conducted amid a positively charged environment. The interactive and fun-filled activities were designed to ensure continued attention and assimilation of various important communication and self-confidence tips and techniques. This positive initiative is applauded, given that public speaking is one of the most common prevalent phobias and the skill itself is vital for multiple reasons including giving a person valuable visibility in the organisation, an important factor in getting ahead.
Participants were awarded personalised certificates of training and participation, signed by Iqbal. This was also an important networking opportunity, for participants, finding people with a common agenda. Further, handouts with the workshop relevant content were also distributed to the participants.
Iqbal is a celebrated public speaker and youth icon of Pakistan, accredited with many esteemed accolades in the fields of youth-activism and television media. She is the first and the only Pakistani to win the English Speaking Union’s International Public Speaking Championship in London, UK in 1999, among participants from over 48 countries. This summer, she also became the first Pakistani to be invited as a judge to the same esteemed international pavilion, the ESU IPSC 2011.
Sidra is also a prominent television anchorperson in Pakistan and has a number of signature shows and momentous interviews to her credit.
The concluding session of the workshop included a sumptuous high-tea and question-answer session. Keeping in mind the event’s success, Blinck aims to conduct similar workshops in Lahore and Islamabad, to reach the maximum students and talented and ambitious young people of the country.
