Confidence is a must

By Erwin Parengkuan

The experience of meeting many successful individuals will add our "flying hours" to become more knowledgeable which of course will make we are more confident.Yesterday I ran a training session with a directorate at the Indonesian Ministry, during the lunch break session, an official opened the session this morning, came over and sat with us for lunch.He told a story about his recent experience in an assessment for promotion, where you have to take part in an interview session about what innovations will be carried out so that “passed” for promotion.The father then asked his son at home currently studying at a prestigious state university in this country, he asked what ideas should be conveyed at the interview later related to innovation.As we know, the Millennial generation very rich in information and they are very technologically aware.Then the child suggests “focusing on digital innovation because all businesses must be pro digital because it meets the demands of the times.” The father then nodded and agreed the child's suggestion.

When the father passed on this story to us, with His fiery way of telling stories describes the moment when he was interviewed. The child's ideas are then elaborated according to their PD abilities. The father said that the assessors were those who still had minimal experience and do not know about the knowledge and areas they are asking about the more senior one.They just ask from the initial idea and come back to explore ideas that.The father conveyed his secret move, namely focusing on the content He conveyed it confidently, so that when questions turned to him, the explanation that has been said, he did not "blunder" and remained focused and determined with the explanation.Because in every interview technique, or investigation, When we start composing, the target question will definitely target your words which is “floating” and becomes an easy target.They will conclude that you making things up and not being consistent with the answers and of course the assessment will be bad, in the end we will not pass the interview/investigation session taking place.

From the experience of the story above, it can be concluded that we believe Self is the key to all aspects of this life.Imagine if... Sir, you don't have PD, what will happen to his promotion later? long?The results of the interview passed and the father was promoted, while several his colleague had to repeat the interview process several times because their lack of confidence in communicating and answering questions from the investigator.

Exactly the many tips that we often convey in every training that "mapping" the interlocutor's map becomes essential, to who should we talk to, who are they, what are their experiences? equal to us or below us.Of course take the story above, the father had done his homework well, that the person interviewing him was not in control field, they just dig and return to “turn” the question to find out whether the correct answer is mastered.Different from if we had to conquer the person you are talking to, especially with the number of people who have different "heads" and knowledge.So, Your knowledge absolutely must be above theirs.So, make sure it's there deep understanding, data and the latest knowledge that we must provide to them.If not, you have to be prepared to be underestimated by your audience.

Yesterday also in an online session with “change agents” in a different Ministry, someone asked me “how we can master material that we have just received, temporarily very limited?”I answered there was no other way than it had to be learn by doing research, even though our time is limited.For that reason, We can first ask about the context/purpose of the conversation that will be held discussed.From that minimal information, although we don't get the main details yet what is the discussion about, but we have to "start" by immediately looking for it general.For example, the topic of climate change, well, from there you can immediately look for issues that are happening currently in general, take the main focus which is a problem, and curating existing information with the latest data as well look for alternative solutions to existing issues, so that when the time comes, information what we already have will then enrich our insight, even with limitations time, but we already know from the results of observations we have made long ago the previous day.The point is to take the initiative to move first.We really have to smarter than our audience, that's a fixed price that will increase our "weight". as spokesperson.If you are lazy and don't have any initiative, you will certainly "die" in facing a larger audience knowledgeable from you.