YBS Extempore Competition
YOUTH Business Society as the name suggests is a business society of Manav Rachna International University that has a vision and mission of only making the learning experience of all business students like a roller-coaster ride. Roller-coaster is a metaphor for “The stage”. It looks thrilling and scary from far behind but as soon as you take the ride you feel it was probably an experience like never before. The same way Stage fear only exists from the back bench, as soon as you step up you realise how powerful it is in terms of communicating knowledge to people around you. It is so fascinating how one platform can help change so much and more importantly work on self-improvisation.
This society gives you all the opportunities to take and give out knowledge and work on those skills that one would use in the long run no matter if you are working in a corporate or starting up your own business because one would always have to speak and communicate in the most effective way to get the work done. The society conducts activities that would help you enhance your personality and give you all the confidence you charm your audience and deliver what you have in mind in the most efficient and effective manner.
Our first and recent event was the Extempore competition. An extempore is an impromptu speech which the candidate is required to make on a topic given then and there. In some instances, the panel provides the candidate with about a minute or so to organize his/her thoughts before speaking. Extempore helps students in various ways, to name a few: it helps students to build up confidence and take down stage fear. It provides an opportunity to work on fluency of the language and since the topics are given spontaneously, the students can judge if they are able to deliver what they think in the most appropriate and effective manner. Moreover, it helps you to improvise on your listening skills and the most important is the fact that it gives you a break from your regular academics but on the same hand makes you do something productive.
The event was conducted on 14th September 2017 in T block and 20 students participated in the competition. The topics were generic and based on social happening and hypothetical topics that required creative imagination and delivery in the right way. A topic was given on the spot, 30 seconds were given to think about the topic and a minute was given to deliver the thoughts. The key was to think crisp and only deliver the most relevant points about the topic in the most appropriate way. The judging parameters were Content, Communications Skills and Body Language and was based on point system. The participants excelled during the competition and took the initiative to with the utmost motivation to make this competition fun and growth bound.Our panel involved Mrs Priyanka Verma , Course Coordinator for Department of Business Studies.
“We, the YBS team, intent to take forward the society with the utmost responsibility and with the motive of adding to the development and upliftment of the most precious resource that India has i.e Youth.”
Nikhil Malhotra
BBA (G) IB – 5th Semester
Founder & President
YOUTH Business Society
Manav Rachna International University