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Due to her immense popularity and charming smile, Rashmika Mandana is often dubbed as India’s national crush. But one of the things beyond her looks that makes her so charming is her articulation. >> I don’t like people trolling women on their bodies. As long as that’s not the case and if they’re trolling about film, cinema, my face in the film, and I see the dialogue, I know how the performance was.
I have done the performance 5 months ago. And if you’re tired of blanking out while speaking, rambling or just not sounding the way you want, then this video will help because we’re going to get into three habits that you and I can learn from Rashmaka Mandana to help us structure our thoughts and hence communicate them more articulately.
We’re going to get into an overlooked communication element to massively improve our speaking, a reliable communication framework to help you articulate your thoughts without blanking out, and a simple body language trick to help you look more expressive when you speak. By the way, if you’re new here, hi, my name is Red from Frantically Speaking, and we release communications content all the time.
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If we get multiple comments of the same people, we will try to create that video. So, first let’s start by understanding one of the most overlooked elements of communication. We generally when we teach our students about different aspects of speaking, we want to get into how do we speak impromptu? How do we use our hands and our voice modulation and everything? But a bit of a boring aspect of communication is this.
And I’m going to play a clip over here. Watch it and then see if you can understand what it is that I’m talking about. >> Okay. Say u sorry this age group is what >> 18 to 20. >> Yeah. >> So you notice what what she did there is she first started by trying to understand who her audience is. And that’s one of the most overlooked aspects of communication.
The more we can understand who our audience is, the clearer our communication becomes. Not in terms of the words we say, not in terms of how we say it or our structure or anything like that, but in terms of understanding what will be the most valuable in terms of information or entertainment for that group of people or even if it’s just a single person.
Years ago, I remember when we were at this one networking event, uh my finance friends had taken me to it and there were two speakers that day. the one was this big short investor and one was a startup founder. The big short investor came and he spoke for 15 minutes, 20 minutes about what it takes to be successful and whatever.
I do not even remember what he said. The second guy came and he started off his entire speech. There were about 50 of us in the room. He’s like, “Okay, yeah, this is me and this is what I do. And before I get into what I want to talk about, I want to know what you guys need me to talk about.
“ And then he literally went one by one across 50 people and asked them what is it that they are looking for from him. Now I’m not saying that we need to do that all the time wherever we speak. But taking that effort helps us to personalize our communication to such a great degree. And that’s the very first step of articulate speaking is to know your audience.
But once we get that out of the way, how do we really structure our thoughts so that we’re able to speak in a more organized fashion? So in this interview, Rashmika Mandana is asked what she does to get herself into a particular role so that she can perform to the best of her ability. And she responds using one of my favorite communication frameworks.
If you’ve been watching the videos on this channel for a while, you’ll know it. It’s called the prep framework. It stands for point, reason, example, and point again. So when you’re asked a question, you start with a point, you give your reason for it, you give an example, and then you conclude with the point again.
one of the easiest ways to structure your communication if you’re struggling with impromptu speaking or with any form of articulation. So, I’m going to play the clip of how she responded and then we’ll discuss it a little more. >> What do I do as an actor to get into a certain role is me surrendering myself to a director because I just truly believe that you can pretty much do the same per performance in all of your films, but it’s it’s the director’s point of view that the audience are seeing it.
Example, if I were to perform a six-minute scene in one shot, first of all, the director comes and tells me what he wants. So that is already registered in my mind and I do exactly what he wants. But also tomorrow what the audience see is not the six single 6 minutes single take, right? People are seeing the edit and in edit the crucial things can be seen and the crucial things can be missed.
>> So that is on director’s hand. So I just feel like if the director loves you truly, you can see it on screen. I I just I just have the tendency of surrendering my surrendering myself to the director 100%. >> Now if you’re starting to use this framework, a simple way to do it is to use transition words.
For instance, when you are asked the question, you want to start by repeating the question and then moving on to your point. So when she’s asked the question of what does she do to get herself into a particular role, she doesn’t just say I do this as her point. She first says >> what do I do? as an actor to get into a certain role is me surrendering myself to a director.
>> So just to use the question as the starting point will help you to flow into the answer a lot more effectively and it gives you those few precious seconds to really frame your mind. When you move into the reason you use the word because >> because I just truly believe that. And then when you go into the example you can say for example like she did >> example if I were to perform a six-minute scene >> and then you just repeat your point again >> I I just I just have the tendency of surrendering my surrendering myself to
the director 100% >> and that allows your mind to have certain checkpoints so that you can speak with more structure. Now on this channel we generally talk a lot about what these celebrities do well in their communication. I loved researching this video because Rashmika Mandana is just so charming to listen to.
But in one of the interviews, in fact the one that we just showed you right now, there is one aspect that we felt was not going correctly from a technical communication perspective which was weird because when I pointed out to you, you’ll notice that she’s not doing that in other interviews. So something must have been off over here in some way.
But let me tell you about it. So this has to do with her body language. And you’ll notice that her hands are closed off like this. and she’s kind of leaning forward. One of the most basic aspects of communication is we don’t want to close off our body like this because it communicates underconfidence. It communicates defensiveness while we’re speaking.
We want to have a more open body language when we’re speaking up. And that’s what she does in other interviews like in this instance or this one or even this one. Now, [clears throat] this is not a criticism on her because we all will never be perfect completely with our communication every time. It’s just something to point out because the contrast was very stark in this interview itself.
The lesson for us is that when we’re speaking to be a little more conscious of the way our body language is presenting itself and if we notice ourselves hunching forward or closing off just to open it up a little bit and we don’t have to exaggerate it but just to open it up a little bit will help us be more conscious of the way we are speaking.
By the way earlier in the video I spoke about the prep framework. If you want more frameworks like that for articulate speaking, we’ve made an entire video on five mental frameworks that you can utilize in different situations. You can check out that whole video right
This simple framework will show you exactly how to start an impromptu speech when you’re put on the spot and you can speak without ever blanking out. Impromptu speaking has been a massive challenge for me. In fact, when I joined Toast Masters, which is a club that allows you to practice impromptu speaking, I did not want to go up and speak for the first entire year of my membership.
So, I was paying money, but I wasn’t speaking because I didn’t know what to say when I was given a topic. I knew I could speak on that topic. I I had some content in my mind. But how do you start speaking? Because once you start, you can get into a rhythm and then continue. And it took me a long time to understand the importance of starting as well as continuing from the beginning of your impromptu speech.
This has not only helped me speak more effectively in Toastmasters meetings, but in any situation when I’m put on the spot, I can always rely on this framework to communicate effectively. So let’s get started. By the way, if you like such communication content, you can subscribe for more videos. We have a ton of videos surrounding effective communications.
So the framework I want to talk about is very simple. It’s five letters which spell out care C. K stands for context, answer, reason, example, and conclusion. It starts by us providing context on the topic, giving our main answer, supporting it with reasons and examples, and then concluding it through a summary. The best part about this framework is it not only gives us direction but it also helps us speak in a crisp manner.
So let’s understand it through a very simple example. Let’s say you’re put on the spot and asked a question such as hey tell me your favorite book. Now we can just say hey my favorite book are the Harry Potter books because there is I I just really like the characters over there.
Now we can say that but no one will ever hear that and be like hey this guy can effectively communicate. Instead, you want to apply the kerosy framework before you get to your answer of whatever your favorite book is. Provide some context. The context can simply say, I’ve been reading since I was 9 years old. The very first books I was given were these Enan Blighten series of famous five and mystery novels meant for kids itself.
But I never really liked it too much because it it was very realistic for me. And ironically, I’m not a fan of realism. I like to explore fantasy things that lets my mind go into an imaginative space. So my favorite book are the Harry Potter book series and that’s because it allows my mind to escape into a completely different reality with with magic with characters that I can fall in love with with different story lines that take me on a journey which I could have never even thought of.
The fourth book is the part where the series takes a darker turn. So the books turn much more into the villainous side of all the characters. It shows things that are not so juvenile. The language is much more mature and the overall story line is taking you to a much bigger picture as to where you were in the first. And after I read that, it completely opened my mind to the world of fantasy as a whole.
Not just Harry Potter, but so many more books within this genre completely captured my attention. And I’ve been reading them ever since. And so my favorite book is not just one, but it’s the entire Harry Potter series. Context, answer, reason, example, conclusion. That’s how it works. And by the way, this does not just apply to random topics like these.
It also applies in situations where you’re made to give an answer when you’re caught off guard. For example, let’s say you’re sitting in a meeting and your boss walks in and asks you, “Hey, do you think we should change our CRM system to this to this new one?” Now if you asked a question which is opinion based like this one we can simply say uh yes or no we could and we could maybe provide one or two reasons for it but instead we can make our point a lot more substantial by adding the kin framework.
We start by giving context. CRM are quite complex and we as companies often underestimate how much time they can really take to be implemented and they cause a lot more stress than relief in the short term which is why I feel that we do not really need to go ahead with a new CRM system. This is mainly because the current CRM that we have is fulfilling 80 to 90% of our major requirements and given the priorities of the company right now.
I don’t think we need to burden our employees with adapting to a completely new system. I’ll give you a quick example. In my previous company, we had done the same thing where we found a new CRM system that was a little more expensive and gave us a few more attractive features. We went ahead with a shift.
The team promised us 3 months to get it done. It took 12 months to get that system in place. It disrupted the current workflow. When we got the new system, it took more time to train somebody to adapt to it. And it was just a complete mess. And that’s why in my opinion, I do not think we should shift our current system at this stage in our journey.
And that’s how the KNC framework work. But I should also mention it’s not just about applying this one framework. Earlier in the video, I told you I can rely on this particular framework when I’m put on the spot. But the truth is this framework cannot apply in every situation. That’s why we’ve created a video on five different frameworks that apply to different different situations which will heavily reduce your chances for blacking out while speaking.
You can check out that entire video right