I am afraid I have bad news!

The Presentation and Communication Skills (PCS) juggernaut continues. As if the press conference practice wasn’t enough during the week, we have another piece of personal development coming up next week. This involves how to give bad news.

Today evening our Blue stream representative Neil Marshall (Britain) arranged for screening a 45 minute video. This video is a taster of what lies ahead of us during next week. This next week’s exercise on building our softer skills revolves around how to give bad news. We saw the video anchored by the person who most likely, shall be with us next week (will not share his identity as of now). There were three kinds of situations involving communication of bad news. While many of us would have undergone academic education on how to communicate bad news in written form, here it will be on a face-to-face situation with real actors.

This diary posting is just to build up your curiosity. I am restraining myself to share greater details now itself. So while we wait with baited breath for the close encounters of the “bad” kind, you all keep guessing what is this all about.