Theme : All IN ...Role: Ah counter for One Infy TM meets on 5th July 2020.

Theme : Ah counter for One Infy TM meets on 5^th July 2020.

Yesterday, I was checking my mailbox. By the way, not the outlook one but my personal one. We must check it sometime. One particular mail was from NPTEL which caught my attention, of course I never visited NPTEL site after landing Job in Infy. Special lecture series by Mr. Sudhir Kumar Mishra @Sr. Geo Lead - Talent Acquisition, Infosys and the Topic was Career at Infosys for Fresher’s. That lecture brought nostalgia Down the memory lanes, gliding over my past days preparing for Infosys campus Placements, getting offer letter then that period waiting for Joining date all was worth it. Finally, on 8^th October my Infosys memories began and I cherish each and every one of them till date. All in, this one is very special added today…. across various DC’s we are able to meet and share thoughts.

Good evening fellow TM and dear guests…

Coming from memories to my role, In lot of moments there are few moments in our routine, especially in IT profession where the widows is taking time to load, or browser is connecting, please wait a moment pop up or most vital desktop is hanged.  We have these moments every day, we don’t want though. Similarly, in our speeches there are unintentional pauses, filler pattern and ah counts which we are use to while speaking but can’t be ignored as it distracts audience. Here comes my role as an Ah counter in today’s meet, I will be monitoring the usage of Ahs, crutch words, filler patterns and unintentional pauses, both long and short. I’ll be keeping a record of the Ahs which are sounds like Ah, Um, Err, Hmm etc. Crutch words and filler patterns are words used to fill our thought process and include words such as ‘you know’, ‘I mean’, ‘actually’, ‘like’.A short pause is a pause up to 3 seconds and a long pause, over 3 seconds. So let’s try to have pauses as rightly-timed as possible and aim to minimize the use of unintended pauses, Ahs and filler words in our speech.

I will be presenting my report when the general evaluator calls for the report and would also be mentioning the perfect articulator of the day. A perfect Articulator is the person who would be using minimum ah counts and filler words. Best of luck to the all speakers. Lastly, also there are some courageous moments when we do stuffs out of our comfort zone, especially for first timers. Please avail the opportunity and participate actively.