The Importance of Public Speaking Ability for Students

Friday (15/3), Faculty of Psychology Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) collaborated with Swaragama Training Center (STC) held Seminar by title “Powerful Public Speaking”. This Seminar aims to give an introduction and understanding related to the importance of public speaking ability for students. 80 Students bachelor degree attended and fulfilled Auditorium room G-100 Faculty of Psychology UGM. The seminar went well started at 10 AM to 11.15 AM. the event began with ice breaking that arouses their spirited by Andita Ayu Pratiwi, S.T as guide and also representation from STC. After ice breaking the event moved to material explanation public speaking by Gideon Surya Pratama, S.Kom, PLT. In his opinion, the millennial generation ability in public speaking has decreased dramatically. And the reason because of gadget. Gadget causes decreasing human interaction. In this case, that is speaking interaction because this interaction was replaced by feature chatting in entire social media. Even though the ability for competition in the workspace, public speaking ability is needed. Therefore, the student must have the urge to increase their ability specifically public speaking ability. Gideon also revealed that students who are accustomed to the culture of Jogja, which when speaking must be very careful and truly laid out, are not relevant to the culture in big cities. Therefore, the seminar of public speaking aims to give realization about the importance of public speaking skills because this ability would help make career better. Gideon explains at the end of the event that “as long as human exist, speaking skills specifically public speaking will still be needed”. (Public Relations Psychology UGM/ Jehna)