PIA conducts trainers’ training for 44th IB soldiers

From the Philippine Information Agency (Sep 12): PIA conducts trainers’ training for 44th IB soldiers

To capacitate soldier-trainers of the 44th Infantry Battalion in their conduct of Youth Leadership Summits, PIA-9 team conducted today a lecture on communicative skills development and handling group discussion at Imelda town.

“Communicating is connecting to your audience,” said Regional Director Noemi B. Edaga of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-9 in a statement.

According to Dir. Edaga, it is important for every speaker to identify his audience before any activity to make the necessary preparations, as it is vital in effective communication development.

Director Edaga discussed to the 11 soldier-participants attending the training the communication process which is composed of three basic components: sender, message, and receiver.

“There is more to the three components. It is a cycle that also includes feedback from the receiver and back to the sender, and so on.”

She also explained public speaking as a skill that naturally flows out of listening, that is, also the ability to distinguish sounds in an alphabet.
“Speaking is a natural, fundamental human skill for expression and exposition,” Dir. Edaga said.

She also stressed the three PIA core values, which are: timeliness, relevance, and accuracy as an effective tool of communication.

Ms. Alma L. Tingcang, information center manager of PIA-Sibugay, discussed handling group discussion and presented the video documentary produced by PIA-ZAMBASULTA on climate change.

To apply what they have learned during the discussion, the participants were grouped into two and were asked to answer questions relevant to the climate change video presentation and presented the group’s output at the end of the training.

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