Abstract topics in group discussions, such as "Are influencers influencing?", can be effectively navigated by strategically interpreting them within one's area of expertise and guiding the conversation towards actionable insights.
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hi students group discussions are quite
challenging because often organizations
give very abstract topic just last week
one of the topics given at a big
business school was
our influencers influencing
they were total eight students and 15
minutes time was given to discuss this
topic are influencers influencing
now this kind of an abstract topic is
something which can often lead to
confusion as to how to speak on it
however there is on the contrary a very
beautiful aspect which makes abstract
topics relatively facile
and that is the ability to interpret it
according to your convenience and then
lead the group discussion very smartly
so let me today give you a technique by
which you can quickly interpret these
abstract topics according to the area
which is your strength and then lead the
group very nicely so let's take this
topic are the influencers really influencing
influencing
here the first thing that you must think
when it's given the time to discuss and
sort of plan your talk before the
discussion is
who are the possible influencers
so you need to think quickly that when
the term influencer is being used who
does it signify and there could be five
prominent influences number one
educational institution teachers schools
colleges number two political
institutions the politicians various
political parties or political
establishments number three religious institutions
institutions
the various kind of religious bodies
religious priests after all they are all
influencing the opinion of the public
number four government and related
sources so various ministers mlas MPS
through their campaign are of course
doing nothing else but trying to
influence our opinion and finally number
five media
newspaper magazines social media in
today's world are all doing the task of
influencing The View
so once you're clear who are the people
who are being referred to as influencers
then you want to sort of quickly think
that are they doing a good job of
influencing you
is educational system doing a good job
of shaping up
is religious body whichever body you may
be associated with influencing your
thought process
various kind of social medias or
channels are they doing a good job at
this or no
so the CIS sort of becomes the Second
Step where you are quickly judging are
they doing a good job influencing if yes
how and then in the end you probably
reserve your thoughts for what should change
change
if some institution is failing be it
media politically situation religious
bodies educational institutions if they
are failing then what should be changed
and based on all of this you make your
group discussion approach so let's give
a small demonstration
and the first speaker is always a
introducer a leader whose task is to
introduce the topic so as a leader you
may want to give a start as follows
my dear friends it's my great privilege
to welcome you all at this Institute of
investment banking company and our group
discussion topic is an extremely
pertinent topic where we have been asked
to debate
our influencers influencing or not now
time is limited we have been given only
15 minutes and it's a compulsory
consensus group discussion so may I
quickly suggest that influencers is a
term which we can use for anyone any
person or Institute who has the ability
and also the responsibility to influence
the opinion so educational institutions
religious bodies political institutions
social media channels newspapers are all
which would constitute influencers and
what the group could discuss is how are
all of these sections doing in terms of
their job of influencing others and
based on that we could eventually come
up with recommendations are the
influencers influencing and what is it
that they need to transform
so this is how an opener could introduce
the topic and then thereon depending on
how the sequence goes e -student may
take up a role of about one specific
topic so suppose you enter as the first
Speaker who is to sort of follow after
the initiator so you would go as follows
thank you for your introduction my
friend please allow me to talk briefly
about educational institutions while
education institutions have a very vital
responsibility of managing our nation
however it's a matter of worrying that
nowadays because of the hybrid mode of
education and the schools struggling
between online versus Offline that role
is not being disseminated to the way it
should be done
so I think there is a serious need for
teachers to change their methods for the
various kind of curriculum bodies to
evolve new curriculum so that they can
educate and influence also the same goes
for colleges also because our study
system has become quite archaic and
non-vocational therefore I think a major
catharsis is needed in the education so
that the teachers can really influence
the students better
now at this stage a second candidate may
enter and say I think that the big
influences of today are social media and
it is really very worrying to see how
anybody who may not even have a proper
education qualification could just use
channels such as Instagrams YouTube and
start giving dissertations on speeches
without the veracity of that person the
credentials of that person is being
questioned so yes influencers are
influencing however it's a very worrying
and dangerous sign that those who don't
even have the qualifications can
sometimes come as preachers of things
which actually they have no credibility
to speak on
and thereafter you move on to maybe
political establishment that yes
political establishments are a big
influencer and they're doing a good job
of influencing however very sadly they
have their hidden agenda which can often
really admire the entire Noble purpose
of their message so religious
intolerance political sectarianism
dividing people is all being important
strategic tools being used by political
parties for their own gain so they are
influencing but unfortunately towards a
very evil motive of their political
gains like this it keeps going on and if
you want to sort of argue back
then you could say friends I have noted
all of your points however that message
which has been given to us and the task
is we have to agree whether influencers
are influencing or not
from what our group is discussing I'm
beginning to make out that we can all
agree that educational institutions are struggling
struggling
on the other hand social media based
propagators or political parties are
able to use these kind of mediums more
effectively as an example of corporate
leader Elon Musk wanting to buy out this
popular medium of Twitter is driven by
nothing else but with the desire to
control and influence the moment of the
youth so I believe that the group can
really agree that influencing is
happening so long as the channel medium
is being smartly used so in this sense I
think the group could give a
recommendation as to what are the future
mediums of communications which should
be used to influence at this point a
final summarizer may enter and could
probably conclude the debate or the
discussion by saying my friends we have
had a very healthy and very convivial
debate so time is almost finished so may
I present the summary by saying that
influences are really influencing
provided they are taking care of three things
things
number one the content is appealing
because today's public has shorter
attention span they are more curious
about things which are related to them
therefore the relevance of content
becomes very important number two the
art of presenting content so students
the youth which is the important Market
gets more attracted towards fund based
entertainment based kind of learning so
conventional methods if they are
continue to be used could be
counterproductive and the youth could
lose interest so the way you present
content packaged in an entertaining
exciting Factor plays a very big role
and thirdly which medium are you using
so times have changed therefore if our
influencers have to influence then they
have to judiciously Master the art of
using social media Instagram YouTube and
make a very beautiful package which can
succeed in the hybrid mode so all in all
the group concludes that the influencers
are influencing however they can
influence more effectively if they
choose the right content package it in a
right entertaining Manner and deliver it
through the right kind of media which
may be properly chosen keeping in mind
your target audience
so this is how you could do a group
discussion on an abstract topic are
influences influencing or not this is
gagan saying signing off for the day
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