Transcendance - 16 :: I am as natural as I am....during Public Speaking

Hi Gowri
While I have vomited tons and tons of words until now on how I am improvising in public speaking, here there was another live experince in office circuit to prove the point once again to myself (such a doubtful creature I am.... still having silly doubts about my skill set !!)
Having a weekly meeting with entire team (just for some general presentation, updates to be given by the manager and some fun activities) have become a basic culture of my organisation these days...and every team has their own schedule / pattern on this meeting.
At our team, we have this (standing) meeting on thursdays...but there are some teams which meet on Friday...I was invited by one of the team (which is closely connected to us in terms of operations...it is the audit team which ensures the quality of our processing) yesterday as a "chief guest".....Incidentally I learnt that they call some other supervisor / manager / any other member from other team for a crisp speech / sharing with their team....(I was quite happy when it was explained to me....as we dont do such things at our team !!)
So, here I went to their team at 4.50 PM (they told tentatively they expect me around 5 PM)...as they did have other agenda stretching between 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM.... I shared smiles with few known faces and nodded my head with the Manager whom I familiar with....! I was introduced as a great "speaker" and also THE communication trainer by the Junior Girl who works with our team closely !!
That gaves me a natural way of starting off.....I told with a smile that I just "talk" and never make any "speeches".....and also gently corrected the girl who introduced me that I am a part of the training team in which there are 26 other people too....so I am not THE trainer.....!! It was an enviable start for any one who is called for speech...I then checked for few of the members who have attended my training sessions... half dozen hands got raised...and I acknowledged them.....
Then, I spoke of a particular process improvement that we did at our team which is of special signficance and use to this team (audit team) and told them the logic behind doing this....I also managed to have a quick q & a session after I finished talking for 7 - 8 minutes, and it was nice to handle those half dozen questions....
I was given a momento (parker pen) and a spot card (this is a recent introduction in our company...where we have been supplied a bright looking oval shaped card which we can give to each others writing the names and details of acknowledgement.....we have it stuck up at our work station.....this really works magice since last its introduction last year march...I think) and I came out gracefully by 5.15 PM.
This can very well qualify for moment of bliss too....BUT, there are more compelling reasons why I am posting it here...?? During my talk, I was observing with delight that I was so simple and natural.....without sounding too informal and disrespectful.... I cracked some jokes and got into a big hearty laughters myself, acknowledged the noddings of people as I spoke, casually scratched my itching nose...handled my hands properly....and was quite conscious when I closed my talk on some thing that I read in my course material of public speaking......
"A good speaker is one who closes the speech when the audience wants him to continue"
Krishnaarpanam
suchoo
ps:- No posting is being made for Moments of bliss series today / for the week....due to two reasons....(1) it is quite difficult to isolate a specific moment of bliss when I have them aplenty; (2) eager to read some postings of Bhishma before I ooze out some more......I prefer to "wet the bed" holding my stuff to myself until you are going to have a huge orgasm with the blog !!!
Am I becoming too dangerous with the vocabulary ??? so it be !!