Enhancing Global Competitiveness

Through Reading

An Opportunity to Make a
Positive Impact on Your Future
Academic and Personal Success
Monday 28 Feb 2011 | 11:30 to 12:00 AM
BINUS University Anggrek Campus
Speaker: Mr. Jaime Alfredo Cabrera
 Prayer for Serenity

“Lord grant me the serenity to

accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change
the things I can, and the wisdom
to know the difference.”
(The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer
written by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s or early 1940s.)
 Prayer for Serenity
"Tuhan berilah aku ketenangan
untuk menerima hal yang tidak
dapat diubah, keberanian
untuk mengubah hal yang saya
miliki, dan kebijaksanaan
untuk memahami perbedaan.“
(The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled
prayer written by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s or
early 1940s.)
 INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER
• NAME: Jaime Cabrera
• AGE: 49
• NATIONALITY: Filipino
• CURRENT OCCUPATION(S):
– Lecturer, Binus Business School JWC
– Corporate proofreader, editor, Binus International
University, Jakarta
• WORK EXPERIENCE: Teaching, Publishing, Mass
Media, Corporate Trainings, Writing
 Enhancing Global
Competitiveness
Through Reading
An Opportunity to Make a
Positive Impact on Your Future
Academic and Personal Success
 Let’s Begin With This Question:
• What is the
maximum number
of books you can
borrow from this
library, and for
how long can you
keep them
without penalty?
 Answer:
• The maximum
number of books you
can borrow from this
library is ___ books
on ________.
• You can keep them
without penalty for
_____.
 What Shall We Do Today?
For one hour, we are going to have a workshop that
will
• Tell you how good you are in reading
concentration
• Identify your learning style, and how you can
succeed
• Show how reading can improve your future
academic and personal success
• How you can enhance your global competitiveness
 Test of Reading Concentration
• You will now receive a test paper.
• You will need a pen or pencil.
• This test will determine how good
you are in reading concentration.
 Now You Know How Good
You Are in Reading
Concentration
• Thank you for your enthusiastic
participation.
• Let us proceed to the next part of
our workshop.
 Compare These Two Photos
COOL STUDENT BOOKISH STUDENT
 Compare These Two Photos
COOL STUDENT BOOKISH STUDENT
 For A Survey In Binus Anggrek:
Predict the Answers
COOL BOOKISH

Which one will you prefer to marry?

Which one will you prefer to date?
Which one will you choose as seatmate in
a difficult class?
Which one will you choose to be a parent
of your children?
Which one will you choose as partner to
manage your family and finances?
Which one will succeed later in life?
 For A Survey In This Room:
Predict the Answers
COOL BOOKISH

Which one will you prefer to marry?

Which one will you prefer to date?
Which one will you choose as seatmate in
a difficult class?
Which one will you choose to be a parent
of your children?
Which one will you choose as partner to
manage your family and finances?
Which one will succeed later in life?
 Image of Reading Among Students:
Compare the Answers
• Why?
 Is It Because of Your
Learning Style?
• We will now take a short test to determine
your learning styles.
• Please prepare your pen or pencils and
answer the test paper.
• What is your learning style?
• Given your learning style, what is the best
strategy for you to succeed in school?
 Benefits of Reading
Surveys say that reading has a direct effect on
literacy development:
• It improves your ability to express yourself
verbally.
• It increases your listening vocabularies.
• It reduces the number of language delays that
can prevent you from succeeding in school.
• It increases your language development for social
and business situations.
 Reading is For
People read for many reasons
• Entertainment – reading is meant to be fun
• Information – Is there something you want to
know but you cannot find someone to help
you? Example. Is there something you want
to know but asking someone about it may
have some negative effects? Example.
• Self-improvement –
 Global Competitiveness
• With regards to global competitiveness, we are born
with strengths and weaknesses.
• Global competition is governed by forces in the fields
of politics and economy.
• The most dominant political and economic powers
today are from native English speaking countries
where people are white.
• Thus, in the field of global competitiveness,
Indonesians are born with many disadvantages, by
accident of birth.
 To Change The Things We Can
• Remember that beautiful prayer
when we opened this session today:
• “Lord grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I
can, and the wisdom to know the
difference.”
 Our Strengths
Strengths Weaknesses Can we How
change
this?
We put We put on our best Yes. We do our
our best clothes for special events. best for our
foot We clean our house and selves.
forward. give the best to visitors.
We want Yes. We can be
to be best.
better.
We want Yes. We can be
to winners.
succeed.
 Our Weaknesses
Weaknesses Can we How
change
this?
We are brown. No.
English is not our native No.
language.
We are not fluent in Yes. We master
English. the English
language.
 Global Competitiveness
• Reading makes you look smart
– Reading opens more opportunities to you
• When you look smart, people trust/distrust you
• When you look smart, people go to you/others for
input
• When you look smart, people like/dislike you
• When you look smart, people assume you are
hardworking/lazy
• Companies prefer employees who look dumb/smart
• You want to go out with someone who looks
smart/dumb
• ?
 Global Competitiveness
– Reading increases your learning ability
• This depends on your learning style
• What is your learning style? Let’s know
your learning style: take this test.
• The best way to learn is according to your
learning style
 Global Competitiveness
– Reading increases your ability to
concentrate
• A person with good concentration ability makes
less mistakes
• A person with good concentration ability scores
higher in tests
• A person with good concentration ability
completes more projects, tasks, goals
 Global Competitiveness
– Reading increases your ability to survive.
• Life is uncertain; we don’t really know what will
happen next.
• The only permanent thing in life is change. This
makes us feel insecure.
• One way to feel secure is to prepare for any
possible future. How does reading help?
• Another way to feel secure is to predict the
future. We can predict the future by looking at
the past.
 Read for Pleasure
• Where do I begin? Read your
passion. What is your passion?
That which you enjoy most.
• Where can you read and enjoy
most today in Jakarta? The mall is
one place.
 Hot News
• What’s at the mall for readers?
Enhancing Global Competitiveness
Through Reading

An Opportunity to Make a
Positive Impact on Your Future
Academic and Personal Success
Monday 28 Feb 2011 | 11:30 to 12:00 AM
BINUS University Anggrek Campus
Speaker: Mr. Jaime Alfredo Cabrera
 That’s all for today.
• Thank you very much for your
kind participation.