I’ve been hearing so much of the word “suggestions”. One very senior General Evaluator last week used the word at least every minute during their evaluation.
- “If I could make a suggestion…”
- “One suggestion that I would have…”
- “Now onto some suggestions…”
A well-used signpost becomes a distraction for the audience and a crutch for the speaker.
Let’s stop wasting time talking about it and instead use that time to give relevant, targeted, and useful suggestions.
As an evaluator, emphasise what the speaker did well that audience can learn from, and areas that the speaker could improve that would also help the audience.
Leave your personal comments for a private conversation with the speaker and perhaps in the written evaluation.
The start of a new Toastmasters year begins with our first meeting on 9 July!
- Special visitor from Australia, Andrew Smith, will deliver his C10 speech
Theme: Power
25 June, 2009 from 7:10pm
- TME Dan Smith DTM
- TTM Jenny Ni CC CL
- Speech: John Ng CC
- HPLP Launch speech: Carlo Wolff ACB CL
- General Evaluator: Susan Zhou DTM
- Individual Evaluator: Emily Minor CC ALS
- Individual Evaluator: Wendy Wang ACB ALB
A highlight from last week was finding out that our own Spike Gu ACB CL has been elected as President-elect of Shanghai People’s Square Toastmasters Club. This is a huge responsibility and opportunity for Spike to lead a benchmark club and we all congratulate him on this honour.
You’ll also see Spike as TME at our next meeting…
Creating a speech can be challenging. You need to come up with a topic. And you need to generate ideas about that topic. And you need to get that topic aligned with the project objectives. And then, in case you had nothing better to do, you’ll want to check that the speech that you created aligns with your personal objectives.
No wonder so few people make it to DTM.
This week, join us as our President-elect, Carlo Wolff ACB CL, explores how to Create the Speech. As well as…
- TME Spike Gu ACB CL
- TTM Susan Zhou DTM
- Polarity Wendy Wang ACB ALB
- GE Emily Minor CC ALS
- IE Jenny Ni CC CL
This Thursday, 11 June, from 7pm.
Email attend@chinaadvancedtoastmasters for venue details.
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