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!
- TME Joyce Hu CC CL
- TTM Linda Ma CC
- Special visitor from Australia, Andrew Smith, will deliver his C10 speech
- Organisational Growth by Entering New Markets, Carlo Wolff ACB CL
- Summiting Session: Super Table Topics with Dan Smith DTM
- GE Spike Gu ACB CL
Super Table Topics are a special new initiative for China Advanced Toastmasters. Just imagine a speech-length Table Topics session…
Continue reading ‘New Directions: 9 July’
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…
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