Training on Speech Contests: Warwick John Fahy DTM
Table Topics Master: KC Loh CC
Speaker: Carlo Wolff ACB ALB
General Evaluator: Susan Zhou DTM
Evaluator 1: Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC
Evaluator 2: Andrew Wang ACB
Author Archive for Dan Smith, DTM
It can be hard work to deliver a presentation that is smooth, insightful and ends right on time. One of the speakers who really seems to get it right is Malcolm Gladwell. If you have ever watched him speak (like here on TED), you may notice that he speaks eloquently, even effortlessly, and ends with precise punctuality.
But when asked about it once, Gladwell replied, “I know it may not look like this. But it’s all scripted. I write down every word and then I learn it off by heart. I do that with all my talks and I’ve got lots of them.”
It’s great to connect with your audience as if you were just having a casual chat with them. And sometimes that’s precisely what you will want to do. Other times, when you want to really nail it, you might be better off going beyond the bullet points to rehearse, refine and distill the most important information that you are there to share. And find yourself on a level where you have that polish that casual (amateur?) speaking just doesn’t allow.
While memorizing isn’t “the answer”, if you want to deliver a professional-standard speech, you might find yourself enjoying an interesting experience if you treat your next presentation as a performance.
At least that what seems to work for the guy who wrote The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and, most recently, What the Dog Saw.
You can entertain, inform and inspire, but can you train?
3 January, 1-5:30pm: Learn how to be a trainer…
Our facilitator: Yingdan Liu ACS ALS
District 85 Lieutenant Governor for Education and Training
Certified Simultaneous Translator and Senior Toastmaster with great experience delivering dozens of workshops and training sessions.
Speaker to Trainer is the Toastmasters International program specifically designed to help you become a trainer – to bridge the gap between public speaking and delivering effective trainings. Through delivering this session, Yingdan will be completing a requirement towards her Advanced Communicator Gold.
In this program you’ll discover the five steps involved in preparing and presenting a training program using adult learning principles. You’ll also learn the role of trainers and the difference between public speaking and training. Along the way, you’ll learn how to make learning experiences enjoyable, how to handle difficult audiences, creating learning activities, using visual aids and designing the training itself.
Sunday 3 January – 1pm-5:30pm
150RMB or 100RMB until 25 December for Toastmasters
(download flyer here)
Please register here – no registrations will be taken on the day.
China Advanced Toastmasters presents…
Building Your Mental Power
How to Think and Lead with Purpose
And learn about:
Building Your Mental Power flyer
- Divergent thinking
- Option thinking
- Opportunity thinking
- Creative guesswork
- Mental Calisthenics
- Brainstorming
- Putting it together through facilitation
Andrew Shih ACS ALS, trained facilitator, certified management trainer and assessor, will deliver the training. Andrew has more than 16 years of experience in the fields of Change Management, Leadership Assessment, Reengineering, Human Performance and Organisation Development. Andrew holds an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School (UK) and is certified with numerous learning systems and assessment tools. He is also a certified NLP Master Practitioner and a Past President of Shanghai Leadership Toastmasters Club.
21 November, 2-6pm, MSD China Office, 20F Park Place 1601 Nanjing Road (at Changde Road)
We only have space for 20 18 16 6 2 more people. Yes, that’s just two places left… This will most likely sell out.
Update 6 November: SOLD OUT
Tickets are 100RMB until 11 November. From 12 November, if tickets remain, they will be 150RMB. In the unlikely event that seats are available on the day, they will be 200RMB.
Register your interest below or contact Spike Gu on 135 857 56625 (note corrected phone number) for more information.
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