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.
TME – Jenny Ni, CC & CL
Summitting Session – Carlo Wolff, ACB & CL on “Creating the Best Club Climate”
Table Topics Master – Marco Meng, CC & CL
Speeches
* Spike Gu, ACB & CL with “The Patriot” from the storytelling manual
* Guest speaker Helen Zhang, ACB & CL of Amazing Fridays with “It’s Now.” from the humorously speaking manual
* Emily Minor, CC & CL with “Couchsurfing: Changing the World One Couch at a Time” from the speaking to inform manual
General Evaluator – Joyce Hu, CC & CL
Individual Evaluator – Susan Zhou, DTM
Date: 2009-09-10
In a little over three hours on Sunday afternoon, more than 100 Shanghai Toastmasters were treated to a valuable Education Day. We were led most eloquently by David Yang CC (Microsoft No. 1) and Jackie Zhao CC (Lighthouse), our hosts who provided engaging interactions through the afternoon while linking the various sessions.
You will find videos from parts of the session here.
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In early 2008, as one of my last speeches before I completed the DTM requirements, I presented a speech at Pudong Toastmasters. This speech explained how you can achieve your DTM, and explored the challenges and steps that you can take. For this speech, I created a document to help us keep track of our speech progress, The Path to DTM. It’s now on the CAT website so please do use this as you can.
When I first joined Toastmasters, I saw the first 10 speeches as my focus. Along the way, I realized that there was much more that I could learn by taking things further.
Yet completing a DTM requires a very significant commitment over an extended period of time – a DTM will have usually delivered more than 50 separate speeches over at least 3 or 4 years. And there are some specific rules that you’ll need to follow – some projects count for some awards, but not for others. And you have to do things in the right way too – not just be a good speaker: I had to redo a component entirely because I didn’t have the records from when I completed one step years earlier… it’s almost like part of becoming a DTM is learning what the rules are, and making sure that you can follow them!
But it’s about setting your own standards. Where would you like to take your skills? It took me 11 years to complete my DTM – but I’m sure that you can do it much faster 
CAT has a number of specific initiatives that can help increase your chances of making it to DTM. And that’s one of the things that we focus upon – how to help you take your skills to the next level. You can find out more about The DTM Track here, on our website, or even better by attending one of our meetings.
I remember meeting Mark Hunter when he was preparing for a speech contest in around 1999. My cousin told me that he “had a voice like chocolate” – apparently in contrast to my own. Ten years have passed, and Mark has gone from being the Champion of District 69 to being World Champion. And we congratulate him.
You can listen to the start of his speech here.
The local newspaper records that, “Mark Hunter is proof positive of what can be achieved with a liberal dose of self-determination and an appreciation of the power of love.” And they have included the text from his speech in this story on his great achievement.
Mark, you probably don’t remember me, but congratulations!
- Daniel Smith, DTM
Below is the text of the speech. There seem to be a few errors amid the wonderful examples of alliteration – can you pick them?
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