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Message from Michael Notaro

Here’s a message from the Toastmasters International President (from here). He is undoubtedly sincere, though the tension in his face highlights how important it is to be personally congruent in whatever you are saying, not just in your words and … Continue reading

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Turning Evaluations Upside Down

Delivering an Evaluation is challenging. You are expected to give useful feedback to different individuals, often with very different needs, from events across a two-hour or more period. While perhaps interesting to the person receiving the feedback and useful for … Continue reading

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Visiting Global Communicators in Beijing

Global Communicators (#620500) meets in Beijing and is home to some leading Toastmasters. Last night (31 August, 2011) I dropped in an enjoyed a lovely meeting. One of the sessions that they had that I really liked was what they … Continue reading

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Vocal Variety: Awareness. Your Voice is Your Image

Attached here is a slideshow created by Krishna Murthy U on the importance of vocal variety. Whether you use it to develop your emphasis, pitch, tone, rate, or pause, we hope that you enjoy it! Vocal Variety: Your Voice is … Continue reading

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Timer, Ah-counter, Grammarian (TAG) Ah! Boring, is it?

This is another post from our g Timer, Ah-counter and Grammarians (TAG), oh! God the same stuff, meeting after meeting, nothing new, just boring roles! New members take—Timer, Ah counter and, may be, Grammarian roles. Dear Toastmaster buddy, answer honestly! … Continue reading

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A LATA: Active Learning At Toastmasters Meetings

How can you get the most of your time in Toastmasters? After all, if you’re going to spend so much time attending Toastmasters meetings, it’s a good idea to get something out of it. In his time in Shanghai, Krishna … Continue reading

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From Beijing Conference 2 – CAT

CAT has been awarded for the achievementS of year 2009-2010 as: 1) Carlo Wolff has led CAT to be Selected President Distinguished club (DCP=8) 2) CAT has won “Club with more than 30% Education Award” (Rank No.2 in District 85) … Continue reading

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From Beijing Conference 1 – Party A & Party B

It’s the first time for me to attend District Conference as a contestant since its beginning in 2006. Before that I used to serve as organizer or merely attendant. If we compare the organizer as Party B, the attendance is … Continue reading

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When the slideshow repeats, stop

I was enjoying the fabulous sushi at the Pudong Shangri-La last Saturday night, enjoying the company of fellow alumni of my university in Australia. Sadly it seems that the university – while being amongst the best in the world – … Continue reading

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How to present a training – in 400 words or less!

People are simple. They usually forget pretty much everything. If you want them to remember something, you gotta make it really really really really simple. And memorable. And powerful. And even then most people will forget it all. So what … Continue reading

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