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Category Archives: evaluation
Being less boring when reading
From time to time, you might need to read a speech, poem or book. When you do, make sure that you look up from time to time. It’s great if you know the script really well though even if you … Continue reading
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Tagged boring, framing, poem, poetry, reading, script, Shanghai Leadership
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General Evaluation at Shanghai No. 1
Last Monday night our VPE was the GE at Shanghai No. 1 at their 499th meeting. It was a longer evaluation than is often possible and you can see it here or below but some of the key points are … Continue reading
Posted in evaluation, Speech
Tagged Dan Smith, evaluation, General Evaluator, Introductions, utilization
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Some thoughts on how to be a great evaluator
Be careful of asking audiences questions. Especially ambiguous question. The audience won’t always give you the answer you’re looking for and sometimes will give answers that are deliberately difficult. Don’t ask the audience if they liked it. Or anything else … Continue reading
More thoughts from an evaluator
We’re always watching evaluations. Sometimes the General Evaluator will evaluator the evaluators, but rarely for more than a few moments. CAT Secretary Wendy Wang ACB ALB did a particularly good job at Lighthouse yesterday afternoon. I especially liked how she … Continue reading
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Tagged evaluation, General Evaluator, Lighthouse, Wendy Wang
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Thoughts after a General Evaluation
I had a lovely time visiting one of my favourite Clubs in Shanghai last night. As GE for the meeting, I had the following thoughts that I wanted to share: Introduce with purpose and impact. Providing a little bit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Smith, evaluation, General Evaluator, Introductions, Projector, Table Topics, Warmup Session
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Read your manual
Each of the speech projects in the Toastmasters education program is specifically crafted to help develop your speaking skills in a particular fashion. When I started speaking, I just wanted to talk and have people listen to me – I … Continue reading
Raymond Gao’s ACB speech
Recently I was honoured to evaluate Raymond Gao’s speech at People’s Square Club. Raymond and I have known each other for almost as long as I have been attending Toastmasters clubs in Shanghai, and to evaluate his A10 was a … Continue reading
