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Tag Archives: evaluation
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
Next CAT Meeting – November 26th
Theme: Giving Critical Evaluations TME – Spike Gu, ACB & CL Summiting Session – Emily Minor, CC & ALS, on “Critical Left Brain/Right Brain Evaluations.” Table Topics – Jenny Ni, CC & CL Speakers: Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB – … Continue reading
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The trouble with suggestions
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 … Continue reading
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
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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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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