Category: social skills
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Introducing a speaker
As the toastmaster of the day, my challenge had been to find an appropriate theme, and then introduce the speakers and their topic in relation to my theme. I also noticed introduction were an afterthought hastily thrown together, at the last-minute by someone who really did not know the speaker, the speech or its value…
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charisma
What does the word charisma evoke? The dictionary defines it as 1 : a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (as a political leader) 2 : a special magnetic charm or appeal <the charisma of a popular actor> Many people believe that it is a gift either one is born with. To me charisma…
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Truth
The truth What is the truth? To hell with truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial as the lawyers say. The life of a pipe dream is what gives life to the world misbegotten madslot of us drunk or sober—Eugene O’Neill says in the…
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speechless
Speechless… Ever been at that meeting where someone babbles continuously, at the end of the speech the person says with this finish my few words, god if that were few words what would be a whole deal? The conferences where people eat into the next speakers time, how many of us have been there. The most…
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re-enforcing listening.
1997 my grandmother passed away, I was winding up her house, I came across a file, where all the letters that my brother and I had written to her were filled, she had marked appreciating comments she had notes things that she had to discuss with my mother from her observation of the letter, they…
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