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Category: toastmasters

  • Mentoring,

    A great concept at toastmasters. I was all fired by it, until I thought let me see what actually is the onus of mentoring. The dictionary calls Mentor (capitalized) as a friend of Odysseus, entrusted with the education of Odysseus son Telemachus, it has come to mean a trusted counsellor or guide, a tutor, coach…

  • 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…