When BlogAdda gave us the prompt on the touch being different I did a story that was with me for a while. But I did ponder over touch. Touch is one of the five senses the sparsha. That is it is primal communication pathway, a non-verbal communication. Sometimes it can be very reassuring sometimes it …
Getting Technical
I have been requested by a group of young doctors, who are into public health to help them communicate better in the health education sector, Both my areas of work that is dentistry and theatre fortunately are hands on subjects. So there is no dictate the notes happening. What I realized is that people tend …
Feeling Our Words
Feeling our words, ಆಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ನೀಚ ಬುದ್ದಿಯ ಬಿಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ವಿಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ಪರರನಿ ನಿಂದಿಸಲು ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ನಾಲಿಗೆ. The opening lines of Puranadara daasa a kannada poet, that roughly translates, to characterless tongue, mind yourself, don’t move function to mindlessly hurt others. At the toastmasters one exercise that we have is the way we use the words, and …
Seven steps ay speech craftin’.
How does speech writing work. I guess each one of us has our own technique for this. For me speech is simply sharing something with a group of people. I would use the information I have to create a focus. For example my base information is what I collected in my career as a dentist. …
over communicate.
Stay in communication ... . You are not in communication.... Keep people in the loop .... I have heard a lot of this both in the Toastmasters and the Landmark forum. Call XYZ says the coach, if he does not call again keep doing so until he does well that sounds like a telemarketer and …
Goa YMCA toastmasters
from our toastmasters club.
BEFORE TOASTMASTERS AFTER TOASTMASTERS
I have had a very interesting journey while completing my competent communication manual .
My membership happened by accident as I was attending the meetings as a guest since my wife was a member . A new club was to be formed at Mapuca for which TM Umesh requested me to join . I finally joined and then took off in delivering one speech every month for the next ten months.
I prepare my speeches on subjects which are close to me and try to make it simple so that it connects with the audience . In this journey , I was helped by my mentor , a man of few words but the right words and someone whose advice is highly reliable.
Difficult to choose my favourite speech but I feel the speech that had the audience entertained gets my vote . For…
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