Tag: toastmasters

  • Goa YMCA toastmasters

    Originally posted on toastmasters chronicle:                                                                                                                                                                        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…

  • Policing??

    Johnny T,Uy.DTM Is a Toastmaster but before that he is the personal of the Philippine national police. I came a cross an interview with him, and the police I realized was  more than Bobbie with funny hats and stick in their hands. They were the why me and you slept peacefully at night. The good…

  • 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…

  • Luxury

    Sometimes I wonder if a little luxury could help us over come our artists block. A little pampering what exactly it is would of course vary for each of us.  For me it was my toastmasters. Lack of time, funds, other “more important” priorities tend to pop up. but these are never really authentic blocks.…

  • 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…

  • 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…