Good fun last night and sit back and just listen to a meeting rather than help deliver it.
I was grunt counter and found the ah counter form very useful to structure my listening. I did notice the usual ah..umm..err, but also dragged word like "soooooooooooooo we all need to stop over thinking", which under pressure … Continue Reading ››
Growing Cranfield Speakers Club beyond the university.
I found this Evaluation of an Advanced manual project very stimulating and educational. The speaker was John who is a seasoned member of Toastmasters and Cranfield Speakers. John took joint Best Speaker Award and I took joint Best Evaluator.
First something about John's task
Facilitating Discussion: The Problem Solving DiscussionObjectives: a) Discuss … Continue Reading ››
The theme of this meeting was New Year resolutions one months on. To keep with the theme as Table-topics master I looked up pages from Internet on resolutions and goals etc. I then used a text analyzer to generate keywords. I removed a few that were silly. Originally I intended to let … Continue Reading ››
Tip of the Week
On my recent visit to Toastmasters Bilbao I was really interested that each week on their Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/ToastmastersBilbao) they publish a tip of the … Continue Reading ››
Anniversary Logo
I was Toastmaster of the Evening for one of the big nights in Cranfield Speakers’ year. The Open Demonstration Event is for the benefit … Continue Reading ››
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Maxime presented a very well thought out, prepared, and delivered Table-topics session last night. I was very hard-pressed to evaluate it and find strong recommendations.
Maxime had picked up Maria's (Toastmaster of the Evening) theme on World Seafaring day (image credit: http://www.imo.org/About/Events/dayoftheseafarer/Pages/Day-of-the-Seafarer-2014.aspx ) to set us all on a nautical adventure. Jim had to … Continue Reading ››
Not Capt. Jack Sparrow's compass, but mine!! Life is a daring adventure. This my place to push at boundaries!