As much as I really enjoy shooting my mouth off giving speeches, I am really starting to thrive on the evaluation process. In so many ways, people treat listening as a passive process, when in fact, it is active. Evaluating is an excellent reminder of this.
In my quest to obtain Toastmasters excellence – and my ACB (Advanced Communicator Bronze) – by the new year, I have been accepting and volunteering for any and all possible speaking roles. I have volunteered for 2 last minute speaking roles 2 weeks in a row, and today I find myself in an interesting predicament: [...]
General Evaluator at HNTM, Toastmaster at SRTM. What a challenge to be the chair and only have the agenda about 25% before the meeting… and to convince people to take a number of roles for the first time
Last week, I learned that practicing a speech with the GGS (Guelph Guild of Storytellers) prior to a Toastmasters delivery was a wise choice of precedence. I presented speech #5 in the Storytelling Manual: Bringing History to Life, entitled “The Apple of Discord”. In this case, I had no time to prepare and polish as [...]