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“Achieve Your Greatness !” – Isn’t that a monumental goal of leadership and achievement for many of us in our lifes’ journey? We all should strive to achieve and become “Achievers”. Several weeks ago while attending our Calgary Advanced Toastmasters (CATS) meeting, we had a guest which I quickly connected with. What caught my attention [...]

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Today, in my feature segment, “Let’s Get to Know …” a special interview with a Toastmaster who has not only accomplished alot (she is near her 2nd DTM in her 5 years of being a Toastmaster) but is pulling together a fantastic TEAM with District wide goals for 2012-13. I introduce to you, Doris Henn [...]

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How to manage projects – Project Management 101. Today I do an interview with John Popoff, PMP about an upcoming workshop he will be facilitating and presenting in our Calgary area of District 42. One of John’s mentors in project management is Dream Team Consulting. John will be presenting, as his high-performance leadership (HPL) project [...]

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DTM This year – 2011 -2012 is the inaugural year following the major Rebranding of International, where Leadership has taken focus. Several of our local Division leaders have taken the lead and successfully held noteable events, focusing on members achieving their own DTM designation. Once such was “Destination DTM” spearheaded by our Division J Governor, [...]

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Being an INNERpreneur sometimes means conceiving, driving and managing a project, from the ground up. From a relaxing evening read of a monthly newspaper, I read about 2 young ladies, local to me, who are behind this project, the Africa Bike Project. They met, for the first time in 2009, while on a flight to [...]

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It’s not often that I meet a Toastmaster Who is Doing Amazing Things with their speaking and leadership abilities. But last year, as Area Governor D42-J46, I visited Literally Speaking, one of my Area 46, Division J, District 42 clubs and first heard this lady present one of her manual speeches. Within moments, I realized, [...]

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What are you PASSIONATE about? Everyone has a passion. One of mine is Speaking and Presenting Skills. My other one is helping others to speak, present and lead better. I also like interviewing and writing. The result is this,  my podcast series – TDKtalks.com Originally it was solely my High Performance Leadership Project or HPL. [...]

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Have you heard of a Life Coach? Well today I interview Ms. Nicky Kriel of www.nickykriel.com. She is a life coach based in the UK and provides personal coaching using NLP which is Neurolinguistic Programming. She also writes interesting content in her blog. She has formally been offering her services on her website for 2 [...]

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In this show I interview Marvin Henry, DTM,  Chief Judge for Division C of District 42. Henry has been a Toastmaster since 1995. He is past-president of the Igniters Club, VP Education of Calgary Advanced Club (CATS). Marvin has held several leadership positions in Toastmasters. October is the month for our Fall club, area, division [...]

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Are you an innerpreneur? Do you use or need Strategic Marketing? Can you make use of Creative Communications? In this show I interview Ms. Tara Joyce, an innerpreneur, strategic marketer, and creative communications consultant. Find her at elasticmind.ca Tara provides independent value-driven business owners with strategic marketing and creative communications support and inspiration. Not only is [...]

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Show #017 – Spring Means Convention Time

December 2, 2010
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I am joined by my special guest co-host and Competent Leadership mentor,  Christina. We open the show by discussing our activities and features we took in at our District 42 Spring Convention. So what goes on at a Spring Convention? Well, quite a bit. Every Toastmaster on the globe knows it as the face off [...]

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Show #016 – A Mentor YOU Can Rely On – Interview With Ms. Dianna Booher

December 1, 2010
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Having a mentor YOU can rely on; Toastmasters and non-Toastmasters alike. In todays’ interview, I talk with Ms. Dianna Booher of Booher Consultants. Her website is www.booher.com Being connected with someone who is sincere about YOU achieving YOUR SUCCESS is a good start. She is someone you can trust to help srengthen your leadership skills. My [...]

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Show #006 – District 42 Spring Convention 2009 – Interviews

May 10, 2010
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District 42 Spring Convention 2009 from Saskatoon, CANADA On location for the District 42 Spring Convention 2009 from Saskatoon, SA, Canada. I do live interviews with one of the educational presenters, capture candid thoughts from most of the speech/evaluation contestants and hi-lite the show with an interview with our Toastmasters International President, Ms. Jana Barnhill. [...]

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Show #005 – The New Competent Leadership Manual – An Interview

May 10, 2010
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The New Competent Leadership Manual – An Interview – Tip of the Show You might also like Show #007 – 7 Executives in 7 Minutes – Which Club Exec Should YOU Be ?

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Mentoring, Coaching, Tutoring – Precursor to Podcast #16 – An Interview with Ms. Dianna Booher

April 8, 2010

Having been in the land of midlife for awhile now, one of the many reflections I have is on the topic of mentoring, mentorship and coaching in general. It started in thought within Toastmasters, but spread quickly to the boundaries of life itself. Many people who are successful (definition bears a superflous discussion in itself) [...]

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Show #5 – The New Competent Leadership Manual – An Interview

April 6, 2009

Show #5 is now out. Its my first interview with my local “go to” Toastmaster on everything about the Competent Leadership (CL) Manual. Christina is an accomplished Toastmaster who is currently Area Governor for Area 10, Division G, District 42. She belongs to 2 clubs; Fluor Communicators and an advanced club, MVP Toastmasters. Christina has [...]

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