TDKtalks ... Public Speaking ... Leadership Podcast
Resource for Speech and Leadership Development. This is an educational podcast and blog about public speaking, leadership and personal development. Tips Tricks Interviews and Insight into becoming a better speaker, leader and presenter
“ To be a good leader, one also has to be an exceptional follower ” What? Why? How ? Many of us within Toastmasters are capable of being top-notch leaders, but not everyone can sit in such delegated spotlight during a specific period. Take our 7 club executives found in every Toastmaster Club – [...]
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This may not be rocket science, but you do NOT have to be a WCPS (World Champion of Public Speaking ) to deliver a “message”, educate, motivate, inspire or call others to action. From all the competing speeches I have judged or witnessed, I realized I was building a bond to specific speakers in my [...]
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81 Semi-finalists – 9 Finalists – ONE Winner ! How did your favorite speaker do? Did they have the Confidence? How did they speak? Well, my favorite didn’t win & my heart couldn’t have dropped more. I wasn’t present and wish I could have been. Remember – Nobody Loses in this Speech Competition ! So [...]
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For the longest time my family and I used our old grocery bags to line our kitchen under-the-counter garbage can. This was effecient for several reasons. Long before recycling came into vogue, it allowed useful dispense of our growing collection of grocery bags. Why not make them do something useful on their “1 last trip [...]
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Have you ever wished for something, aloud or mentally? With the onslaught of summer, I began with my 2 most revered; 1) ” I wish I could lose more weight, so I can be lighter for cycling “ 2) ” I wish I can do more cycling “ Well, without knowing it, Faith was working [...]
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After watching the events of the closing days of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games from Whistler/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, I had an awakening. These olympic events are the physical manifestations of leadership development theories. Some of you may have already known that, but after hours of watching, the light above my head came on and [...]
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Somewhere, in my past, I came across a discussion stemming from the question, “What is mankinds’ greatest weakness?” Well, lo and behold, there are several, if not many. But the question above just asks for 1 …… ONE …. the “all inclusive”. If there could be 1 that forms the basis for all our other [...]
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How realistic or true is real? How real and actual, is hypothetical? We all have stories to tell about “real life” situations we experienced. When we recite such experiences in our stories or speeches, how close can we replicate the actual events with bogus names, to protect the particpants, before we are attacked by the [...]
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Well, after so many years of subscribing to great e-mail subscription offers, I finally starting UN-subscribing, deleting, and collating them, atleast the ones I want to continue, in an “aggregator”, for lack of a better word. Specifically I am talking about the insurmountable blog e-mail subscriptions we all subscribe to allowing us to get updates in [...]
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Change – good or bad ?
by admin on September 6, 2010 · 0 comments
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Much has been spoken of change, and how good change is. It take good leadership, to manage change. Developing good leadership is a worthy skill. It is said and believed that we are more resistent to change solely due to the aging process. In cases it is true. But other times I think it’s not [...]
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