Month: July 2018

Bleeps and Blunders

My club has a rich culture of allowing the club committee to organize our speech contest as a club committee team project. We did this every year, twice a year. The year that I was president of my club I had a fairly inexperienced committee. Contest season was fast...

Leadership Opportunities – Learning by doing

The tagline is “Where leaders are made”. It is surely not as simple as “just add water”, nor is it a complex recipe of rare-earth minerals combined at high pressures and volcanic temperatures. But there is a method, and it is fool-proof (just look at me!). Some people...

Presentation Corner – Electronic Presentations

I guess more has been written and commented on the use of Power Point Presentations in the last 20 years than almost any other Presentation Tool introduced over the same period. The Reason – Simple – Microsoft Built a Tool to make Presentations simpler for us all and...

Mentoring Moments

Aletta Rochat once said you should accumulate as many mentors as possible, each an expert in a particular skillset excelling at. She didn’t quite say it like this, but you get the gist?! I thought it was going to be quite difficult to get surrounded by such experts...