by Linda | Jul 26, 2018 | On A Point Posts, People Making History
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...
by Linda | Jul 26, 2018 | On A Point Posts, People Making History
One day, in my first few weeks as a Toastmaster I had been struggling with the commitment of my fellow members in my club. I approached my Club President at the time Priscilla Chinhengo, DTM and I asked her “What reference(s) in Toastmasters could we use to solve our...
by Linda | Jul 26, 2018 | On A Point Posts
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...
by Linda | Jul 26, 2018 | On A Point Posts
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...
by Linda | Jul 26, 2018 | On A Point Posts
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...