How to Win at the International Speech Contests
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How to send your MOTs to District?
So you have done your Moments of Truth session. What next? You have to submit it to the District. Typically this is a simple two step process: Fill this form and attach the consolidated Excel file - https://bit.ly/D41_MOTSend a mail to District PQD (DTM Ranjit Acharya), keeping Area Director and Division Director marked on it. Short and sweet, isn't it? Until next time, this is Mohit signing off.
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How to Assign Club Proxy for Toastmasters
This is an every year affair and Toastmasters know they have to keep coming back to it. It's best therefore to make a note it here especially if you're an Area Director or Club President. For assigning the club proxy, the following flyer explains the steps very well. It's either for the club President or Secretary to login and start from Step 1 in the image. Idea in normal situations is to give the District Director the authority to act as proxy unless in the rare circumstance that you are attending the meeting and know of the candidates for voting. Until next time
Students, Toastmasters
How To Prepare Word of The Day At the Last Minute
As a Toastmaster, you often get a last minute request to take up the grammarian role. Whilst everything else required for the role is doable, the word of the day sometimes makes me nervous. I have maintained a diary and app and done everything under the Sun to have something handy, but then, in the last minute rush, its either too much information that makes it a problem or too little. You can always use the dictionary also, but then it's not just sharing a new word and it's meaning. It's much more than that, you have to be able to make the audience register it and make it
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How To Give A Useful Speech Evaluation
I have already covered this in a previous blog but just to test it out, I applied this technique in the last club meeting. Voila, it worked, and I won not only the Best Evaluator among four extremely talented evaluators but also the table topics. Well, that's because the table topics was different this time. Our VP Education was the Table Topics master and she's an innovator. So, she played a three minute Priyanka Chopra speech, which she then asked the Table Topics Speaker's to evaluate, based on her selected areas such as Share one Commendation, a Recommendation, and Summ
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How To Structure an Evaluation Contest Speech
What's most important as an evaluator is to have an evaluation framework ready. It could be different for you and me, and it could be different even for you at different occasions. But the main point is to have a framework ready. As a matter of fact, the same thing applies to impromptu (Table Topic) speeches as well. If you have that you could use your initial 15-20 seconds to put the topic in that framework, before giving it a go. While one can simply say that the Beginning, Body and Close (BBC) is already there, then why does one need anything else. Well, the reason is th