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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

What is Leadership?

by Linda Li Linda Li gave an interesting speech about leadership and its potential misconceptions. She used her earliest concept of leadership (learned from her family) and showed, using specific examples from her own life, the process by which she shifted her perception to the leadership model she

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Richmond Fosters Excellence

by Robin Spano Toastmasters gets a lot right. They know how to encourage, motivate, and teach members to find their best speaking voice. Contest season highlights these strengths with a bang. On April 5, 2011, the 17 clubs in Division E, covering all of Richmond and Delta BC, met to battle it out in

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Awesome Contest Night

by Patrick McCrea On the 8th of March, Richmond Toastmasters had two dazzling contests. The first was the Evaluation Contest. Each evaluator had two minutes and thirty seconds to evaluate a guest speaker. We were lucky to have Lorna Boyle as our guest speaker. She talked about her late parents – a h

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

by May Soo-Tveita If you’re hosting an event, you might find yourself with some down time. Maybe it’s because of a technical glitch; maybe a scheduled speaker hasn’t shown up yet. It’s your job as host to keep the show going on. Here’s how Richmond Toastmasters‘ VP Membership, May Soo-Tveita, kept u

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Helping UBC Students Shine

On Tuesday, February 8, Richmond Toastmasters was given a cool opportunity: The Sauder School of Business (UBC’s Business School) asked if we would help coach their students and give them tips to improve their speeches for their upcoming public speaking competition. We abandoned our usual format, an

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Best of the Best

by Freddy Irani Here’s a cool first for Richmond Toastmasters’ blog – an audio recording of a speech. Instead of writing his speech out in words, Freddy wrote down bullet points and practiced with his iPhone until he got it right. The audio clip above is his best practice run. The real speech was ev

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Only A Mother Would Know

contributed by Dona Matthews One day my mother was out, and my dad was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 1/2 years old. Someone had given me a little ‘tea set’ as a gift, and it was one of my favorite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news [...]

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Peruvian Purgatory

by Sylvia Orellana Each Richmond Toastmasters meeting has a Jokemaster – someone whose role is to give us some laughs – but they have to be clean ones. For many members, finding clean jokes can be a challenge. Sylvia, our club president this year, found one that meets both criteria in spades. Thanks

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Taking It Live

by Robin Spano November brought a series of public speaking challenges relating to my mystery novel, Dead Politician Society. I haven’t aced them all – but I’ve learned from them. In this meeting with David Miller, the former Toronto mayor who inspired me to write a book that opened with a dead mayo

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Richmond Toastmasters · 1Y ago

Remembering Dad…”Swinging on a Star”

by Lorna Boyle Lorna delivered this moving speech at Deltones Toastmasters. She is a favourite guest at Richmond Toastmasters – both in real life, and here on this blog. Lorna has her own blog, you can find her on Twitter, or listen to her smooth-as-silk podcast. I got a call from my brother, Mike l

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