"Communication is always going beyond limits, surpassing the own barriers”... opened Marie, the “Toastmaster of the Day” at the meeting of the Tuesday 30th November 2010.
From time to time a November Tuesday in Barcelona, is a “November Tuesday”: it was a grey, cold, wet, muggy… Not usual in Barcelona, but gives more the look of a cosmopolitan city and “place of order”, with the regional center right party winning Catalan Parliament elections two days before, and the Barça beating 5-0 its natural enemy the day before. Number 5 is a magic number in different scenarios: the right number to seat at a table, the time for a good speech, the minimum level to pass an exam, and the goals that from time to time the Barça gets!
Marie prepared such a nice agenda with color, pictures, animation, info about Table Topics, speech projects; the agenda with all details of the meeting can be found at the TM easySpeak site, and little can be added.
Looking at people progress is stimulating. As Edith, the District Toastmaster of the year, said, what makes happier to the experienced TM is to see how the new ones flow from the Ice Breaker through the CC manual, improving the stay, the performance and the message. This, the evolution, can be perceived only through the permanent and constant participation in the meetings; is like a film, a movie, where characters are improving at any scene. Slightly different for guest, who get a more static image, a picture of an instant. They like it, they have good feelings, and they get the intuition that will be able to deeply appreciate it when they are able to put together several pictures. It’s the members’ task to turn the guest into a fan. Adjectives for the “PS flattery words bank”: impressive, brilliant, inspiring, enriching, excellent, educational, fun, amazing, humorous…
Next meeting is scheduled Tuesday 7th December, a magic and working day within two bank holidays that makes a magic week within a magic month. For Spanish people, it means “Puente”, all closed. For international TM people we will see what it means, what part of the spirit wins, the northern professional and grey working December day or the sunny southern free winter day. People get used easily to good habits...
Till the next
Alvarohttp://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com
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