Nancy Duarte decomposes visually the "I have a dream" speech by MLK

Original post at:
http://blog.duarte.com/2011/01/communicate-like-mlk-and-change-the-world/http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com

We had no chairs!

  

We had a small logistic problem before starting our meeting on Tuesday 18th, we had no chairs!

Can you imagine the situation? Having a full room, many guests, and no chairs!

 

Well, but we are Toastmasters. We don't sit, we act!

And our SAA Phil and his team put their strong arms together and in no time, everything was sorted, and we could sit and enjoy the meeting.

 

As a President, I had decided to change a little the format of the meeting, and apart of the usual welcoming and guest introduction I gave the Club Business information beforehand. Which I believe it is important to reinforce here, please guys put in your Agenda:

Club Contest is on March 15th and we need Contestants!!!!

 

Be brave guys and challenge yourselves. Go for it!

Talk to our VPE, Rose Chong, to get the details about it.

 

After that, we had our Table Topics section, where Daniel Juling, challenged his "victims" with the Wikileaks subject.

Should the creators of Wikileaks be treated and chased as terrorists? Is Wikileaks a good or a bad thing? 

Should we not live with more transparency? Well, there is still a lot to talk about the subject.

Then, the prepared speeches:

Great! Amazing speeches!

Ricardo Tellez inspired us and gave us more hope to our own future.

He informed us that it is scientifically proved that we can change our brain patterns!

You can replace bad habits by good ones!

Now you know! We have the power to change our inner world!

Start planning guys! Take your New Year's resolution list and look at it very seriously.

It can happen! Depends on you!

 

2nd Speech - Dima gave his speech about the Toastmaster World seen as from a Company perspective.

He showed us much more than what we already know.

And, I'm sure many of us have asked ourselves one day, how can a non-profitable organisation work so well, and with volunteers!!!!???

He also showed us their "numbers/profits" considered as "rainy days savings"!

WOW! There is so much to learn about the Toastmasters world. 

I would love to own a company who works so well, where people is committed, happy, and  is profitable!!!! Who wouldn't?

Thank you Dima! Another area to learn on Toastmasters.

 

3rd Speech - An AMAZING Icebreaker!

We couldn't believe it was Tobias Rodrigues first speech.

We were amazed how he told us about 3 very important times of his life using 3 examples of Sandcastles to illustrated them clearly.

Florian Mueck, his evaluator was very impressed and thanked him for becoming part of Prestigious Speakers team, saying that for sure he will contribute a lot to everyone's growth!

Well done Tobias!

 

4th Speech - Mireia Vives

Mireia is an artist, a painter. And she told us how all sort of arts have always been part of her life.

She compared the two great painters Picasso and Degas, and explained that despite their difference in style, they had something in common, which is something she says all sort of arts and artists have in common. Which is to ability to see beyond reality and express themselves through that.

It was very interesting. And she is definitely passionate about it.

 

I won't go through the evaluations, I will only say they were quite constructive, positive, motivational.

Many points were given to the speakers in order to improve for their next speech.

 

But we had a voting:

Best Table Topics Speaker - Peter Mckenzie

Best Speaker - Tobias Rodrigues

Best Evaluator - Florian Mueck

 

The meeting finished with the guests one word feedback on the meeting.

And among all, the ones I can remember are: "Amazing, Excellent, Entertaining, Fun, Enjoyable...." and more.

 

Well, I hope you could get a grip of it!

 

See you next Feb 1st.

 

Cheers

 

Tulia

--
"Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity. W. Bennis " http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com

Home is where you want it to be!



Or home is where your heart is? May be where you get your money? Twenty answers mean twenty views! With the word of the day, “home”, Phil, the Toastmaster of the day, opened the communication part of the first 2011 year PS Meeting, on Tuesday 4^th January 2011.

There were some old and new guests, from UK, USA, Madeira, Bulgaria, Argentina, Germany and Barcelona.

The Table Topic Master, Gunter, proposed a very interesting exercise: imagine you are in year 2015. You remember you were living in Barcelona in year 2010. After those 15 years, what do you remember from those days?

Great speeches by Florian, explaining what happens when the boss has just reported to his employees that the bonus expected for the year is gone because one of the directors has disappeared with the company money… and Dale presenting the new TM club in Barcelona, the BCN Pride Toastmaster club. Both of them advanced speakers, so evaluations was a difficult task even for experienced evaluators as Markus and Edith.

And Phil, the one man band of the day (TM and SAA), closed the meeting after some nice gifts from the guests about the meeting: “Very exciting”, “nice meeting”, “exciting meeting”, “enjoying  a lot”, “interesting experience”, “enjoyed role play”, “Prestigious”…some new words for the “PS flattery words bank”!

Till the next,

Alvaro   http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com

Toastmasters Spring Retreat 2011 // Save the date

Download now or preview on posterous

savethedate.pdf (80 KB)

hi all,
 
here comes your personal reyes gift... 
jeff and i are looking forward to organizing yet another milestone of friendship and self-improvement for YOU!!! 
so - what are you waiting for... CONFIRM NOW & see you in el puig de la balma!!!

YES, I'm definitely in
NO, unfortunately I cannot join

more information soon...

jeff & florian

http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com

Message in a bottle



December falls always into our lives suddenly and surprisingly; and the last meeting of the year, on the Tuesday 21^st December 2010, is there. With double enthusiasm, because the performance has two acts, the first at Casa Orlandai with the regular meeting, and the second , the Christmas  Party at, La Cave, a nice restaurant and wine cellar in the  neighborhood.

The regular party was governed by the symbol X.  The X, the double XX and the triple XXX can have a number of meanings, like a wildcard, can be adapted to a number of situations, as the Toastmaster of the Day, Florian, explained.

Irene, new at the role of Table Topic Master, stimulated our imagination with various challenging situations where Table Topic speakers had to put into scene (put a // ..air controller…torero.. football player.. opera diva..toast master…. president of government..// …. in your life!!)

Speeches by Alvaro, selling hot air balloons, Alex, with his Guinness record (not official) of time to prepare a Competent Communicator project, and Rose, our banker, making clear that bank services are always cheap.

The second act was the most important, the Christmas party at La Cave, a very nice place and an attractive discovery for most of us. The game there (besides an excellent dinner) was playing with bottles, but only with the bottles, not with its content! There are so many bottles of all categories at La Cave, magnificently organized and described by poetical sentences! Topic Table impromptus revealed the hidden relationship of the speakers and the bottles.

Next year will be a good year for toastmasters, no doubt. This is the advantage of the activities where you only can improve!

Till the next,

Alvaro http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com

Follow us via Twitter!

Prestigious Speakers Barcelona is now on Twitter!
All news in the blog will be sync to the Twitter account @psbarcelona

Trying to reach you all,
VPPRhttp://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com