On April 26, we had the honor to invite our newly-elected Division G Governor Keli Yen to evaluate our meeting. Below is a summary of the comments she made that evening. I found them words of wisdom, so I strongly urge you to read them and reflect upon your Toastmasters experience.
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1. Show your personality: Every moment on the stage can be a moment of self-realization. For example, even when taking a functionary role, we can restyle our briefing and add their own personality to the formulaic briefing of the rules.
2. In order to enhance the speech/meeting/club quality, we need to start from ourselves. (1) Self-reflection: No matter which role we take in the meeting, we should reflect on what inspires us and what we want to achieve, and put them to the role we take. (2) Be truthful to ourselves by knowing what's the reality of our performance. For example, ask ourselves questions like "Did I come to the meeting earlier?"
3. Relentless relationship building: Don't simply rely on our mentor to reach us or the mentor/mentee system to motivate us. Instead, let ourselves be our own source of motivation, and each and every one of the members can be our mentor.
Conclusion: Get to know ourselves: Know what we want and know what the reality is. Utilize the tools/resources available at Toastmasters.
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I feel particularly strongly about Keli's second comment. For me, I've always considered being well-prepared is the minimum requirement when I need to give a speech. (I know, if I don't perform well, I'm my own harshest critic.) Being well-prepared is my expectation of myself. How about you? What's yours of yourselves? Let's all think about what we want to gain from Toastmasters, and what we need to do to achieve our goals.
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