As a follow up to my blogpost: “Dumbing my Smartphone” I thought of reframing it as my Toastmasters CC9 speech. CC9 is all about persuading your audience to take some action or change their beliefs. I attempted to ask the audience to do away with their phone’s notifications. The title was inspired by the TVContinue reading “Toastmasters Speech 9 : Black Mirror”
International Speech Contest – Who Am I?
I recently participated in Toastmasters’ International Speech Contest. This starts at your club level, then Area, then Division, then District and then Internationally. I won at my club level, surprisingly. And then moved to participate in Area level at IIM Bangalore. Although, I didn’t win there but I did good, as per my own expectations.Continue reading “International Speech Contest – Who Am I?”
Toastmasters Speech 8 : You're Fired!
Transcript of my 8th speech in Toastmasters. This uses Visual Aids. Aids means help (please!). Toastmaster of the Day, Fellow Toastmasters & Guests! Good Afternoon! Before starting, I would request you to please spend few seconds on this slide. Thank you! So! How many of you have seen this around? No, I’m not talkingContinue reading “Toastmasters Speech 8 : You're Fired!”
How PowerPoint became my favorite tool to make posters?
We don’t ask the sewing machine’s brand when we see a beautiful dress. We don’t ask the oven’s make when we relish a lovely pizza. We don’t ask which pen was used to write the manuscript when we read an un-put-down-able classic. But we do ask the make on certain occasions. For instance, when weContinue reading “How PowerPoint became my favorite tool to make posters?”
Toastmasters Speech # 7 ‘Anonymous’
Greetings citizens of the World! Speech 7 in Toastmasters is ‘Research your topic’ where one has to search and research about some topic and deliver a 5-7 minutes Speech. I recently had watched We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) on Netflix which gave me this idea to speak about ‘Anonymous’ the hacker +Continue reading “Toastmasters Speech # 7 ‘Anonymous’”
Toastmasters Speech # 6 ‘Stranger Things’
This is the script of my CC6 Vocal Variety Speech in Toastmasters: Who all here believe in God? And who all believe in the “other entity”? Rest are atheists here or just shy so that ‘they’ don’t listen to you? Fellow Toastmasters welcomed Guests and those “guests” who are not welcomed but are hereContinue reading “Toastmasters Speech # 6 ‘Stranger Things’”
Toastmasters Speech # 5 ‘S.H.I.T. It’s about time!’
This is my 5th Speech in Toastmasters from CC manual: After World War 2, when Japan was trying to rebuild their economy, THEY WERE BROKE, BUT NOT BROKEN. They wanted to make the best use of the resources they still had. So one of their industrialists, Toyota, devised a technique called as ‘Just-in-time’ or ‘JIT’Continue reading “Toastmasters Speech # 5 ‘S.H.I.T. It’s about time!’”