Building Resilience

Seven Resilience Building Tools to Try Life can be tough. Everyone faces challenges and difficulties at some point. What matters is how you deal with them. Some people seem to have an innate resilience to weather any storm, while others struggle to cope with even the slightest setback. There is good news, though. Resilience is…

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Resilience

The Key to Your Success Starts with Resilience Resilience is a critical component of success. Without it, you would never be able to overcome the challenges and setbacks that life inevitably throws your way. Of course, everyone faces difficulties and obstacles, but how you deal with them determines whether or not you’ll be successful. Many…

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Evaluate Your Speaking Skills

Evaluate Your Speaking Skills I  have been going through some of my old Toastmasters items and I came across an old Communication and Leadership manual.  As I was reading through it I found a checklist – statements about evaluating where you see yourself as to where you want to be.  I thought I would share…

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Impromptu Speaking

Impromptu Speaking For many of us it’s the worst case scenario – suddenly having to deliver an impromptu presentation.  Maybe your boss just asked you to say a few words about the project you are working on.  Maybe you are at a networking meeting and have been asked to introduce yourself.  Suddenly your throat is…

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Stretching Yourself

Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone   Recently I decided to participate in a challenge that was designed to help people step out of their comfort zones in a number of different ways. There were 21 challenges from Activating Google Analytics (Challenge #1 and one that I decided to tackle) to Hosting a Virtual Summit…

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Three Essential Skills

Three Essential Skills by Sina Marasco DTM Eastern Division Director, District 73 I came across a post by Sina Marasco tonight and it caught my attention – Three Essential Skills – all of which can be learned in Toastmasters.  Effective communication, Evaluation and Planning. “Here are three essential skills I wish I had learnt at school…

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Body Language

Body Language (Non-Verbal) vs. Verbal Communication Communicating with others is one of those basic life skills we all have. But if you want to communicate effectively with others, a good starting point is to understand the importance of not only verbal communication but nonverbal as well. Some researchers have claimed that somewhere between 60 to…