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tal Flexibility Workshops Review
John Anderson, ACS, ALS & Kay Watson, ACB, CL
This year, members working towards their DTM have been given the opportunity to present
Success/Leader or Success/Communication workshops at District events. The presenters are
challenged with reviewing the materials provided by Toastmasters International and
delivering their presentations in a limited timeframe. The ability to tailor a program to fulfill
the requirements of the project and deliver a succinct, useful presentation tests the
speaker's creativity and resourcefulness. Below are comments from John Anderson and Kay
Watson who presented Mental Flexibility, Parts 1 and 2, recently at the TLI conference.
Mental Flexibility— with her. I chose to do all the exercises, but
Part 1: If I were to spent less time on each. To prepare, I read
condense the content the coordinator and participants'
down to the essential workbooks and reviewed the 12
points, I would PowerPoint slides. I rewrote the script to
mention the shorten it. We had a packed classroom
following: The Part 1 with 46 participants. Given the facts of
of Building Thinking having half the recommended time, and a
Power is Mental very large group, we sped through some
Flexibility. I offered it as a 90-minute dense material and several opportunities
workshop at the Toastmaster Leadership for what could have been longer group
Institute on Saturday, January 17 at participation.—John Anderson
Wilsonville High School. This was the first
Toastmaster workshop I have offered at Mental Flexibility—Part 2:
the district level, although I have
conducted workshops and classes of 1 to 3 The goal of this
hours at Chambers of Commerce, Small workshop was to
Business Development Centers and online stimulate ones ability to
over the years. The manual recommends think about ideas and
175 minutes for the workshop, but we had problem solving from a
90 minutes. It was suggested that I cut more imaginative
some of the numerous exercises. I spoke perspective. As a first
to a Toastmaster who offered the program step we discussed the
at the June 2014 TLI, and she said she difference between convergent thinking
skipped over some parts so she could and divergent thinking. While convergent
concentrate on sections which resonated thinking is useful in building community
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John Anderson, ACS, ALS & Kay Watson, ACB, CL
This year, members working towards their DTM have been given the opportunity to present
Success/Leader or Success/Communication workshops at District events. The presenters are
challenged with reviewing the materials provided by Toastmasters International and
delivering their presentations in a limited timeframe. The ability to tailor a program to fulfill
the requirements of the project and deliver a succinct, useful presentation tests the
speaker's creativity and resourcefulness. Below are comments from John Anderson and Kay
Watson who presented Mental Flexibility, Parts 1 and 2, recently at the TLI conference.
Mental Flexibility— with her. I chose to do all the exercises, but
Part 1: If I were to spent less time on each. To prepare, I read
condense the content the coordinator and participants'
down to the essential workbooks and reviewed the 12
points, I would PowerPoint slides. I rewrote the script to
mention the shorten it. We had a packed classroom
following: The Part 1 with 46 participants. Given the facts of
of Building Thinking having half the recommended time, and a
Power is Mental very large group, we sped through some
Flexibility. I offered it as a 90-minute dense material and several opportunities
workshop at the Toastmaster Leadership for what could have been longer group
Institute on Saturday, January 17 at participation.—John Anderson
Wilsonville High School. This was the first
Toastmaster workshop I have offered at Mental Flexibility—Part 2:
the district level, although I have
conducted workshops and classes of 1 to 3 The goal of this
hours at Chambers of Commerce, Small workshop was to
Business Development Centers and online stimulate ones ability to
over the years. The manual recommends think about ideas and
175 minutes for the workshop, but we had problem solving from a
90 minutes. It was suggested that I cut more imaginative
some of the numerous exercises. I spoke perspective. As a first
to a Toastmaster who offered the program step we discussed the
at the June 2014 TLI, and she said she difference between convergent thinking
skipped over some parts so she could and divergent thinking. While convergent
concentrate on sections which resonated thinking is useful in building community
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