BRADDELL HEIGHTS ADVANCED NEWSLETTER

 In a Facebook forum somebody said that the five to seven minute speech length is too contricting and does not fit longer speeches required in the real world. 1 In the real world time limits are often imposed. If the building's caretaker wants to go home he might switch off the lights or even close the gates and lock you in, or a pub could close its car park and lock in your cars. At one meeting the children for a ballet class about to use the room walked in and started changing into their ballet clothes. When i was speaking on radio, the programme ended with the on the hour news. The ten o clock news was not going to start at ten past ten to please me. The programme controller switched off our microphones and switched to the newsroom. On another occasion, the fir alarm went off during a speech. The speaker had 30 seconds to finish his sentence before people started jumping up, calling to each other to leave.

  You can have your evaluation evaluated as one of your projects in Level one of any Pathway. You can speak to your speaker when you are evaluating and remind them to give sources. If not, afterwards or even during the break you can check on statistics and sources. For example, I looked up some statistics on job interviews. Useful Websites https://jobdescription-library.com/job-interview-statistics Please share links to your favourite posts. https://www.businessinsider.com/job-seekers-have-to-apply-for-27-jobs-for-every-interview-survey-finds?r=US&IR=T

 Harrovians was the first Toastmasters club I joined in the UK in 2004. i was introduced to toastmasters International Harrovian Speakers club by my good, long-standing friend Indra who was talking to me Harrow writers Circle. When I showed him my book on Wedding Speeches & Toasts, he immediately said, with glee, 'you must come along to Toastmasters!' This week on Monday 19th July 2022, Harrovians had to switch their planned in person meeting to wholly online because of the heatwave, unprecedented temperatures of 32 degrees Celsius, which is nearly 90 % F. Hottest night.  Road are melting. Cars are overheating and catching fire. Fields are burning. Crops are being destroyed. Smoke is blowing across roads. Harvests are being destroyed by fire. Heat is killing plants and fruit and vegetables and crops are destroyed by too many insects and rats.  Railway lines are buckling.  Adults are diving into rivers and drowning. Children and the elderly are overcome by heat. A...

  Titanic sinking. Public domain photo due to age, 1912. Toastmasters gives clubs points for recruiting new members and shuts down clubs which don't have enough members.  The membership secretary should give a little speech about the advantages of joining the club, the benefits, after the visitors have been invited to speak. The initiation ceremony asks new members to commit to attending meetings, when possible.  However, you should not be pleased when members leave 'because they weren't attending and pulling their weight'. You should be ensuring meetings are so welcoming and fun that they want to attend. Or that they can see replays and talk to you between meetings. If the mentor is negative, or demanding, maybe new members should be given an encouraging and patient mentor, and the stricter mentor who wants dedicated speakers should be allocated as mentor to the advanced speakers. If we are an advanced club, expecting regular attendance, then a leaving member should be...

  Many companies are giving initial job interviews online and jobseekers have to be prepared to appear professional online, not as silhouettes, or with half their face missing, or such bad sound that they can't be heard, or interrupted by children and animals. Toastmasters is training for the real world and companies are increasingly doing business online.

 My PR plans What I have done so far: 1 GOODWILL VISITS I visited other clubs to create goodwill so that when I ask for favours such as role holders at meetings people know me and BHA and feel obliged to help out. (Our previous treasurer said he became treasurer of BHA to help me because I had helped him by supporting his club at physical meetings. I recall going to their Xmas party, giving at least one speech, giving at least one evaluation, and giving an educational session. 2 FACEBOOK PHOTOS I make sure I am in a lot of other club's photos. I remind other clubs to take a photo for Facebook. 3 TABLE TOPICS VOLUNTEER - FOR FACEBOOK PHOTOS I speak in table topics. If I win, I write up what I said on Facebook and praise that club and try to find a reason to mention BHA. For example, BH2 is a sister club to BHA, meeting at the same venue the cc on a different Saturday. They meet on such and such a day, whilst we meet on the third Saturday afternoon at 2pm. I show the photo of my ribb...

  New President in July 2022 Mohamad is good with photos. I ask him to put on the Facebook page for BHA our latest meeting photos. He asks me to add him on the admin. When I go into the Facebook settings, I find that I am the page editor, but not an admin. I cannot add others as admin. The admin people are from two years ago. I had never realised that admin were additional  to and separate from the editor. So now we are trying to find these people who may have moved on or changed their addresses. Our new plan is to make all the committee admin, so that everybody can add photos. If I am busy, the PR is not solely my responsibility.  When the committee changes at the end of next year, or at any time during the year, anybody available can make changes.  The moral is, check your