Things to remember: Every single thing you do is marketing. Nothing you do is immune from the impression you make. Sweat the small stuff and the big stuff will follow.
Monthly Archive
for: ‘February, 2012’
Week #8 – Wafermasters
For this week’s speech, I drove up to Camas, Washington to visit Wafermasters at WaferTech. The experience was great from the moment I walked in the door. The facility is very modern and the people very friendly. The Toastmasters group I was speaking to was a small, yet fun and lively group. I gave my …
Week #7 – Jantzen Toastmasters
What a fun group to visit! The only problem I see with this club is they meet at 6:30am. And I forgot to ask them why their club name was Jantzen when they weren’t located in Jantzen Beach. I figure that maybe they started there and then moved. I gave the leadership speech, “Don’t Be …
Week #6b – Graystone Media
I did a leadership training with the team at Graystone Media. They are an incredible group. It was a fun and interactive training. I presented “The Leadership Wheel” in which I covered 10 leadership qualities that were applicable to their team and growth. They were: Accountability Rising above the circumstances and taking ownership to achieve …
Week #6 – Feedbackers
Feedbackers is an advanced Toastmasters club that meets monthly. What a great concept for a club. When you speak you get three verbal evaluations. One person gives you feedback on your overall speech structure, and how well you stuck to the objectives of the speech. The other two give you input on specific criteria, like …
Week #5b – Future Stars
I got another chance to speak this week. It was at Future Stars, the youth communication and leadership club I started 4 years ago. Since I merged the group with another youth group, the attendance has become quite high and I’ve taken on the role of one of the 4 coordinators. I was impressed with …
Week #5 – US Bank
The US Bank Columbia Center in Gresham, Oregon was hosting a demo Toastmasters meeting to create interest in starting a Toastmasters club at that location for the internal employees. I was the only speaker for the meeting and I talked about how important communication and leadership skills were in the workforce.
