{"id":1017,"date":"2014-11-09T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:38:00","slug":"english-session-october-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/english-session-october-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"English Session October 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">So yes, let\u2019s face It, It has been a very \u201cunique\u201d session. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Last Wednesday I had the chance to participate in my 5<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;\">th<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Toastmasters session. My expectations were very high, but at some point I kind of knew what to expect. I know about the structure of the session, the timings, the roles, the content and rituals. But Toastmasters, as any other good and fun things in life, couldn\u2019t surprise me more: all the sudden everything was turned upside down. Let me explain It: we had an unexpected guest from Hollywood (LA), lots of fun at the table topics and some chaos at some point, which resulted in a very fresh and dynamic session and also a speaker (Rose) that wasn\u2019t evaluated since she was providing tips on how to evaluate others!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The evening started with Mariyana (our Toastmaster for the evening) introducing Marlene and her husband our guests from the US. They are in Barcelona for other matters but wanted to get a taste of how we do things around here.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Mariyana continued the session stressing the importance of the smile, which was the theme of the session. Also, interesting enough, the word of the day was Chuffed!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Mariyana introduced the Tech Roles and after that we went directly to our first speaker of the night: Rose Chong. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose Chong speech: Keynotes to become a good evaluator<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose is a very senior speaker; she looks very confident and secure. Rose makes eye contact and smiles<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose starts talking about her mentee, which gave her first speech last week, starting the speech with an \u00aboh my god&#8230; why am I here, you are going to scrutiny myself&#8230;\u00bb<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The speaker points out that a good evaluator is one that evaluates to encourage the speaker, not to criticize for the sake of It.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">There are 3 pillars for a good evaluation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Mindset<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Preparation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Encourage. &nbsp;Live demo<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose speaks about the importance of each role, &nbsp;evaluator, audience, guest, speaker (most important)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">She empathize with the speaker, introducing some very funny remarks in her speach<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Preparation is the most important part for an evaluator. No last minutes are allowed. It\u2019s very important to know the goal of your speaker, so you can evaluate upon those goals: what do you look in your speech? &nbsp;Voice? &nbsp;Body Lang? &nbsp;Improve hand movement?. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;Skills desired for a good evaluator: <\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">A good evaluator can point out very specific themes. Provides the example of Florian Muek<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose recognizes that a bad evaluator make a big impact on the speaker\u2026 even discouraging the speaker to come back to a TM session.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">She recommends providing examples with every comment, so the speaker understands the content and the context. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose brings an Evaluation template. Areas to cover:<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Picture the speech<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Analyze the speech<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Structure your Evaluation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Rate the body language<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Summary<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lastly, Rose recommends providing encouraging feedback to the speaker for his\/her good development.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 21px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Second speech: Henric Obegi, Graduation speech<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Henric starts heading the audience, asking for help and empathy: he will need to provide a graduation speech in few days and he needs to practice and the feedback.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He makes an analogy based on claiming a mountain and getting on top by different ways; depending on the role, the character of each person, priorities, values and experience. Examples of R&amp;D people (creative) vs finance folks or sales and marketing groups. Each group takes a different path and experiences the climbing in a different way.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He makes a good hearted speech about what has been accomplished.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Also, he brings some poetical expressions along but always very confident and natural<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The final message turns into looking at tomorrow, but living the today fully (proposing a good party)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Third speech: Thomas Ron Hold, Entrepreneurial<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Thomas has a very positive attitude; he shares a natural smile that generates a nice atmosphere in the room.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He starts speaking fluently about the subject of his speech.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Early in the speech he shares a personal experience, which resulted in losing his former job. He makes jokes about It, being quite funny about the situation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He mentions that life is a roller coaster, with all the ups and downs, and everything is great but the way his bank statement looks like!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He claims to be an entrepreneur, and seems to be proud of it<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He shares his story after his former job, being a consultant. &nbsp;Explains the desperation of little activity on the very beginnings (no phone calls nor emails from customers)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">For Thomas, to create something new is what really drives him, not so much the income itself<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He explains that he gathers with other professionals, in a similar situation. They tell their stories, share their experiences, share challenges, meet people, help each other. They network and support each other. This generates a lot of satisfaction.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Thomas looks very genuine and natural. I have the feeling that he is sharing his story with a group of friend.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He recommends jumping into it. Get entrepreneurial, realize your dreams. Not be afraid of failing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He wrapped up saying that he might like to create a toastmasters club in an area where there is none.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Jelena, Evaluator of Henric<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Jelena remarks the opening and the engaging style of Henric.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rapidly she mentions 3 good things. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Humor, which can be used more often.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Confidence. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Good content.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">As well as 3 things to improve<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Vocal variety (Jelena provides examples)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Play more with pauses, provides examples&#8230; silence can be golden<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The take home message: provide more depth<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lidia, Evaluator of Thomas<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lidia opens up highlighting the confidence and smiling &nbsp;that Thomas showed<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Also she brings up the good body language and the good use of the ups and downs<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lidia mentions that It was a good idea to use Thomas\u2019 personal experience since it was inspirational and created connection with the audience<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Some aspects to improve: the way to come into the stage, be careful with the hands in the pocket<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lidia wants more passion, more emotion in the speech<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">As a final remark, she mentions that Thomas could do better at the opening and closure (call to action, more powerful)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose is back on stage<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">With Rose now back on stage, she now evaluates Jelena and Lidia as evaluators. Some key points she mentions:<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Jelena was encouraging towards Henric<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Rose provides examples of good Evaluator\u2019s characteristics<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Finally Rose reminds the 3 steps for a good Evaluator: Mindset, preparation, encourage<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Laia, &nbsp;table topics.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Laia explains with examples the importance of selling<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Participants need to sell a mysterious object. This object cannot be seen by participants, who can only touch the object they need to sell.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The 3 speakers were very funny and good sellers. Audience laughed a lot.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">MARLEN, General Evaluator<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Marlene, the colorful lady from LA explains certain differences between her club and ours. She highly compliments the Evaluation templates facilitated by Rose, as well as her presentation. She explains that in her home club, they do table topics first, and they don&#8217;t ask for volunteers, the person in charge just chooses the participants! Marlene recommends having the time keeping and Tech Roles always in front of the speaker\u2026 speaking of time keeping, at this point we are far from keeping the time set for the session, but Marlene keeps on providing examples of differences between the clubs. She constantly remarks that there is no better than the other\u2026 they are \u201cjust different\u201d. Way beyond the time scheduled for the session, when we all thought that Marlene\u2019s part was over\u2026 we were all mistaken! Mariyana points out to Marlene that she needs to give the word to the Tech Table since they need to evaluate the participants. After that, we all thought now It was over\u2026 everyone but Marlene!!! At this point she insists on having pictures with all of us and the brochures of her club back at home (the brochures were really important to her). In the middle of a kind of messy wrap up, Mariyana concludes the session for the day\u2026 in the middle of an intense photo shooting conducted by Mr. Marlene\u2019s husband.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The evening comes to an end with some group pictures with Marlene (and her brochures), good wishes to her and of course, as the theme of the day required, lots of smiles around the room.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yes, let\u2019s face It, It has been a very \u201cunique\u201d session. Last Wednesday I had the chance to participate in my 5th Toastmasters session. My expectations were very high, but at some point I kind of knew what to expect. I know about the structure of the session, the timings, the roles, the content [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So yes, let\u2019s face It, It has been a very \u201cunique\u201d session. Last Wednesday I had the chance to participate in my 5th Toastmasters session. My expectations were very high, but at some point I kind of knew what to expect. I know about the structure of the session, the timings, the roles, the content [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/english-session-october-19th\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Barcelona Toastmasters Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/barcelonatoastmasters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"BCN TM Blogger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BCN TM Blogger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"BCN TM Blogger\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f227c8ba791ccb779acdab6c1c3b6e41\"},\"headline\":\"English Session October 19th\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/\"},\"wordCount\":1396,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Sin categorizar\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/\",\"name\":\"English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"English Session October 19th\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/\",\"name\":\"Barcelona Toastmasters Club\",\"description\":\"El mejor club de oratoria de Barcelona\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Barcelona Toastmasters Club\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/EventBrite.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/EventBrite.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Barcelona Toastmasters Club\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/barcelonatoastmasters\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/barcelona-tm-club\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f227c8ba791ccb779acdab6c1c3b6e41\",\"name\":\"BCN TM Blogger\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club","og_description":"So yes, let\u2019s face It, It has been a very \u201cunique\u201d session. Last Wednesday I had the chance to participate in my 5th Toastmasters session. My expectations were very high, but at some point I kind of knew what to expect. I know about the structure of the session, the timings, the roles, the content [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/english-session-october-19th\/","og_site_name":"Barcelona Toastmasters Club","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/barcelonatoastmasters\/","article_published_time":"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00","author":"BCN TM Blogger","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"BCN TM Blogger","Estimated reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/"},"author":{"name":"BCN TM Blogger","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f227c8ba791ccb779acdab6c1c3b6e41"},"headline":"English Session October 19th","datePublished":"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/"},"wordCount":1396,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Sin categorizar"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/","url":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/","name":"English Session October 19th - Barcelona Toastmasters Club","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-11-09T11:38:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/english-session-october-19th\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"English Session October 19th"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/","name":"Barcelona Toastmasters Club","description":"The best Barcelona public speaking club","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#organization","name":"Barcelona Toastmasters Club","url":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/EventBrite.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/EventBrite.jpg","width":1080,"height":1080,"caption":"Barcelona Toastmasters Club"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/barcelonatoastmasters\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/barcelona-tm-club\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f227c8ba791ccb779acdab6c1c3b6e41","name":"BCN TM Blogger"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}