Prosperous Project Management: Speaking buddies

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Speaking buddies

I just returned from a meeting at ProSpeakers - The Advanced Toastmasters club focusing on Professional Speaking in District 53. We meet in Springfield, Mass, on the third Thursday of every month.

We give honest and positive feedback on each speech, with suggestions. I again saw the power of having a number of people discuss a speech. This is essentially a low-priced coaching program, where each speaker has 10 or more speaking buddies for the night. And the results are eye-opening.

Tonight, one evaluator said "Show me how we can improve the gesture of a wife whispering in her husband's ear", which sparked another evaluator to come up with an amazing line that just "clicked". Together, our audience agreed that the combination is perfect for this speech. Wow!! I am sure that no one on their own would have found these improvements to the speech. As Ed Tate says "The answer is in the room"

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Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.