In our last meeting, we over shot our time by 30 MINUTES. I lost family time with my kids, had to have my dinner alone and missed dinner table gossip about ...
Author: tinaparekh321
A GE script with sports analogy
Be it Roger Federer or the Manchester United, everyone has a team of professionals to help them win big. From coaches to physiotherapists to dieticians, an entire ensemble of crew ...
Table Topics on quotes from 21st century entrepreneurs
Rockefeller was good. And so was Henry Ford. But I think it’s time to move over them. We have so many visionary and innovative leaders in the 21st century that still quoting the ones from last one is simply old fashioned. So let’s ...
A grammarian script with a creative analogy
Think of language like a tool you wield. Just as a sharpened axe gives the tree cutter an edge, flawless language gives you an edge every time you are competing for someone’s attention or time. It’s better to ...
GE script for an ice breaker special session
When I gave my first ice breaker, it was an absolute mess. In the evaluation round, I was told that there were entire phases of my life missing, the hand gestures could have been better and the voice modulation was virtually ...
Table topics on cartoons
When I was a kid, cartoons were a one hour affair once a day. And Sunday was the day when they would air new episodes. We would finish all our tasks to make sure we were available to view them uninterrupted. And the days when power cuts ...
A Grammarian script on funny errors
The other day I was walking by a neighborhood when I noticed a signboard that read “Trespassers will be prostituted” (Pause). Funny right? Not so when you are ...
A GE script on office apprisals
During office appraisals, I never have fun. But my boss always does. Do you know why? Well that’s because he is roasting me. Here in Toastmasters, we do appraisals after ...
An honest ah counter script
I have filler words in my speeches. Every time I do table topics or try to phrase my evaluations in a better way, inevitably I go ah, umm you know, like etc. Like it or not but so do most of you. But once you accept this shortcoming ...
A Timer’s script on not overshooting time
There are 25 of us here right now and if this meeting over shoots by just 10 minutes, we would have collectively over spent a little more than 4 hours. That is more than enough to host two separate productive Toastmasters meeting or just be with our families. So let’s all take extra ...
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