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Toastmasters 20 May meeting report back

Last week I attended my first club meeting in a while because of my travel schedule. What is really awesome to observe at CIS Toastmasters is the constant growth in new members since the website has been re-launched. There is a regular number of new people coming to meetings, joining the club because of this [...]

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CIS Toastmasters meeting March 12th reportback

A good measure of laughs, learning and lingo were the order of the day at CIS Toastmasters meeting on Tuesday March 12. After all the formalities were tended to, with Corne van der Nest as the evening’s toastmaster, Marc Rees, the grammarian, explained that the “words of the day” would be French terms/words that have [...]

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A Masters Degree in Self Motivation

Many people have degrees and have done training in how to do their jobs. But anybody in business will tell you that your skills are only half the job. The other half is communicating with colleagues, suppliers and customers.
Toastmasters International offers what amounts to a masters degree in Communication and Leadership. The DTM qualification [...]

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