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Competent Leadership Matrix

News for Toastmasters, The New Leadership Manual and Two Evaluations from our club contest, all this, on the Toastcast.As always, you’re thoughts, comments and suggestions are welcome.

http://www.titusvilletoastmasters.org/podcasts/Toastcast-19.mp3

My inner-geek vs your intuition = great Toastmaster Speech Fodder for the day! - Judd

The evidence seems to be that the conscious mind isn’t much use in making hard decisions .

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In another behavior modification story, the same rules that apply to winning that job may also help you win that next speech contest…

A survey of 223 senior executives and managers found that 63% rely on “likeability” and personality of a candidate when making hiring and promotion decisions. So what does this mean to the stereotypical techie who is often labeled as lacking sparkle when it comes to people-skills? Bring on the charm…

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Great Toastmaster Fodder right here!

Extract: “When we see a new face, our brains decide whether that person is attractive and trustworthy within one-tenth of a second, the results of new research indicate.

According to US psychologist, Alex Todorov, people respond intuitively to faces so rapidly, that their reasoning minds may not have time to influence the reaction.

“The link between facial features and character may be tenuous at best, but that doesn’t stop our minds from sizing other people up at a glance. We decide very quickly whether a person possesses many of the traits we feel are important, such as likeability and competence, even though we have not exchanged a single word with them”, Mr Todorov explained.”

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Good Speech/tabletopics Fodder… however I’m not convinced that you shouldn’t buy all these things used. -Judd

Why waste money on shiny packaging and a fancy store when you can find it online and ‘pre-owned’ for a fraction of the cost? Here are your best buys.

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Now here is a great way to get some tabletopics together.

Collections of Questions.

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When you’re working on that tabletopic answer, here are some great ideas to use to help you succeed.

Aguments are an all too common part of life. They should be avoided if possible. But, if you can�t avoid them you may as well win.

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Great tips for the VP of Marketing, especially when using the Internet as a marketing resource.

Tracking your buzz is really something that is becoming more and more important over and will continue to increase in importance as time goes on. In order to manage your reputation you need to track the right things, so here’s a list of 10 things that you absolutely need to be monitoring.

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Great Toastmaster Traits, and generally good ideas.

Honestly guys, it’s all ‘common sense.’ But sometimes you need stuff like this spelled out for you before it really clicks in your mind. The 8 steps laid out here won’t turn you into the life of the party, but it’ll sure get you started in the right direction.

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