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Should You Attend Hybrid Meeting Virtually or In-Person?
Hybrid meetings are a post-Covid innovation that’s clearly here to stay. Show up in person or tune in from home in your pajamas. Always good to have options! Vancore has been experimenting with hybrid meetings for a few weeks now, … Continue reading
Impromptu Speaking Helps You Grow
“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” — Michael Scott, The Office. Now you know why the head of Dunder Mifflin paper company is … Continue reading
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A Juggling Act Mirrors Life
When you’re new to Toastmasters, it can feel like a lot to manage when you take on a role at a meeting. Maybe you’re the timer, watching the clock and nudging the light stack from green to orange to red. … Continue reading
How to Broaden Our Perspective
And so a year of heavy weather in so many ways comes to a close. Vancore is fortunate to be graced with two meteorologists in the mix, each with their own perspectives and speaking styles. Their job this 2021 year … Continue reading
How to Build Your Expertise with Public Speaking
When you have a professional meterologist on the roster, things heat up quickly. Heeeeerrrrree came….Giselle, capping a summer of weather like no other. A summer when Lytton, BC smashed the record for highest temperature in Canada ever — for three … Continue reading
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Tagged buildexpertise, Career building public speaking, confidentspeaker, Downtown Toastmasters, Learn to public speak, Learn to speak in public, Overcome fear of public speaking, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Education, Public Speaking Vancouver, Speak with confidence, Speak without fear, speakconfidently, speaking confidence, Speaking education, speech, Toastmasters Club, Toastmasters Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver Toastmasters
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Remembering Susan Chew
Long-Time Member Became the Heart of Vancore There are times in life when we’re called to meet a moment with a few carefully chosen public words. This week was one of them. Beloved long-time Vancore Toastmasters member, Susan Chew — … Continue reading
How to Cultivate Good Conversation Skills
Why is it important to cultivate conversations skills if you want to succeed in life? We need productive relationships to succeed professionally and have meaningful relationships for a happy, fulfilling life, and conversations are the foundation of all relationships. Conversations … Continue reading
Wednesday Recap: Public Speaking is Infectious!
Funny thing about public speaking: it’s infectious! In Toastmasters, sometimes a theme comes up and everyone seems to “catch it,” like a cold. And next thing you know everyone’s talking about it one way or another. Case in point: this … Continue reading
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Tagged confidentspeaker, Downtown Toastmasters, Impromtu speaking, Learn to speak in public, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Vancouver, Speak with confidence, Speak without fear, speakconfidently, speaking confidence, Speaking education, Toastmasters Club, Toastmasters Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver Public Speakers, Vancouver Toastmasters
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Wednesday Recap – First Ever Hybrid Meeting with OWL!
Live from the VanCore bat cave! Today we saw the future! Jonathan arranged our first HYBRID meeting, featuring space-age Owl technology. The camera detects individual speakers and hones in on them so tightly you can see their lips move. Or … Continue reading
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Tagged Career building public speaking, Impromtu speaking, Learn to speak in public, Overcome fear of public speaking, personal development, professional development, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Education, Public Speaking Vancouver, speaking confidence, Speaking education, Speaking in public, Toastmasters, Toastmasters Club
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Wednesday Meeting Recap: Rocking Our Speaking Skills!
Vancore was founded by mining folks — hence the name! — and Jonathan Buchanan, former club president and current treasurer, gamely carries the industry’s gem-like flame. It takes a talent to make rocks interesting! At the September 1, 2021 meeting, … Continue reading
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