{"id":281,"date":"2009-03-24T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-03-24T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:19:56","slug":"tyneside-toastmasters-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/tyneside-toastmasters-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyneside Toastmasters Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;m back&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.. and my opinion remains the same as my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2009\/03\/23\/toastmasters-in-tyneside\/\">last blog<\/a>.  I think the idea of Toastmasters is great &#8211; but there&#8217;s a but.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually the second draft of this posting &#8211; I&#8217;ve just zapped about 20 minutes work because it read too negatively!  :)  I finally realised that Toastmasters and Curved Vision actually do complimentary things. What we can give people on our courses as detailed techniques, skills and support: we can tell you what works, what doesn&#8217;t and why.  We can also tell you what to try instead.  What we can&#8217;t do (unless you&#8217;ve got corporate funding) is give you practice-time, because it costs money to hire us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What Toastmasters provides is a supportive environment in which to try out your skills.  Some of the progression stuff is a bit lightweight but that&#8217;s fine &#8211; Toastmasters <strong>isn&#8217;t<\/strong> a training-ground; it&#8217;s a <em>practice<\/em>-ground.  And as such, if last night was anything to go by, A1 speakers in Newcastle is going to be a supportive place to practice.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the best balance therefore is a bit of both.  To that end, we&#8217;re going to be offering members of A1 Speakers a chunky discount on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellingpeople.co.uk\">public presentation skills training courses<\/a>.  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;m back&#8230;.. &#8230;.. and my opinion remains the same as my last blog. I think the idea of Toastmasters is great &#8211; but there&#8217;s a but. This is actually the second draft of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,9,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-personal-blog-related","category-powerpoint-and-other-packages","category-presentation-tips","category-reviews-case-studies","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}