Memories with my Mentor
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णु र्गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः गुरु साक्षात परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः To decipher this Sanskrit verse: the mentor is the creator, operator, and destroyer. Creator of confidence in you, operator of the environment where you will grow, and destroyer of your self-doubt. I had a role model – my brother, my close relative. He was always […]
Knowing My Leadership Style through Pathways Project
Knowing my leadership style through the final speech of Level 1 of Pathways felt like an amazing gift and a blessing for me. I came to know that my leadership style was a mixture of coaching, altruistic, democratic, and a lots of other styles. This has made me passionate to discover my inner self and […]
Learnings from taking up TMoE for the first time
At tourism toastmaster, TMOE is assigned at the end of the regular sessions and I took my TMOE role for the first time. It was good opportunity for me to ask all the present Toastmasters if they would like to take any roles, however many of them regretted as they were traveling. Due to the […]
Practice, Practice, Practice: My Ice Breaker Experience
10 September was my daughter’s birthday. A week before I didn’t realize that the date was a Tuesday – the day Tourism Toastmasters meet. So, I had dared to do my ice-breaking speech. I had already backed out once the week before, so I couldn’t back out again excusing about the birthday dinner at home. […]
A Table Topics Experience
Taking Table Topics is the most fearsome thing in Toastmasters. I always tried to escape this session as best as I could, and honestly I escaped it most of the times very tactfully, but once I got caught when our President very confidently put forward my name as Table Topic contestant in 2018! Excuses didn’t […]
Orientation Works!
If you ask the two Agile Area Directors, Prashant Shrestha and Pankaj Pradhananga, on how they opened a club each by 15th Aug 2019, they will swear by ‘orientation program’ before conducting a ‘demo meeting’. Back in 2017 as an Area Director, I realized that one demo meeting is not enough to make people understand […]
Contest Season at Kathmandu Toastmasters
Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. Each year, thousands of Toastmasters compete in the Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics, and International speech contests. Competition begins with club contests and winners continue competing through the area, division, district and all new region quarterfinal levels. Kathmandu Toastmasters Club had annual Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest on 30th […]
PR Meeting & Mobile Photography workshop gathers Toastmasters from across the Division
Who does not like to take pictures, especially in the present days of social media and smartphones? “Photography, as a hobby, a passion, or a profession, is something that everyone finds exciting. So when an opportunity to learn photography skills comes your way, you are bound to feel excited,” says Ramesh Adhikari from Kathmandu Toastmasters. […]
Choice of Life at KTM Toastmasters
An evening to share the pride for the right choices made in life and to learn from those which were not so right, an evening to cheer up for by Sushil Rijal as TMoE. An evening to enjoy fabulous Table Topics Session which was won by Guest Toastmaster Samantha Stevens from London, and to find what leadership really is […]
61st Meeting at SCB
Toastmasters meetings are always encouraging and exciting. They are filled with excitement and enthusiasm to learn more and is different than the usual routine we may follow. On 18th September 2019, SCBNL Toastmasters Club conducted a meeting in a different format. The meeting was mainly divided into 2 sections. First induction of additional new members […]