A History in Making
The 37th Club Meeting was scheduled for Bhaktapur Toastmasters Club on 23rd May 2020 at its regular time, 8:30 am. Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation and the lockdown, we were preparing our meeting on Zoom with the support from the District and Division Officers. We had already started letting participants in by 8:00 am. […]
Leadership is like new shoes
July 1, 2019, You wake up and realize that you are in different shoes altogether. Doors open for newer opportunities and learning, which awaits you on the other side. The role of Area Director was something that came in just like new shoes, and I had to adjust, wear, and make sure I was comfortable […]
Prancing Horses and Practicing Leadership
A horse came galloping down the road. It seemed as though the man on the horse had somewhere important to go. Another man who was standing on the road shouted, “Where are you going?” The man on the horse replied, “I don’t know! Ask the horse!” What sets apart a leader from “the rest” is […]
Why Leadership Roles?
I remember traveling to Delhi in June 2019. It was training sessions for the newly appointed area Directors. The weather was equally hot, if not more. We were staying at the Welcome Hotel in Dwarka. The next day session started with formal welcome remarks from the District Director and followed by a keynote speech from […]
Welcome! Welcome!! Welcome!!
“Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!” That was the title of the email that I received on June 19, 2019, from DTM Jennifer Ghosh, District Director (Elect) 2019-2020, District 41. This was the official email recognizing that I was going to be Area Director (AD) for Area A1 for the term 2019-20. I was overjoyed to see that […]
Looking back at the year
When I started my journey as Area A6 Director on 1st July 2019, I had very little idea about what to expect from this leadership journey. Having joined Toastmasters Int’l in 2008, my journey of Toastmasters was more focused on lifting myself. When I was asked to take the challenge of leadership role, I thought […]
Feeling the pulse
I thought a lot about it before sharing my plan with the six Area Directors and club mentors in July 2019. I wanted to visit all clubs, first existing 18 and thereafter every new club as they opened. Learning from the AD role I took up two years ago, I wanted to understand directly from […]
Being a better storyteller with Toastmasters
I always had interesting stories to tell people: the incredible adventures in my childhood, the enormous pressure to score distinction in SLC, a terribly frightening encounter with scary wild jackals near my house, and heartbreaking denials by gorgeous girls. Wherever I told my stories, while sipping tea in a bakery, traveling long distances with my […]
The Leader in Me: Club VPE Experience
Around September of 2019, The Association of Chartered Accountants of Nepal under the strong leadership of President TM Ananda Raj Sharma Wagle came up with the idea of chartering ACAN Toastmasters club and had their first meeting accompanied and coordinated by fellow Toastmasters from Nepal Toastmasters Forum. Noticing the platform coming to my side of […]
A stress buster
To start with, Toastmasters, for me, was a stress buster. The weekly meeting of Kathmandu Toastmasters shifted from Monday to Tuesday and then to Friday and once again finally to Monday. My six years with the club was an amazing experience. Later in the year 2018, I realized the advantages of a local Toastmasters Club […]