Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Questions. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Writing as bushwhacking

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                                            In the Merriam-Webster dictionary the second meanings for bushwhack are:   ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Conversations are discussed in an excellent new book by Alison Wood Brooks titled Talk: The science of conversation and the art of being ourselves

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                             On August 16, 2025 I blogged about Fifty excellent Table Topics questions from the appendix ...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Fifty excellent Table Topics questions from the appendix to Alison Wood Brooks’s 2025 book Talk: The science of conversation and the art of being ourselves

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                                Table Topics is the impromptu speaking part of a Toastmasters club meeting. Members each...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Howdahell is jargon for sprinkling local knowledge into a speech

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                                  A blog post by David Murray at Writing Boots on May 23, 2023 is titled Yo, Writer: Yes...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Fifty questions for a first date which also can be used in Table Topics at a Toastmasters club meeting

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                                                                Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Back on February 12, 2018 ...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Asking ‘magic’ questions in conversations

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                                Asking open-ended questions is an important skill for conducting conversations. From the ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Thirty questions to engage someone, beyond How Are You?

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                                We can always use open-ended questions for starting conversations, or as topics for impro...
Monday, January 8, 2024

The 5Ws and 1H (or Kipling Method) for planning public speaking or other communication

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                                        Some ideas are so old they have gotten different names. For example, there is a W...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Would you buy a used car from this man?

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                                    A photograph can leave a strong impression. We saw the first real and scowling mug sh...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

A practical process for writing any speech – from the Professional Speechwriters Association

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                                  There is a twelve-page article (a PSA whitepaper) by Michael Long at the Professional ...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Job interview questions about soft skills also can be used for Table Topics questions at Toastmasters club meetings

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                      Table Topics is the impromptu speaking section of a Toastmasters club meeting. That is where membe...
Monday, March 8, 2021

A 2005 online survey of 16 problems that can affect presentations found the speaker being too nervous ranked last for both harmfulness and frequency

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  Back in 2006 there was a 100-page ebook by Andy Goodman titled Why Bad Presentations Happen To Good Causes , which you c...