Journal – Feb 02, 2025

Life Lessons – A Note to Self From the desk of: CM ManjunathDated: Feb 02, 2025 Yesterday, I wanted to experiment with something that I had learnt, recently – the power of storytelling with something insignificant.  When I was given an opportunity to speak, I grabbed it. I believe, to the best of my knowledge, I spoke […]

Speech Development

How to Make a Public Speech? – Step One From the desk of: CM ManjunathDate: Jan 21, 2025 A couple of weeks ago, my club’s president said that I would qualify for a speech contest only if I completed two levels in a series of projects. And he even set a deadline – 30 days. […]

Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions

Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions Date: Jan 09, 2025Bangalore How to give effective feedback? That’s the question this blog post will answer for you. Yesterday, I received two interesting points of view on the same speech that I gave at two different clubs. A couple of points were good and a couple not so […]

The Quest

The Quest Date: Jan 08, 2025Bangalore At 8 pm tonight I was logged into Zoom to give a presentation to over 65 doctors (dermatologists, to be precise).  It was a webinar about how to create and optimize social media profiles. And I was given only 10 minutes to do that. Only 10 minutes? There’s so […]

Crush Stage Fright – L1 P2

Speech Title: Crush Stage Fright L1 P2 https://youtu.be/xBTtRPOx-t8 Date: Jan 05th, 2025Bangalore From the desk of CM Manjunath… Opening a Toastmasters meeting for the very first time in my life was exciting. It happened yesterday, Jan 04th, 2025 at 3.30 pm India Time.  I was the Sergeant At Arms.  It was interesting but a little […]

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