Luxembourg Talks

Tips for new toastmasters, courtesy of Bill Brown, DTM - in the latest issue of the Toastmaster magazine:
1. Getting to CC (the competent communicator award) is not a race.
2. Map out your speech topics early (and choose them to fit your project).
3. Use your mentors (they're only too happy to help).

Next session will handle Table Topics. You know why that is... soon, you will be confronted with a Table topics master AND contestants at club, Area, Division AND District levels! Now is the time to enrol for the next How to session! The conditions are the same as before! Join the fun and learn from each other, the best and the rest of them!

(EN) Luxembourg Talks, Italian Speech Contest, with the Contest Master Chiara Alzati:

(IT) Luxembourg Talks, Concorso di lingua italiana, con la Presidente di Concorso Chiara Alzati:

1) Paulo Conde Medina
2) Roberta Treno
3) Beatriz Macedo
4) Analisa Crespi
5) Melchior Glatthard
6) Valentina Caimi

Congratulazione ai vincitori per le eccelenti discorsi.

Are you missing Luxembourg already?

Why Toastmasters Is Therapeutic 14 May 2015. Western Europe got together once again to celebrate an incredible Spring Conference, the D59 Luxembourg Talks. And boy, was it a celebration! Over 14 countries, more than 20 nationalities, the beautiful Alvisse Parc Hotel Luxembourg in the middle of mountain forests and a weekend to rem

The Luxembourg Talks core team received from Manie Conradie, our PQD, the following thank you book: "Start with Why"

It fitted perfectly with Mohammed Qahtani's Keynote and Workshop.

Congratulations to the core team of organisers:
Juhasz Balint (Balint Juhasz), Prince Motiani, Kuba JJ, Nikola Todorov, Marina Elena Tataram, Diane Ries, Stefanie B Zutter, Pierre-Elie Bernard.

Give them a bunch of likes please.

Signed: Margarida

The Luxembourg Talks core organiser team offered Mohammed Qahtani a lighter with an inscription. This lighter can be his new fashionable prop should present "The Power of Words" again.

The inscription:
Merci villmols ( = Many thanks)
Luxembourg Talks 2016 Team

On stage: Diane Ries, Stefanie B Zutter, Mohammed Qahtani, Pierre-Elie Bernard, Kuba JJ, Prince Motiani, Juhasz Balint (Bálint Juhasz).
Later equally Marina Elena Tataram and Nikola Todorov.

Congratulations to the core team of organisers of Luxembourg Talks.
Recognise their work by giving them a bunch of likes please. :-)
Sign.: Margarida

Thank you Mohammed Qahtani for your inspirational workshop.
We learned a lot and were entertained by Robert van der Meer, who very efficiently signalled the negativity in your message, as instructed.

"Yes you can"
What are we afraid of?
Indeed, negative messages are very harmful for out self-esteem.
Capitalise on your talents.
Ask for help.
Don't merely exist. Live!
Have big dreams, start step-by-step.
Manage a bucket list!

Contacts:
[email protected]
http://www.facebook.com/wcps20015
Twitter: mohdqaht
Instagram: wcps2015

We wish you every success in your career as a public speaker.

Thank you Mohammed Qahtani for your eye opener.

Calls for actions from Mohammed Qahtani’s Keynote:

1) Your status: The glass is half empty. Choose rather what you always wanted to do. We are missing out a lot of things in our lives.
2) Focus: When something happens to us, or something fails, there is always something we can do about it-
3) Meaning: Choosing a higher aim.
And knowing clearly why we want achieve this aim.
4) Relationships: We cannot achieve a dream alone.
Always ask for help. Everybody has a strength.
Capitalise on that.
5) Strategy: Do not think big like big companies. Do small changes, step-by-step.
Example: American Airlines served less one olive per salad in first class and saved the company.

Why were you at District Conference?
To meet other Toastmasters; to participate in contests; to progress.
Is this what you want? A piece of glass (trophy)?
Aim higher!
Name the target your aim to achieve.
Examples: Speak to 1000 people.
Keep doing it until you reach the championship.
Mohammed saw 2500 Toastmasters in the audience (check out how he looked over and was beaming.)
He made. And if he wins?
At the end, just a piece of glass.
What is your next aim?

Success can get into one's head.
An old lady that came at the end to Mohammed and, in tears, thanked him for making her a better person.
It was not about the trophy. Mohammed wants to make the world a better place.

Summing up the Keynote:
Do something, not for a title. Think of what you can give back
Act with a purpose, make sure you know why you are doing it.

(Thank you Mohammed, we certainly clapped for your Keynote.)