4 Apr 2020

Finished 2 years ago these 4 paths


The first I finished was Visionary communication, if one can call it "finished". I did the path but not my vision, which still continues to this day and into the feature. Between others, through these posts here, but not only.

The second, also finished with bumps, and speaking all the way to Australia, was Presentation mastery. But it's printed version is still in my Archives and I never intend to finish that one. Preferred to buy it again, web based.

It took more time for the Effective Coaching, even if initially, I did buy all three at same time. I was in three clubs, and at the time, three years ago, I believed each club haas to have its own path. Now, I know better. The paths belong to us, the member. We can, at the end of each 5 Level, decide which club needs it more, to whom ask to declare it in Club central. EC was also long as it has a High Performance Leadership at the end, for me, it was devoted to bring all members of my online club, Witty Storytellers Online into Pathways. A year before officially it arrived to online clubs. Needless to say, most of us become Pathways Ambassadors and Guides.

Leadership Development was the shortest path for me. Summer beginning, with an Icebreaker told in family gathering, winter finishing in a cross continents story telling event. I learned how wonderful a path can become when dedicated to a theme we assign to it. When done in a team, each with its own path but consulting on what we do. Finishing together. Officially, I did not close this path till pathway did not arrive in Region 10 England, offering it to my London club, Lewisham speakers.

I used VC and LD path a year later for my DTM, the two paths I enjoyed most.


3 Apr 2020

Beginning Path and Project with Tony&Michelle 55 min video


Both Tony and Michelle are new to Toastmasters and new members of Lewisham Speakers club. 

Michelle gave her Icebreaker, the last meeting when Tony was Timekeeper.

I regret having closed the recording too fast. They both exclaimed "the club is so welcoming! Toastmasters so useful! The projects in the Basecamp wonderful, we will learn a lot from them.

Look also at coaching Tony, also a beginner.
https://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.com/2020/03/sam-and-julie-25-march-2020-basecamp.html

1 Apr 2020

Do we know what we don't know yet?

Did you know that you can look Side-to-Side to a speaker and also adjust how much Kevin James and how much the slide does occupies?
Of course, you have to allow it in your Zoom Settings (General). It is one of the last options there. Then, again, it has to be chosen in the meeting, which gives many options of how to look to us.

Passing from not knowing at all, to understanding we have to learn more, to begun to learn and finally, using it without even thinking at it, there are four stages as explained so well by Kevin (Kev James) speech in the meeting I participated all the way in Australia.

Long ago, Bernard Shaw, talked using how we learn to ride bicycles.
What is true for using some of zoom features, is true also for Pathways, Basecamp, Projects. With time, as they are same happily in all projects, we do not have problems to use them.

Let us not forget those who begin, and do not "know" yet that instead of click in Burgundy title, have to go under and click on the grey ghost under it, for example. That instead of clicking on a path title to open it, we have to go all the way right and click on Activate curriculum.

With time, let us hope, these and similar strange user interface things will be changed, as so much did improve and arrived already last year. But till then... let us learn the skill of using as is.