Have you ever found yourself in a conversation where things started to feel… tense? It happened to me recently when someone on my team said: “You didn’t send me the login, or I would have been able to do it.” I instinctively replied: “You didn’t ask me for it, or I would have given it. […]
I recently tested my Toastmasters contest speech at a club, eager to see how it landed. After delivering it, the feedback started coming in – some points I expected, others I hadn’t considered. At first, I caught myself instinctively wanting to defend my choices. “But that’s intentional,” I thought. “That’s my style.” Then I stopped. […]
Twenty years or so ago, I walked into a Toastmasters meeting for the first time. I did not know then that the organisation would become one of the most consistent threads in my professional life, through the years I showed up regularly, through the periods I drifted away, through the competitions, the club presidencies, across […]
