I was very pleased to be invited to get up very early in the morning to visit Mumbai Toastmasters, who were the only Indian club involved in my speedrun.
They are really organised: they plan and run their meetings like a military operation - it's very impressive!
I was also told it's the club with the biggest membership in the world. I met one guy who told me he had recently visited a club which had fewer members than he personally had mentees!
I have a video of this meeting available but I've decided not to post my own talk to the blog. The speech was in the "Managing Change" project and was about "Will Precedents" - and I am indeed in the process of amending the will precedents at my own work, at the moment, and it's a big project. However to make my talk easier to follow I fictionalised it to some extent, drawing on some experiences I had around 20 years ago, and I think - on reflection - that the talk would, if posted on the blog, give a false (and negative) impression of what I'm working on now, which would be very unfair since it's not true.
I should explain that (like - I think - most Toastmasters) I don't worry too much about whether what I say at a Toastmasters meeting is true. Indeed, I think embellishment and storytelling are part of the art. But I'm less comfortable putting online something I can't support.
I am, however, very happy to post this truly excellent evaluation:
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