Iowa State University Visit March 30, 2017
On March 30th I was in Ames, Iowa, a town of 60,000 people which includes the 36,000 students attending Iowa State University. The business faculty had invited me to speak about communication and leadership in general, and Toastmasters specifically. The business faculty is interested in ways that they can make their graduates even more valuable to prospective employers, although they are already highly successful in this regard.
Throughout the day I had a series of meetings with students, faculty and senior administrators, and concluded with a presentation in a large lecture hall. The university newspaper published the following article about my talk.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_dbcd102c-1594-11e7-9570-938ccdac0ea3.html?platform=hootsuite
The day concluded with a meal at Hickory Park BBQ restaurant (http://www.hickoryparkames.com). I highly recommend.
This was an encouraging visit to a university that sees immense value in how Toastmasters enables, in fact empowers, individuals to develop their communication and leadership skills. Even as a member for thirty years, I remain amazed how this organization with 150 staff supports 350,000 members today in 16,000 clubs in 145 countries around the world. And has thrived since being established in 1924.
The university has strong interest in starting a Toastmasters club for development of students at a minimum, with some faculty and staff participation. The faculty and/or staff participation is important where there is much student turnover. I was encouraged with the visit, and remain pleased with Toastmasters opportunity to influence lives and careers of people from all walks of life and all corners of the world.
On March 30th I was in Ames, Iowa, a town of 60,000 people which includes the 36,000 students attending Iowa State University. The business faculty had invited me to speak about communication and leadership in general, and Toastmasters specifically. The business faculty is interested in ways that they can make their graduates even more valuable to prospective employers, although they are already highly successful in this regard.
Throughout the day I had a series of meetings with students, faculty and senior administrators, and concluded with a presentation in a large lecture hall. The university newspaper published the following article about my talk.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_dbcd102c-1594-11e7-9570-938ccdac0ea3.html?platform=hootsuite
The day concluded with a meal at Hickory Park BBQ restaurant (http://www.hickoryparkames.com). I highly recommend.
This was an encouraging visit to a university that sees immense value in how Toastmasters enables, in fact empowers, individuals to develop their communication and leadership skills. Even as a member for thirty years, I remain amazed how this organization with 150 staff supports 350,000 members today in 16,000 clubs in 145 countries around the world. And has thrived since being established in 1924.
The university has strong interest in starting a Toastmasters club for development of students at a minimum, with some faculty and staff participation. The faculty and/or staff participation is important where there is much student turnover. I was encouraged with the visit, and remain pleased with Toastmasters opportunity to influence lives and careers of people from all walks of life and all corners of the world.
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