Practice Notes

Join us for the next two Tea and Toast learning sessions

If you haven't been along already, then come along to one of our hour-long sessions. They're free and open to everyone.

Title of Tea and Toast Session

A rundown on why EQ matters for leadership and building workplace relationships.

Date Tuesday 18 May

Time 8am - 9am

Venue The Training Practice Boardroom, Level 5, Newspaper House, 93 Boulcott Street.

All welcome - email katherine@trainingpractice.co.nz if you want to come.

Giving negative feedback - tips to make this easier

It's rated as an area of management many people avoid. Learn some tips and techniques to help anyone who puts it off, but knows they shouldn't.

Date Wednesday 2 June

Time 8am - 9am

Venue The Training Practice Boardroom, Level 5, Newspaper House, 93 Boulcott Street.

All welcome - email katherine@trainingpractice.co.nz if you want to come.

Speechwriting books

At a recent Tea and Toast on speechwriting, we mentioned some books that are worth reading. They are:

Jeff Scott Cook, The elements of speechwriting and public speaking, 1989. This is a practical book with plenty of examples.

William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears 1997. A compilation of speeches from ancient to modern.

Max Atkinson, Our Masters' Voices, 1996. A detailed study of UK political speech making.

Meeting warm ups and icebreakers

1. Movie characters. Ask everyone to answer the question:

Which movie character would you like to be and in which movie?

2. First job. Ask everyone to answer the question:

What was your first ever job?

3. What don't we know about you? Ask everyone to write one thing the rest of group doesn't know about them on a piece of paper. Hand the piece of paper to the meeting chair or facilitator. The chair/facilitator then reads one out at a time. The group has to guess who it refers to.