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April 24th.
Conference Details
Saturday, April 24, will provide us a great day in Paris,
with contests, training and conviviality.
A day shared by A and B divisions, or all Toastmasters clubs
France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
- The A division groups together more than 15 French speaking clubs.
- The B division groups together more than 20 English speaking clubs.
During the day you can switch languages at your leisure!
Agenda for Saturday 24th April
| 9h00 – 10h00 | Welcome participants |
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| 10h00 – 10h20 | Opening Ceremony and Update on Divisions A and B |
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| 10h20 – 10h35 | Keynote Speech by Alexandra Olsson Lieutanant Governor Marketing |
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| 10h50 – 12h20 | Evaluation Contest |
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| 11h50 – 13h05 | Separate Workshops : Steve Flinders: Managing an International Team / Agnès Sarrazin-Millet : Techniques vocales |
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| 13h05 – 14h15 | Lunch |
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| 14h15 – 16h15 | Speech Contest |
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| 16h15 – 16h30 | Break |
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| 16h30 – 17h30 | Joint Workshop Divisions A and B : Carol Bausor: Body Language |
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| 17h30 – 17h45 | Contest results and Awards |
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| 17h45 – 18h00 | Closing Ceremony |
See the detailed agenda for Saturday 24th April (google spreadsheet)
All Toastmasters members know that the conference is a great opportunity for training and meeting.
Get your friends, your colleagues, your neighbors and your family involved! All are welcome to attend the stimulating training sessions in a dynamic and friendly atmosphere
Key Note Speech by Alexandra Olsson
Alexandra Olsson comes from Gothenburg, Sweden She is originally from Austria but lived in the USA for 17 years, in Germany for 6 1/2 years and has been living in Gothenburg for 27 years - in other words a true Cosmoplitan!
Alexandra, Advanced Communicator Silver and Competent Leader, has been a Toastmaster for almost 7 years now. She is a member of Gothenburg Toastmaster and two other clubs in Gothenburg. She has had most roles in her clubs, has been Area and Division Governor and is now Lieutenant Governor Marketing on the District59 board. Lt Governor Marketing means making sure that all 170 clubs in continental Europe are thriving, starting new clubs, getting new members, paying their dues on time and more.
Alexandra will talk to us about "Effective Cross Cultural Communication", an important issue considering how many different nationalities and countries are in District59.
Separate Workshops
Steve Flinders: Managing an International Team
Do you work internationally? Do you enjoy the special challenges that working internationally raises? And how well you do you perform when working with people from other countries and cultures? In this workshop-cum-presentation, we will reflect on what competences and behaviours we need for successful international working and I shall present my ideas about how to get the best out of an international team.
Steve Flinders is a director of York Associates, a training company based in York, England, whose mission is to develop people internationally. Steve designs and delivers professional language, communication, intercultural communication and international leadership skills programmes to clients in York and across the world. He has a special interest in international political and employee relations communication and is the author of a number of books, including Key Terms in People Management.
Download the PowerPoint presentation of Bob Dignen
Agnès Sarrazin-Millet : Techniques vocales
Venez acquérir, de manière ludique, de nouvelles techniques pour améliorer vos prises de paroles en public !
¾ d’heure inoubliables avec des exercices de diction,
de respiration et de développement personnel !
L’atelier sera animé par Agnès SARRAZIN-MILLET de la société COACTANCE.
Agnès est Coach PNListe et intervient en entreprise où elle accompagne des salariés,
managers et dirigeants vers l’atteinte de leurs objectifs.
Téléchargez la plaquette de l'atelier
Téléchargez la présentation PowerPoint de l'atelier
Téléchargez le support de travail (phrases à lire)
Joint Workshop
Carol Bausor : "Body Language"
Carol BAUSOR is English, but with a name like that she sometimes also likes to pretend that she is French. An experienced English trainer, she has worked with all trainees of all ages, and says that she often wonders who learns the most: the trainees or the trainer
Today she is facilitating a workshop to demonstrate, in an extremely active manner, some of the differences between French and English. As Toastmasters, we know that communication is more than just the words; in this session, we will be exploring some of the extremely interesting variations amongst the non-verbal parameters. During the workshop, you will all – French and English speakers alike - be talking, moving, gesticulating, vocalizing! Vive la différence!
Download the PowerPoint presentation of the workshop
Paris Tours Sponsored by Fellow Toastmasters on Friday evening and Sunday morning
Friday evening (from 7 to 9 pm) : Quartier latin
Métro Chatelet les Halles.
Meeting Point: Pierre Lescot Street (Métro Châtelet –les-Halles, next to the police station and in front of the café « Le Bon pêcheur »).
We will cross the boulevard Sébastopol to visit the George Pompidou Centre. Next, we will go up rue du Renard and see the Paris Town Hall (Mairie de Paris). After crossing the Arcole Bridge, we will visit Notre-Dame Cathedral.
In our next stage of our tour, we will cross the river Seine to see the Quai Saint Michel and its bookshops.
In the Saint Michel Quarter we will visit:
- Quai des Orfèvres on the opposite side
- Small pedestrian streets (we may have dinner
in this Quarter) - Saint Michel Place = End of the Tour
Sunday morning (from 10 to 12 am) : Montmartre
Meeting Point: Place de Clichy (métro Line 2 or Line 13)
The first part of the tour will be a visit to the Montmartre Cemetery which is the final resting place for some quite well known historical figures. We will visit Boulevard de Clichy which hosts the famous Moulin Rouge and Le Chat noir until we reach Pigalle Place and Anvers.
On the next stage of the tour, we will walk up to the Basilica of Sacré Cœur (by taking the rue de Steinkerque) and visit the Sacré Coeur Quarter, the Butte Montmartre, the place du Tertre and its painters.
Sacre Coeur and Montmartre have beautiful views of Paris with its winding streets and monuments.