Communication Success Tip

What do words have in common with speech? Simply this. Just as time clicks along and can never be recovered, so words, once they are out of our moths, can never be retrieved. Similarly, just as we are responsible to use time conscientiously, so we must use words conscientiously, in order not to hurt others. From Bruno For further Success tips, subscribe to our newsletter. Visit

Leadership - Delegation Part IV - Building with Feedback

Hello Welcome to Leadership - Delegation Series _ Part IV In Part I, we looked at the Benefits of Delegation, Preparation and Choosing the Right People. In Part II, we covered Communicating the Vision and Motivation and in Part III: Building your team and members. Now we move on to Part IV: Building with Feedback You will need to know how your project is progressing, so will need to establish some way of keeping up to date with that progress. The culture of your organisation and the task at hand will determine whether this is a formal process of reporting or conducting meetings, or something less formal. And you will need some way of ensuring that the progress occurs in the ways you envisioned. But you will also need to provide feedback in the other direction to keep your members motivated, on track and to continue their growth and the growth of the organisation. If you do not show any interest in that progress, then the members may lose interest. So find ways to comment on their progress. Keep in mind that there are not always a right and wrong way to do things. The vision is the end product, subject to various other factors that affect how that vision is achieved. Try to make the feedback as positive as possible but also realistic. The control systems that you put into place must make sure that any deviation from the goals is monitored and corrected. You will have established a measurement of success, a definable outcome, and everyone should have been made aware of that from the outset. Hopefully each member of the team will keep watch on progress towards that definable outcome. As the leader, your best contribution will be to give everyone the feeling that, as a team, they are working twoard the vision. To read this whole article and others on growing your organisation, visit

Congratulations Logan City Speech contestants

Congratulations to the Club's Speech Contest competitors. This is the Club's third Speech Contest and it was heart-warming to see the improvement in the speakers over the last twelve months. Special best wishes to Lynne, who won this year, as she prepares to represent the club at our Council meeting in March, 2005. For more information about Communicators Logan City visit

Speech Making Success Tip

How will you hook your audience - get their attention - make them focus on you and your speech? Anecdote? Dramatic statement? Question? Personal experience? Make your choice on the basis of: the composition of your audience, the theme of your presentation, and its length, and what you hope to achieve with it, and then apply all of your confidence and practice to making it effective. For training, practice and supportive evalution of your public speaking, join a club, click on this link.