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the podium and demonstrated big, whole of teams that you’ve seen before. I’d
body gestures. love to do the general evaluator role

3. Daydream. Keep a new idea journal with someone else, modeled after the
just for Toastmasters, and bring it to cantankerous old Statler and Waldorf on
meetings. Any time you see or hear or the Muppet Show.
think of anything that stems a new idea, Jack London once said, “You can’t wait for

write it down. Once, while our schedule inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
was being passed around, I got the idea Fellow Toastmasters, join me in going after
to sign up as both speaker and the Table inspiration with a club—your Toastmasters club!
Topics master—and I chose creativity as Tana Franko has been a member of Newberg

the theme for the meeting—all so that Toastmasters since May 2015, completing her CC and
I could tie the table topics questions to Innovative Planning Level 1 in Pathways, and recently
my speech on creativity, giving the ideas earning the District 7 Triple A award. She works with
more impact. an international team of technical communicators

4. Put your heads together. Nothing is better supporting online collaboration tools for businesses.
for generating ideas than talking with Using creativity and empathy in communication is
others. Invite someone out for coffee and a favorite theme of hers, and she’s spoken at a couple
talk about doing a role *together*—think of industry conferences on the subject.

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