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It’s
your moment in the spotlight, you have just been announced as Best
Table Topic of the Day. How
do you gracefully accept your award and look professional?
Here are a few simple tips:
First:
Walk confidentially to the front and extend your hand to
shake hands with the presenter.
Second: While your right hands are “tied up,” so to speak, the
presenter will hand you the trophy (and ribbon, if appropriate) over
the top of the clasped hands.
So,
right hands are always used for shaking hands, and the left hands
are always used for accepting the award.
The
presenter will need to hold the trophy in such a way that makes it
easy to be accepted. So,
presenters, think about how you pick up the trophy to be presented.
You want to make the exchange easy for both you and the
person accepting the award.
It
may take you a few times presenting and accepting awards to smooth
out the kinks, but that’s the purpose of
Toastmasters—to provide you a Laboratory for Learning these
techniques. You never
know when you may be faced with these opportunities on the job or in
other facets of your life; and when you are, you will be posed and
confident in any situation!
Caren M. Borowski, ATM |
