Jef Menguin

Outsmart Power Trippers Without Losing Your Cool

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 7 minutes of reading

A power-tripping boss can make work feel like walking on eggshells, and if it continues you’ll lose confidence, lose momentum, and dread Mondays. In this article, Jef Menguin shares practical ways to deal with power trippers—stay composed, communicate assertively, and set limits without starting a war. Use it and pass it on at work so your people learn to stand firm without becoming toxic too.

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Hope for the best?

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 1 minute of reading

Being clear what you want people to deliver raises the possibility of being positively surprised.

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Stop Chasing, Start Attracting

By Jef Menguin / Life / 1 minute of reading

We are bombarded by sell, sell, sell messages. This means that every day you have to chase clients. That’s how you can be successful. I think you can be successful when you chase customers. Being action-oriented is better than having a wait-and-see attitude. Building your

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Pathways Experience

By Jef Menguin / Life / 2 minutes of reading

You speak in clubs only to share what you’ve learned from each project. And if you are like me who pay more attention to learning than earning badges, you can play bigger.

How can you do it?

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Using Notes in Speaking

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 2 minutes of reading

Just keep this in mind: don’t deliver a script when delivering a speech in public.

Speaking is a conversation. Keep your eye contact. Use gestures, facial expressions, and body movements to amplify your message. You cannot make your speech visual if you read your speech.

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Sell Your Toastmasters Meetings

By Jef Menguin / Life / 2 minutes of reading

Toastmasters are encouraged to invite guests to club meetings. We share the benefits that membership offers. Toastmasters gamified recruitment of new members. A club earns two points in a ten-point system when 8 guests sign up for membership. Some officers take it as their personal

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Evaluation in Toastmasters

By Jef Menguin / Life / 3 minutes of reading

To evaluate is to appreciate the value of what you have seen, heard, or felt from the speech delivered before you. I used the word appreciate. Because whatever appreciates increases in value. And that’s what happens in many Toastmasters meetings. We try our best to

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Teachers in Toastmasters

By Jef Menguin / Life / 3 minutes of reading

Learning to speak in Toastmasters is a DIY project. I will advise people who need teachers before they can learn to join a Speaking school instead.

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Table Topics brings out your genius

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 2 minutes of reading

Table Topics is the impromptu speaking segment of Toastmasters. Members of the club are called to speak about topics that they only have seconds to prepare.

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Confident Speaking in Toastmasters

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 3 minutes of reading

One effective way of increasing your value 100x is through public speaking. Unfortunately, many people don’t grab this opportunity. They are afraid to speak.

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Stop Wishing and Start Doing

By Jef Menguin / Life / 8 minutes of reading

Motivation and ability fail people. Not only that they need to develop skills of achievement, but they must also develop achievement habits. Stop wishing and start winning.

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Motivating Employees

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win in Business / 6 minutes of reading

Can we really motivate employees?

I am not really sure how to answer that question. That’s because employees are always motivated. They are motivated about so many things that we leaders do not know.

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Get a leadership speaker.

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win in Business / 2 minutes of reading

It is the job and mission of a leadership speaker to help you become better leaders. Better leaders inspire people to a shared vision, engage and uplift people, challenge the status quo, and make everyone you lead find the better future they aspire.

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How Leaders Inspire People

By Jef Menguin / Life / 1 minute of reading

The best managers and supervisors are not bosses. They are transformational leaders. They understand that their job in your company is not to report for work. Their main job is to help you develop leaders within the organization.

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How to Develop Disciplined Execution

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 1 minute of reading

Leaders make possible happen. All your great plans come to nothing if they are not successfully executed. I have facilitated off-site strategic planning for organizations. I am almost always fascinated by the brilliance and creativity participants show in creating great plans.

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Start something small today.

By Jef Menguin / Life / 6 minutes of reading

I do not know you. But I think you can start one small action today that will help you build yourself. Let us brainstorm.

I think you can start…

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Why I Keep A Journal

By Jef Menguin / Life / 8 minutes of reading

Journal writing is important to learning.

It provides us an avenue to examine our actions so we learn from our successes and failures. It helps us also pause and think before we proceed to our next actions.

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Prepare Before You Speak

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win at Work / 5 minutes of reading

Every person has the capacity to change someone’s life. Anyone who has the confidence and conviction to help can do it.

Do you want to learn how to speak with confidence and make a difference in the lives of others?

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Grow the Great Teacher

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win in Business / 4 minutes of reading

I became a teacher three months before my college graduation. I wanted the money, though contemptibly small. Having a job is a badge of honor in the Philippines. I knew then, as now, that many college graduates don’t get jobs. Those who took Political Science

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Make learning easy.

By Jef Menguin / Play to Win in Business / 2 minutes of reading

I learn because I have a problem to solve and I want to solve it now. If a trainer or a speaker can help me learn things at the shortest time possible, I can learn better. Only then that a speaker or trainer becomes useful to me.

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