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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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May 15, 2025
Vous êtes en réunion. En #anglais. Et tout à coup, vous entendez votre responsable dire : « Catherine va nous en parler. » Quoi ? 😰 Vous n'êtes absolument pas préparé à aborder ce sujet devant tout le monde, mais...pas le choix. Alors, que dites-vous ? Une série de « euh, euhhh » ? 𝗢𝘂 𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇 𝘂𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿é𝗳𝗹é𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗿, 𝗽𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘇 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶è𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗵é𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲 ? Ce que j'ai appris en m'entraînant à improviser, c'est l'importance de 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. Regardez ma vidéo pour découvrir quelques conseils... (by the way, I made this video before I did my competition, in case you saw my post on Monday...) ________________________________ 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩, 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩! 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 A Star Formation. (𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘰...) #prisedeparoleenpublic
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Marie-Christine Ramazzotti
Directrice des Ressources Humaines | International | Recrutement | Relations Humaines et gestion des talents | Aidante Familiale
5 months ago
Best of luck Catherine!!! And thanks as always for your inspiring and useful tips!! 🍀
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George Arping
Passionate about People* Managing Director at Intercom Language
5 months ago
Have looked at the Toastmasters club in Hamburg. Just don’t think I can commit to something new right now. Glad you did though,Catherine
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Jane Carvell
Business English Trainer, Language Coach & Visual Thinker
5 months ago
I've been meaning to go along to my local Toastmasters group in Düsseldorf, but just haven't plucked up the courage yet!
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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