Michael Podolinsky CSP Honoured with Spirit of Service Award
Michael Podolinsky CSP Honoured with Spirit of Service Award
We serve to serve… and sometimes (not always) get thanked.
Many of us today are too busy to ‘help others out’. We are up to our eyeballs in work, responsibilities and stress. It’s not that we don’t care, we just don’t seem to have the time. I’m not different. Yet for the past 30 years, I’ve tried to give back to my profession I love so much. I carved out time for events and to mentor new speakers, supported our local speaking organization by paying my dues 5 years in advance and like many others, showed up at every meeting I could make. Sometimes these activities get you a ‘thank you.’
At the Asia Professional Speakers Association Annual Convention this month, I was the first ever recipient of the Spirit of Service Award, awarded by the Asia Professional Speakers Singapore (APSS). My association recognized me for my chairmanship of the APSS inaugural Raise Your Game public service programme with raised $40,000 for cancer victims. They thanked me for an on-going spirit of giving and mentorship to the association, the profession and mentorship to numerous speakers in APSS.
Michael Podolinsky CSP thanking the members at the APSS Annual Convention, at which he emceed.
“As a founding member of APSS and Senior Advisor to the Board of Directors of APSS, his tireless effort has proved invaluable to the Board. He was the first person living in Singapore to become a Certified Speaking Professional and currently sits as co-chair of the CSP Council of Asia.” said APSS President Tim Wade.
This year I am celebrating my 30th year in professional speaking and my 22nd year in Singapore where i resides with my family as a PR.
Thank all of YOU for reading, for supporting me by recommending me to speak at your conventions, to come in and conduct training and by sitting in the seats at the 2,890 programs I’ve conducted. God bless you all.
Smile Maker Thought for the day; Take the time to help mentor someone today. The person benefitting most will be the person doing the mentoring.
Are they the same or different? If a person can write well he can speak well as ABCD. Any truth in it? I am curious.
Hi Hussien
These are two very different skills. Take the extreme. A mute person may be an outstanding writer…incapable of speech. On the other extreme, I’ve heard amazing speakers that when they write, they use too many words like they were giving to 2 day workshop. These are separate skills. They CAN and often DO compliment one another but can also be mutually exclusive. Thanks for asking and God bless you
mike