Training Minds Podcast

Will your Thanksgiving dinner be filled with avoiding hot topics, or will it be filled with robust argumentation and debate? Most will say they prefer the former (avoid politics and religion at all costs!), but I challenge that route. Instead, turn up the persuasion skills and engage. You may be surprised at how wonderful your Thanksgiving dinner will be. Download MP3 This podcast covers much of the content listed in this blog post: https://chrisjeub.com/5-steps-to-winning-the-argument-at-thanksgiving/

Today I take an excerpt from my FREE online course "Persuade." Its viewing is available for free through November 15, so sorry for those of you tuning in after that date. This podcast is still very helpful to your own persuasive mastery, as I delve into the three advantages to mastering persuasion. Download MP3

Chris Jeub opens the podcast with a summary of the Season 18 Week #07 releases. There is only two more releases of the Summer Edition, then onto competition!

Vance Trefethen gave a 2-1/2 hour presentation to Training Minds Camp attendees in July, thoroughly analyzing the Season 18 Stoa Resolution on Transportation Policy. Today's podcast covers a portion of this presentation, giving Stoa competitors a great kick-off analysis of the exciting topic of US transportation policy.

The resolution for Stoa is: "Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its transportation policy."

The fuller presentation will be available later in September exclusively to Monument Members at MonumentMembers.com. For now, members can access two informational articles and (we are in Week 7) two of the three summer release cases along with the negative brief. For access to the year's releases, see MonumentMembers.com/content/policy.

About Today's Podcast

Matthew Erickson won NITOC in 2012 and has since launched into law school with top scholarships. His debate experience had a lot to do with it! In this podcast, Matthew explains key elements in developing great Lincoln-Douglas cases.

Summary of Today's Podcast

Coach Vance Trefethen heads up our policy debate program at camps and throughout our Monument Publishing curriculum. This is a continuation from last week's harm/solvency case structure lesson, instead focusing on alternative case structures.

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Summary of Today's Podcast

Coach Vance Trefethen heads up our policy debate program at camps and throughout our Monument Publishing curriculum. Be sure to take notes as he goes through the structure of the standard harms/solvency case.

Visit our new MonumentMembers.com website!

Summary of Today's Podcast

We are looking for experienced speakers and debaters or coaches to help contribute to the 2017-2018 content strategy for our Monument Memberships. Listen to this podcast and submit your application.

Why?

1. You will be able to pass on your expertise to the next generation of competitors.
2. You will have your piece published in a scholarly representation of the next year of competition.
3. You will have Chris Jeub and Monument Publishing as future recommendation (I write recommendation letters for my authors all the time).
4. You will continue your winning streak by working with a group of other winners.
5. You will make money. Monument Publishing pays its authors for the contributions they print.

We are looking specifically for three contents areas and three leagues for those areas.

1. Policy. This is for policy debaters. We are prepared to support NCFCA and Stoa debate all year long, and NSDA through the summer months.
2. Lincoln-Douglas. This is for Lincoln-Douglas debaters. We are prepared to support NSDA, NCFCA and Stoa debate.
3. Public Forum (NEW!). This is a brand new offering for Monument Publishing. We are releasing Green Book for Public Forum Debate in June and plan to offer releases for public forum debaters throughout the year.
4. Extemp (NEW!). This is for extemporaneous speaking. Releases consist of one focal news item for the week as well as one full tournament of questions for practice.
5. Apologetics. I plan to rewrite all the lessons this year, releasing one piece of study every Monument Monday.
6. Parli (NEW!). This is for parliamentary debaters. Releases consist of a deeper-level resolution to be debated as well as a tournament of resolutions for practice.

It is somewhat surprising when we realize how much we publish every year. It’s a lot! There are others involved in publishing materials for competitors, but no one as long as Monument Publishing. We need committed and responsible editors and writers to contribute to the team. Perhaps you would like to join us! Monument Publishing contributors need to be good…

• Responders. Firm deadlines are a necessary evil in our industry. Educators are literally beating on our door waiting for the release of our resources every summer, so editors and writers need to be extremely responsible in meeting their deadlines.
• People. Character is of utmost importance to us, both online and offline. Immorality or questionable conduct is never attractive to us, and we aim to partner with young people who are good role models among their peers.
• Writers. We have an editing team, but they need to read a lot of content. All contributors must have good-to-excellent writing skills.
• Competitors. We will choose good writing over competitive success, but it helps if you were a champion in that which you’re contributing. Your competitive success shows that you know what you’re writing about.
• Teachers. We especially like those competitors who have helped coach other competitors, even when they were competitors themselves. Team captains and club coaches tend to be the best contributors to that which we do here at Monument Publishing.

Do you feel you will be a welcome addition to the Monument Publishing team? Submit your application by filling out this online form. Applicants will be selected for the next publishing cycle. Upon acceptance, you will be sent a contract to approve. Then the work begins!

Summary of Today's Podcast

For the past two weeks, nearly 100 of you filled out our Season 17 Survey. The feedback was incredible! Much of it led to brand new changes to our Season 18 development. Chris Jeub, the owner of Monument Publishing, reads through the second 1/2 the surveys and makes some key announcements.

You still can get your word in!

Take Survey

Also, be sure to check out our new website, in beta through May. Get on board and receive valuable content from now till June 1! Check it out:

Visit MonumentMembers.com

 

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For the past two weeks, nearly 100 of you filled out our Season 17 Survey. The feedback was incredible! Much of it led to brand new changes to our Season 18 development. Chris Jeub, the owner of Monument Publishing, reads through 1/2 the surveys and makes some key announcements.

You still can get your word in!

Take Survey

Also, be sure to check out our new website, in beta through May. Get on board and receive valuable content from now till June 1! Check it out:

Visit MonumentMembers.com

This is a short podcast today, simply calling on all listeners and users of Monument Publishing sources to fill out a simple survey. You get a free download when you do... Click here!