Aurora Colorado George Sutton Toastmasters Club
Improve Your Speaking, Communicating, and Leadership Skills and Have Fun Too!
Last night, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, we were honored to be invited to present at the Colorado Technical University Aurora Campus at their career fair.
We met students from a variety of nationalities and age groups as we talked about the importance of learning how to give good presentations and practice public speaking and presentation skills on a weekly basis…in a supportive environment.
My story was always the same when students asked me about Toastmasters, where I would say, “If I was in a Toastmasters club when I was in college, I would have gotten A’s in all of my… Read Full Post »
If you were to invite me to your house for dinner and I immediately took on a look of disgust and commented how dirty your house was and started blurting out, “Eew Gross! What kind of paint job is that on your walls?” What would happen? I probably wouldn’t make it to the dinner table. You’d throw me right out the front door in disgust!
Then, why did every speaker at both Democratic and Republican National Conventions have that disgusted look on their face covering from A-Z why you shouldn’t vote for “the other guy?”
Don’t they realize anyone on… Read Full Post »
There are literally thousands of skills, techniques and habits that can improve your presentation. Here are 101 of them:
- Follow a proven plan for outlining and delivering a successful presentation
- Recruit a mentor to help you through the development of your speech
- Practice!
- Use an example about yourself
- Organize your speech with a definite opening, conclusion and a few points in the middle
- Clearly state your speech goal at the beginning
- Make sure every element of your speech focuses on that goal
- Examine your word choice carefully
- Structure your sentences
- Research and know your audience before you present to them… Read Full Post »
Some people join Toastmasters to overcome their fear of public speaking. Others simply want a quick fix of speaking skills. Once the goal is accomplished (which might take some three months and others three years or more) the fulfilled Toastmasters member will decide to leave the club. Most, however, stay to evolve their skills over time to see how good they can really become at speaking.
Once in a while, a member will choose another route. That is the path of the professional speaker.
How can you make the transition to paid professional speaking from the Toastmasters club floor? Here… Read Full Post »
You can start to lose weight several times throughout your life and buy every exercise machine you see on t.v. at 2am, but you only truly change your lifestyle once to lose the weight and keep the weight off forever.
If this saying is true for weight loss, is it possible that Toastmasters is like losing weight as well?
Definitely!
People join Toastmasters for a variety of reasons. The purpose they choose is similar to any diet regimen or the quest to lose weight. We all join hoping Toastmasters will change our lives by giving us that weekly exercise of… Read Full Post »