Aurora Colorado George Sutton Toastmasters Club
Improve Your Speaking, Communicating, and Leadership Skills and Have Fun Too!
I’ve been playing around with flyers and handouts for my Toastmasters club and came up with this idea. What do you think Toastmasters? If you were to be handed this by your boss or see it on a bulletin board or lying on a chair at Starbucks, would it get you curious enough to visit the GeorgeSuttonToastmasters website?
Here’s a link to the pdf if you’d like to get a copy and print it or send it to someone you know that should come and visit our club in Aurora Colorado. Guests are always welcome!
On August 22, the George Sutton Toastmasters club will be conducting its club Evaluation and Tall Tales competition. Since we usually have the Evaluation and “Humorous Speech” contest this time of year, I’d like to provide an introduction to what a Tall Tales contest is and describe a basic outline of what makes a “good” tall tales speech, fit for winning a Toastmasters competition. Then I’ll provide one of the best examples I found on YouTube for you to analyze and emulate in your own speech preparation.
Why Do We Have a Tall Tales Toastmasters Contest?
When someone asks me… Read Full Post »
From guest blogger, and George Sutton Toastmasters member,
Diane Burridge
Toastmasters is a great way to keep your mind active and have
fun at the same time.
In Toastmasters you will:
- Interact with people of all ages.
- Laugh.
- Make new friends.
- Listen to and provide feedback on short speeches covering a wide variety of topics.
- Give short speeches on topics of interest to you. These can be from your life experiences or can be on subjects that you want to research to gain new knowledge.
- If you choose to, you can assume leadership responsibilities.
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A guest blog post from former president of George Sutton Toastmasters, Marty Dickinson.
The first professional speaker I met joined my Toastmasters club in 1997 after I had been a member at George Sutton Toastmasters for two years. At first, I couldn’t understand why a “professional speaker,” with experience presenting to audiences of hundreds of people (…and getting paid for it!!), would want to waste his time with 5-7 minute speeches and hanging around people like me who still got nervous getting called up to deliver 1-2 minute impromptu responses during Table Topics.
In his Ice Breaker speech, the… Read Full Post »