Aurora Colorado George Sutton Toastmasters Club
Improve Your Speaking, Communicating, and Leadership Skills and Have Fun Too!
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 »
A well constructed speech introduction gets the audience excited for the topic and speaker. Poor introductions inspire the audience to look at the agenda to see who’s coming up…later.
Demand the attention from your audience by producing an introduction that keeps the audience in suspense and whets their appetite to focus on your speech. Here are five steps to do that.
- Put yourself in the place of the Toastmaster – The Toastmaster of the Day (the MC or Master of Ceremonies) may not get the opportunity to read your introduction…until your introduction time occurs. Plan your introduction around… Read Full Post »
We are one day away from the International Speech Contest District 26 competition here in Denver Colorado on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Eight finalists representing more than 150 clubs throughout Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska will speak for 5-7 minutes to see who will leave with the big trophy and advance to the International championship in Las Vegas this August!
Competitors first had to win the contest at their club level, then advanced to the area, where a person usually competes against 3-5 contestants from other clubs. The winner from there advances to the Division contest, where the competition… Read Full Post »