I wanted to write about my experiences of Toastmasters in the U.S. compared with my experiences with it in the U.K. While the main focus will be geared towards fellow Toastmasters, I will try provide useful information for the non-member too. The great thing about Toastmasters is that essentially you can pretty much go to …
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May 16
President Obama’s 2,000 Year Old Speaking Secret
If you have to make presentations as part of your job you might be able to pick up some useful tips from this post. This post is a kind of follow up to my post Lessons from President Obama’s Inaugural Speech. This is also a great post for those who are working their way through …
Apr 29
Twitter and Presentations: The Ultimate Interruption?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you would’ve heard about Twitter. Now, it seems, even live presenters aren’t immune from it’s charms. Speaker Olivia Mitchell blogged about using Twitter in a presentation. She provides some very useful tips on harnessing the power of this new social communication tool…
Apr 18
Humorously Speaking, project 1
Are you a member of Toastmasters International and have completed your 10 speeches earning you Competent Communicator status and are looking to start the Advanced Manuals? Maybe you’re considering doing the Humorously Speaking Manual? Keep in mind that the Humorous Speech Contest comes up once a year. Or perhaps you just want to learn an …
Mar 04
Interview with 2008 Evaluation Champion
The International Speech Contest and Evaluation Contest is just around the corner here in the U.K. I recently managed to secure an interview with Hilary Briggs, chairman of ACE Group 29, The Academy for Chief Executives, Area 33 Governor and, most importantly for the purposes of this blog, U.K. and Ireland Evaluation Champion 2008. I wanted …
