Do you want to know a sure fire way to alienate large portions of your audience?
“You all know the next speaker…”
Can I let you in on a little secret? Not everyone knows the person that you are neglecting to introduce, so you always need to properly introduce someone. This common oversight only gets worse when [...]

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It is June, so that means it is time to elect a new slate of officers for the next Toastmaster year. If your club is like many I have worked with, this is crunch time. You have a few officers that want to stay, a few new candidates, but there are some glaring gaps in [...]

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Why don’t you practice your speeches more?

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I have observed hundreds of speakers in the past four years of my Toastmasters membership. It hasn’t mattered if those speakers are brand new or old-timers, you can always tell when they have not practiced. I see it in the reliance on their notes, the overuse [...]

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