One of the complaints that new speakers have is not having anything to speak about. Three and a half years ago, when I started my speaking voyage in Toastmasters, I agreed with that complaint. Now however, I see speech ideas everywhere and after you read this post, I hope that you agree with me. Today [...]

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Last night I attended an open speaking event, that wasn’t Toastmasters, where speakers were tasked to give an interesting 5 minute presentation. One of the presentations was a fabulous demonstration of drawing the audience in with an interesting story, making good use of PowerPoint to reinforce spoken points, and dressing to fit the speaker’s speaking [...]

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On December 29th, 2008, I interviewed Marty M. Fahncke of Conference Call University. During the call we discussed ways that conference call presenters can get better at presenting without that audience feedback that you get from live presentations. One technique we discussed was having an audience of Toastmasters in the room while presenting so that [...]

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Is your public speaking or Toastmasters progression stalled? Do you feel that you are not giving many speeches? Has it been awhile since you did anything leadership related? You my friend are in a rut. Looking through one of my Toastmasters manuals today, I realized that there were a lot of areas where people can [...]

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What almost caused me to get into an accident Monday night? A Toastmasters billboard along I-85 in South Carolina for District 58. What a great idea. I wish that more Districts where as proactive in coming up with new ways to promote Toastmasters. There is only one negative to the billboard. I couldn’t remember the [...]

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