Finished the Competent Communicator? Toastmasters’ Next Step
After the Competent Communicator manual is done, what’s next in Toastmasters? Why should you stay? Are you done? We’ve got a lot more to offer you.
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Go Big and Inspire Your Audience! Project 10
The Inspirational Speech, the last of the speech projects in the Competent Communicator manual, challenges you to pull together everything you’ve learned so far. Speech organization, presentation skills and the tricks of rhetoric to gain your audience’s attention and confidence all go together into a final speech project. This speech…
Two Keys to a Successful Persuasion Speech
Persuasion is the art of convincing people to do what you think it best and making them like the idea. How do you do it without sounding like a huckster?
Visual Aids: Make Your Speech Visually Stimulating
Engaging the Senses What’s the point of visual aids? I think that it’s about engaging more of your audience’s senses than just hearing you speak.
Research Your Credibility
How Your Audience Perceives You Research your audience before you get up to speak. I think most audiences can be classified as friendly, uninformed, or antagonistic. A Toastmasters meeting should be friendly and open to listening to your presentation. This kind of audience is the best kind for trying out…
Want to Improve Your Public Speaking? Consider Toastmasters.
Human usually learn to talk by the age of 3, so why do we also learn a fear of public speaking? If this describes you, then maybe Toastmasters is for you.