Susan Rayner

Public Speaking Northern Lights

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From Rona Harding, President Northern Lights Speakers

public speaking Northern Lights Public speaking Northern Lights, our public speaking club is moving!

Where: The Star Pub, 47 Chester Road, London N19 5DF. Meeting room on 1st floor.

When: We will have our first meeting on Monday 5 January 2015 and our second meeting on Monday 19 January. However, from February we will be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month ie, 9 and 23 February and so on. Meetings will begin 7.15 pm as usual.

Public speaking Northern Lights. Getting there and getting started!

By Car: If you drive, you can park anytime after 12 noon on the street and surrounding streets. Please note that Chester Road is one-way.

Buses: The C11 and No.4 Bus leave Archway station and stop outside the pub (3rd stop).

Walking: It is approximately 10 minutes walk between Archway Station and the Star Pub. You can also walk from Tufnell Park Station which is via a hill.

Why don’t you make a date to visit us next Monday or very soon. Our meeting dates are on our website. Click here to view. We’d love to have you join our club and build your confidence and public speaking skills.

 

City Limits

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Marylee at City Limits December 2014We had two international visitors at City Limits (our newest morning London Toastmasters club) last week. Santa had time on his hands before he gets busy next week and…Marylee Mims District 25 Governor (a District with 160 clubs) joined the meeting as she was visiting from Texas.

(Pic L to R: Jill Segal, Div B Governor, Marylee, Santa, Dorothea Stuart District 91 PRO)

As you can imagine a good time was had by all!

City Limits, public speaking club, meets on Thursday mornings 7.15am start at Brasserie Blanc, Chancery Lane. If you have friends or colleagues who need Toastmasters please encourage them to come to the first meeting of 2015 on 8 January. Details are on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/City-Limits-Speakers/

Youth Leadership Harrow

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From Andrew P Bennett DTM District 91 Youth Leadership Adviser

Yet more exciting news from Toastmasters Youth Leadership comes in the form of a new program at Stanmore High School.

Stanmore school teacher Richard Fowler attended a Youth Leadership briefing event I ran in October and was very keen to see the program launched at his school.

The next step was to find a sponsoring club and this came in the form of the ever effervescent HOD Speakers with President Tony Winyard and Toastmaster Gill Ornstein becoming program co-ordinators.

Stanmore Toastmasters Youth Leadership meets fortnightly on a Monday afternoon and accompanying teacher Richard runs an extra speaking session himself on the alternate weeks to consolidate the learning.

I was able to attend the very first session which began with our customary getting to know you exercise. The young people interview each other for a minute and then present their Interviewee to the group – a useful Ice Breaker which sees to it that every participant says at least a few words from the outset.

Tony and Gill decided to present the discussion on what makes a good speech in the form of good cop / bad cop.

Tony did a big introduction for Gill ‘ the great speaker.’ Gill then took to the stage and displayed every speaking fault you could think of – no eye contact, wandering around , mumbling voice , looking at the floor , waving arms – all of which greatly amused the young people as it was intended to. All credit to Gill who is really such an accomplished speaker – not easy to do it all wrong!

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Stratford Personal Storytelling

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From Chris Sarfo President Stratford London Toastmasters

We are pleased to invite you to join us Stratford Speakers for our personal storytelling workshop on Monday 15 December 2014. Storytelling is an art that all public speakers need! Personal stories have the great advantage of being authentic, engaging and unique. Our workshop led by experienced Toastmaster and Storytelling Julie Kertesz DTM who will help us explore a variety of storytelling tips.

We look forward to having you with us.

Time: 6pm-8pm Venue: The Hopkins Room, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, London E15 1EL

Please tell your friends about the club. We’re the only one in the area and welcome guests and potential new members.

Best speeches 2014. Announced by Toastmasters International

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best speeches 2014Toastmasters International Lists 7 Most Buzzworthy Speeches 2014
Presentations that captured the attention of audiences around the world

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Dec. 10, 2014 What is the secret to giving a speech that is viewed and shared by millions of people? A successful speech resonates with interesting content and a heartfelt delivery. After viewing the most discussed and shared presentations of the year, Toastmasters International considers the following seven speeches most buzzworthy in 2014…

You can see the list of best speeches 2014 here:

Read the full list here: http://www.toastmasters.org/About/Media-center

How can you learn from these speeches? What might you do differently when you are writing your next speech or giving your next speech!?