They say that the fear of speaking in public is greater than the fear of death.It usually turns out that many of us fear what others will say about us. We are afraid to look stupid, mess up, lose our train of thought or God forbid, appear to be boring. When we are […]

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If you watch America’s Got Talent then you have seen how some of the acts get booed off the stage within seconds. If the acts do not engage the audience from the very beginning, the audience is bored, turned off, and doesn’t want to listen any more.
If you do public speaking and make presentations, you […]

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We ran the TableTopics Strategy Workshop this Wednesday evening at Socially Speaking Toastmasters in Brookfield, CT. If you know anyone in the Brookfield, CT area that is interested in Toastmasters, this is certainly a great club to join !
The evening was alot of fun and we went the the updated TableTopics Strategy Workshop Handout (click […]

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I just heard about an interesting speaking “format” called Ignite.
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers…Ignite usually has two parts: the Ignite Contest, […]

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