Building Leaders

How to Become an Ideal Leader When you are at work, do you get frustrated because things don’t seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to be? You see people milling around but nothing gets accomplished. And in the daily hustle and bustle, do you feel that your goals remain just that – goals….

Develop Leadership and Communication Skills With Toastmasters

How to Become an Ideal Leader When you are at work, do you get frustrated because things don’t seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to be? You see people milling around but nothing gets accomplished. And in the daily hustle and bustle, do you feel that your goals remain just that – goals….

Understanding

Make it Understandable If your audience doesn’t understand you, they can’t be persuaded by you. To be an effective communicator, you’ve first got to be a clear communicator. To be a clear communicator, you must use words, phrases, examples, and visuals that are understandable, and you’ve got to deliver them at a pace that the…

Stories

WHERE DO WE FIND STORIES? by J.A. Gamache Third place Champion at the 2001 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking There are many tools you can use to illustrate a speech. You could show an image, quote a statistic or even develop an analogy. However, telling a story is my favourite technique for getting…

Build Your Vocabulary

  Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can’t do that way when you’re flying words. “Careful with fire,” is good advice we know, “Careful with words,” is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed many sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can’t kill them when they’re said. —Will Carleton, The First…

Opportunity

It is important to take the opportunity to practice your public speaking.  One of the ways is to attend Toastmasters meetings. I take advantage of my various roles to incorporate my writing as well as my speaking skills. Our theme for one of our weekly Toastmasters’ Meeting this week was Opportunity and I had the…