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#28 HUMOROUS SPEECH & EVALUATION CONTESTS ANOTHER GIANT SUCCESS!!
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Article: "AIM FOR 7TH HEAVEN!" CLUB
#28 EYES #7 STRAIGHT PRESIDENT'S DISTINGUISHED! (Click
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LEADERSHIP, DUES AND MEETING ROOMS: A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT
DENNIS GOLA!
COME
UP WITH A MOTTO FOR OUR CLUB!!
SPEAKER
TIPS:Learn to be a better speaker (FAST!) with these GREAT Tips!! (Click
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MORE NEWS!
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AWARDS
ABOUND!
Barbara Cusack Paul Hagge Dr. Mike Deichen Bob Blaydes
EARN CC and CL AWARDS!!! (Always
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Article!)
THE NON-VERBAL ART OF SPEECHMAKING! By Ken Walley
MEET
OUR NEW OFFICERS FOR THE JAN.- JUNE 2008 TERM!!
What
is the Central Florida Dead or Alive Show? By Diana Walley
CLUB #28 EYES
INCREDIBLE 7TH PRESIDENT'S DISTINGUISHED AWARD!! AIM
FOR 7TH HEAVEN!
By Dr. Mike Deichen, Vice President of Education
and Kenneth H. Walley, Website Editor:
Club #28 has done something truly extraordinarily
difficult for a Toastmaster Club to accomplish. We won six
straight President's Distinguished Awards from 1999
to 2005! We were unable to achieve our 7th straight for the last
Toastmaster term but we gave it a good try. The award is rare even among large Toastmaster Clubs because it requires that
all of the club's members take a part in earning it. It is the highest
award that Toastmasters International can bestow upon an individual club, For a
club our size to have accomplish this feat for six years in a row was been nothing
less than remarkable. But I believe that we should not rest on our laurels! We
have a wonderful opportunity to go for "7th Heaven!" our 7th in 2008/2009,
the 7th in the last 8 years...which would be still remarkable. We will keep
track here updating every week.
We will need at least 20 members in our club on June
30th 2008...I challenge this club to have at least 30 by then!
GOAL #1:
TWO
CC's (Competent Toastmaster / Completing Basic Manual):
1.)Paul Hagge (July 2008) 2.)
GOAL #2: TWO MORE
CC's!: 1.) 2.)
GOAL #3: ONE
AC
(Advanced Toastmaster) Bronze, Silver or Gold)! 1.)
GOAL #4: ONE MORE
ACB, ACS or ACG: 1.)
GOAL #5:DONE!
ONE CL
(Competent Leader Award), AL (Advanced Leader Award) or DTM
(Distinguished
Toastmaster Award)!:1.) Mike Deichen
GOAL #6: ONE MORE CL,
AL OR DTM:1.)
GOAL #7:DONE! FOUR NEW
MEMBERS! 1.) John Bonowitz-Coffey 2.) Monica Walley 3.) Stephen Bentley 4.)
Jesse Baker
GOAL #8:DONE! FOUR MORE NEW
MEMBERS!: 1.) Ed Dimayuga 2.) 3.) 4.)
GOAL #9: AT LEAST FOUR
OFFICERS TRAINED (Attending TI Officer Training): July/August 2008:
VPPR, Secretary, Treasurer
Jan.
2009: Pres. VPE, VPM, VPPR, Sec. Treasurer, Secretary, SAA.
GOAL #10: SUBMITTED ON
TIME: SEMI-ANNUAL PER CAPS SUBMITTED ON TIME AND AT LEAST ONE CLUB OFFICER LIST!:
Semi Annual (Per Caps) due by 9/30/2008 and
3/30/20098:
Per Caps #1: Per Caps #2:
Officer List due by
12/31/08 and 06/30/09: DONE!
Club #28 is also in easy reach of a 7th President's Distinguish award. No other club in our Area had won as
many of these top honors as our club and we are going to keep going and going
because we want to GO TO #7 HEAVEN IN 2009!! WE ROCK!
SPEAKER TIPS:
5 Super Duper Basic Speaking Tips:
1. Rehearse.
Practice until you have confidence. Practice in front of a mirror. Tape yourself
while practicing until it sounds just the way you want it to sound. 2. Visualize.
"See" the audience in your mind and how you would like them to react
to different parts of your speech. 3. Give a
performance, your audience will react to your
emotions, actions and feelings as much as they will to the words. Speak from the
heart. 4. No notes.
Use sincerity and Conviction instead. 5. Use a
conversational tone. Speak to your audience as if
you were speaking to a single, close friend.
5 Non-Verbal ways to hold your Audience:
1. Vary the
"tone" of your body language: A relaxed
speech relaxes your audience and might put them to sleep. A rigid speech might
have them thinking you are scolding them! You are not their mom!
2.You are what you wear! Dress for the part. A well
dressed speaker demands respect. 3. Work the room!
Speak to different "zones" and get out from behind the lectern. 4.
Create the environment you want. Get
to the location before your audience and have props, projectors and effects set
up and ready to go. Create some "magic"! 5.
Eye contact, eye
contact, eye contact!
Speech Writing Tips (From
Paul Meunier, DTM): 1.
Pick a Topic that interests you. 2. Pick a Topic that does NOT interest
you! Almost any topic becomes interesting with a little research. 3.
Let
your Ideas Flow. 4. Focus on Your
Theme. Use outlining or mind-mapping to begin
to get your ideas down. 5. Less is More. The shorter the speech, the better! 6.
The Power of a Personal Story. 7. Practice your
Speech. Rehearse OUT LOUD in
front of a mirror, to a tape recorder, and with your mentor. 8. Memorize Your
Beginning and Ending!
The Power of Speech, A
Six Point Checklist:
1. Strong Start. 2.
Pause for Effect and Drama. 3.
Eye Contact. 5. Enthusiasm and Energy. 5.
Conversational Style. 6.
Humor.
Trite Phrases
Guaranteed to Lose Your Audience:
1. "Without Further ado..." 2.
"Last but not least..." 3. None other than..." 4.At this point in
time..." 4. "Let me turn over the lectern ..." 5. As you probably
already know..." 6. I don't want to bore you, but..." 6. "Now as
I was saying..." 7. "Thank you so much for having me..." 8.
"This speaker needs no introduction..." 9. "Let's give a BIG HAND
to..." 10. "I'm Sorry 'bout that.."