10 Tips for Public Speaking

Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and even beneficial, but too much nervousness can be detrimental.

Here are some proven tips on how to control your butterflies and give better presentations:

1. Know your material. Pick a topic you are interested in. Know more about it than you include in your speech. Use humor, personal stories and conversational language – that way you won’t easily forget what to say.

2. Practice. Practice. Practice! Rehearse out loud with all equipment you plan on using. Revise as necessary. Work to control filler words; Practice, pause and breathe. Practice with a timer and allow time for the unexpected.

3. Know the audience. Greet some of the audience members as they arrive. It’s easier to speak to a group of friends than to strangers.

4. Know the room. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the microphone and any visual aids.

5. Relax. Begin by addressing the audience. It buys you time and calms your nerves. Pause, smile and count to three before saying anything. ("One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand. Pause. Begin.) Transform nervous energy into enthusiasm.

6. Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear and confident. Visualize the audience clapping – it will boost your confidence.

7. Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative and entertaining. They’re rooting for you.

8. Don’t apologize for any nervousness or problem – the audience probably never noticed it.

9. Concentrate on the message – not the medium. Focus your attention away from your own anxieties and concentrate on your message and your audience.

10. Gain experience. Mainly, your speech should represent you — as an authority and as a person. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking. A Toastmasters club can provide the experience you need in a safe and friendly environment.

(the articles is obtained from the Toastmasters International website)

BUILD our FUTURE LEADERS

PURPOSE OF THE YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

The Youth Leadership Development Workshop is based on the belief that every young person has the potential to become a good communicator and leader, but the potential needs to be developed. The programme's unique design enables participants to develop this potential through practical experience. Participants learn speaking and leadership skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. They learn to:

• overcome the nervousness everyone feels when asked to speak before an audience
• organise and present their ideas logically and convincingly
• listen carefully to others' ideas
• offer advice that will help others improve their speaking and leadership skills
• participate in and even lead group discussions or meetings


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It will be an experience worth going through, and skills to equip you for the rest of your life!

Self Confidence

Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits.

Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you. Perception is reality — the more self confidence you have, the more likely it is you’ll succeed.

Do you think highly of yourself?

It has been said that if you treat yourself well, the world will treat you even better. Remember, you are a beautiful person in your own unique way. And you are valuable, worthy and lovable.

Confidence is knowing you are special, unique and individual. Confidence is holding your head up high and walking with your shoulders and back straight - whether or not you know all the answers.

Optimism is a major KEY in being confident.

Telling yourself, "I am beautiful" or seeing a situation with optimistic thoughts, will help you to increase your confidence in bad situations.

How others look at you or what they say about you, is not yours to bother about. A positive way of looking at it, is to know that you are NOT like them who think poorly of others.

Hence, let's look at ourselves in the mirror and see how great a man or woman you are!

Building Strong Towers

Meetings are a time where new ideas can be obtained from one another. A place where we learn and where we teach.

Optimism and Positivity.

It builds you up in a world where criticism is a way of life.


Here, at MIM Toastmasters Club, we build high-rised buildings - strong enough to withstand typhoons and earthquakes.




Some pictures of our previous meetings.

MOONing over Mid-Autumn Festival

Themed meetings are always fun and interesting.

Our Toastmaster of the Evening (TME), CTM Doreen, made it an excellent time for all of us. She linked 'moon' to refer to the actual moon and not only for lanterns and mooncakes.

TME - CTM Doreen!!

SHOOTING OFF TO THE MOON!
WHOOOOOOOSH....

Lanterns were ALL OVER the room, making it colourful and bright.

Table Topics Master

Happy birthday to you... May this year be the BEST of the BEST!

Our club's latest addition: TM Steven

With Love... From our Club's President

Fellow Members ,

It was a wonderful night on last Tuesday 15 September 09, credit to our organizing chair cum vice president of education who has made the club level humorous speech and evaluation contest run smoothly. Laughters always come together with humorous speaking . One cannot be deny that all the contestants in the contest were quipped the incredible skills who make the meeting lively and full of fun. On top of these, the evaluation contest was conducted within the planned time frame and all the contestants had presented constructive, beneficial and yet simple evaluations.

It is my pleasure here to congratulate our award winners and contestants , you have really made a difference and done a very good job . Our club is proud of your achievement and appreciate your endeavor to prepare such a meaningful speech. On the 4th of October at Cheshire home, ours club champions and 1st runner ups will represent our club to take part in the contests for area A4.

For the club members who missed the great chance to witness and enjoy the contest, the following consists of the names of the award winner in our club level contest.

Humorous Speech Contest
1. TM Charlotte Goh - Champion
2. ACB Jason Kum - 1st Runner Up
3. IPP CC Simon Tan - 2nd Runner Up

Evaluation Contest
1. ACS Harold Angus -Champion
2. ACB Jason Kum - 1st Runner Up
3. IPP CC Simon Tan - 2nd Runner Up

Fellow members who missed the chance to participate in the contest, please do not be disappointed . There is still ample of program on the way, my team and i will keep you all updated .

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Warmest Regards
President of MIM TM Club of JB
Glenn Koh

MIM TM Club Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest

Humour is to make people laugh. Humour is to cause people to feel good and happy.

A contest is not only to see who is the funniest of them all, but to also compare and challenge oneself with others.

Hence, your result is to see who can make the audience laugh the MOST.

Welcome to MIM Toastmasters Club of Johor Bahru's Humour Speech and Evaluation Contest.

Our Organising Chairman - the one and only CC Ee Jun Wai.



Following the humourous speeches, we had the evealuation contest, where we had our test speaker Yvonne from Sacred Heart Toastmasters Club to help us with the evaluation contest.

Kudos to the Champions!



Humorous Speech Contest:
Champion: TM Charlotte Goh (Kids Talk)
1St Runner Up: ACB Jason Kum (My Midlife Crisis)
2nd Runner Up: IPP CC Simon Tan (Why I Joined Toastmasters)

Evaluation Contest:
Champion: ACS Harold Angus
1st Runner Up: ACB Jason Kum
2nd Runner Up: IPP CC Simon Tan


Some pictures of the lovely evening:

IPP Sleeping?

ATB Victor Lim giving his Evaluation Speech

ACB Jason Kum wow-ing us with his midlife crisis (?)

Our own President with his humorous speech on 'Examinations'. An experience indeed, he confessed.