Category: Featured

  • Storytelling: a Compelling Story Makes Any Speech Better

    Storytelling: a Compelling Story Makes Any Speech Better

    A compelling story makes any speech better. Lorraine Campbell shows how it’s done. About the Speaker Lorraine Campbell currently serves as an active board member for the Customer Involved Government Committee with the City of Coral Springs. She has served on the board since 2005 and has been a member of The Youth Voting committee [Read More]

  • The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Replay)

    The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Replay)

    “Feedback” is so much more than that special section of our Toastmasters meetings where we receive an immediate evaluation of our speech. If only it worked like that in “real life” too! Throughout both our personal and professional lives, we are often faced with giving, as well as receiving feedback. At work, for instance, you [Read More]

  • Replay: Let your voice (and your accent) be heard in your next speech

    Replay: Let your voice (and your accent) be heard in your next speech

    Thanks to Edith Oliva of Communicating Cultures, a former Club Awesome President, for this program on how those who speak a second language can learn to communicate more effectively. This was a Club Awesome community event held March 20, 2021. An interruption in the program caused by technical difficulties has been edited out.

  • Video: “Speak to Win!” by Justin Marguriet, District Humorous Speaking Champion

    Video: “Speak to Win!” by Justin Marguriet, District Humorous Speaking Champion

    Justin Marguriet, the Toastmasters District 47 Humorous Speaking Champion for 2020, was our guest speaker on August 14. Hear what he has to say about why you should compete in the humorous contest, his tips on speaking on Zoom, and how you can write a winning speech in less than a week. For inspiration, watch [Read More]

  • See Tyler Storer’s District Contest Speech

    See Tyler Storer’s District Contest Speech

    After winning contests at the club, area, and division level, Tyler Storer competed against some of the best speakers from South Florida and The Bahamas on May 29. His speech: “Once Cut Down, One Grows Back Stronger.”

  • Video: Bruce Pockey, “I Had a Whole Different Speech Planned”

    Video: Bruce Pockey, “I Had a Whole Different Speech Planned”

    Longtime member Bruce Pockey delivers an Icebreaker, the introductory speech which is the first speech every Toastmaster gives — and one that’s worth returning to because introducing ourselves to the world is something we do all the time.

  • Video: Better Speaker Workshop

    Video: Better Speaker Workshop

    The opening ceremony and keynote by Godfrey McAllister “So You Think You Can Compete?” Panel Discussion Lois Margolin: Why You Should Compete in the Humorous Speech Contest Devin Dickerson Humorous Speech Bernard Campbell: Evaluations in the Real World Dorrette Keen: Evaluations Speaker: Fernando Lopez Evaluator: Luiz Bravim Dorrette Keen: Evaluations (Follow Up)