Since 1924 Toastmasters International has helped more than four million people gain the confidence to communicate. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speaking skills. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.
Celebrating the Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary!
“Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
The organization grew out of a single club, Smedley Chapter One Club, which would become the first Toastmasters club. It was founded by Ralph C. Smedley on October 22, 1924, at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, United States. Toastmasters International was incorporated under California law on December 19, 1932. Throughout its history, Toastmasters has served over four million people, and today the organization serves over 313,000 members in 126 countries, through its over 14,650 member clubs.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International
“This October marks the 90th anniversary of Toastmasters International. Since 1924, Toastmasters has helped millions of members empower themselves by gaining communication and leadership skills, enabling them to lead richer lives.
Over nine decades, Toastmasters has evolved from a small network of clubs in Southern California to more than 14,650 clubs in 126 countries, with membership…” More info can be found at http://www.toastmasters.org/About/90th-Anniversary
Speaking with confidence is really useful. However, not everyone can do it. Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like.
1. Always start with a message when crafting your speech
“This message is whatever you want your audience to be thinking about when your presentation concludes…”
2. Be confident enough to be yourself
“You need to sell yourself before you sell your message,” Hettiarachi says… The only way to go in front of an audience and to present in a way that isn’t simply miming is to practice again and again, pretending (if need be) that you’re talking to a room full of your closest friends.”
3. See yourself through your audience’s eyes
“Novice speakers tend to become wrapped up in themselves, which may just be because they’re afraid to acknowledge a room full of listeners. But if you’re going to speak, you need to realize that you’re doing it for the benefit of others, not yourself…”
4. Have a forum to practice
“For Hettiarachchi, his Toastmasters group provided a place to grow as a speaker, but he says any kind of similar forum is suitable, because like any skill, you must practice public speaking to become and then stay great at it…”
5. Find the right coach or mentor
Hettiarachchi says, you should find someone willing to help you grow as a public speaker. Interestingly, this does not need to be someone who can teach you advanced speaking techniques; they just need to be someone who “gives you permission to explore possibilities, who gives you permission to fail,” he says…
Dananjaya Hettiarachchi World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 Full Speech, “I See Something”
The below are some selected YouTube videos from other World Champions of Pubic Speaking. Enjoy! 🙂
Presentation Skills Training from 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking Craig Valentine
Winning Toastmasters Motivational Speeches by 2001 World Champion Darren LaCroix at NSA
Jim Key World Champion of Public Speaking 2003 Full Speech, “Never Too Late”
Randy Harvey World Champion of Public Speaking 2004 Full Speech, “Lesson from Fat Dad“
Lance Miller World Champion of Public Speaking 2005 Full Speech, “The Ultimate Question”
Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.
P.S. World Champions of Public Speaking Winning Speeches Playlist
We’re pleased to announce that our club member Sean Seah Weiming brought a colossal glory to our club yesterday by achieving 1st runner up in the semi-final 2 speech contest at the 2014 Toastmasters International Convention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s a world wide competition.
Let’s congratulate Seah for his achievement!
“My race in the contest has ended this year, but it is a new beginning for my journey in this big family Toastmasters Singapore!
Grateful for the support and chance to represent Singapore as we speak alongside friends from 100 over countries! Want to thank friends who have helped me in this superb learning experience.”
– Sean Seah Weiming
Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.
Our club member, Sean Seah Weiming received Champion trophy for the Division U International Speech Contest 2014, from the Guest of Honour, Mr Heng Chee How, Senior Minister of State (Prime Minister Office) & Member of Parliament for Whampoa SMC .
He also achieved 1st Runner up in Division U Table Topics Contest 2014. We are proud of his achievement. Thank you Sean, for making our club proud!
KUTMC International Speech & Table Topics Contests 2014
Dear Friends,
Let us congratulations to all the participants of ‘International speech and table topics contest’!
I am glad to announce the winners once again.
Speech contest
Champion- Suhail Hamid
1st runner-up – Sean Seah
Table topics contest:
Champion- Sean Seah
1st runner-up – Kwan Hong
2nd runner-up – Puspita
The winners will represent the Kampong Ubi Toastmasters club for the Area U4 contest on 15 March 2014.
– Thank you
Dr. Suvarna Latha
VPE, KUTMC
——– Join a toastmaster club and learn how to overcome your public speaking fear. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.
“World Champion Speaker Reveals his #1 Key to Overcoming Fear Eliminating the Negative Self-Talk, and & Delivering a Clear Message…Even If This is Your Very First Speech.”
