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Most Shared Public Speaking Tips on Facebook

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Here are some of the most shared articles about public speaking tips on Facebook from the past 12 months:
Source: buzzsumo.com

10 Tips to Beat Your Fear of Public Speaking

  1. Prepare.
  2. Understand your fears.
  3. Loosen up.
  4. Be human.
  5. Tell a Joke.
  6. Keep it light.
  7. Pause.
  8. Don’t try to sell something.
  9. Don’t fear your audience.
  10. Be willing to make mistakes.

7 tips for becoming an excellent public speaker

  1. Practice transitioning from a transcript to your memory.
  2. Use notes sparingly.
  3. Release nervous energy with controlled breathing and lay off the coffee.
  4. Take your time.
  5. Place to your strengths.
  6. Don’t apologize at the start of your speech.
  7. Know your audience.

The 17 Public Speaking Tips You Can’t Afford to Ignore

  1. You don’t have to tell them what you’re going to tell them.
  2. Cut, cut, cut!
  3. An entire story is designed to serve the end.
  4. The speech starts with your bio, before you walk onstage.
  5. Establish right away that you know what the world looks like for them—and what it could look like.
  6. Reward your audience for participating or contributing in some way.
  7. Use open hands with your palms up instead of your finger for pointing.
  8. People say yes when we’ve affected them intellectually, emotionally or physically.
  9. Outline your content and then unpack it.
  10. Use props.
  11. Use contrast and extremes to create excitement and keep attention.
  12. Keep moving forward. Never let your energy drop.
  13. Audiences like to think that events on the stage are happening spontaneously.
  14. Stand and land.
  15. You can move and talk at the same time.
  16. Don’t say, “I’m glad to be here.” Show them that you’re glad to be there instead.
  17. Don’t tell them you’re going to tell a story. Just tell the story.

Command The Crowd: 3 Tips To Overcome Your Fear Of Public Speaking

  1. Focus on your breathing.
  2. Practice three times as much as you think you need.
  3. Visualize the situation.

#1 Tip for Getting Past the Fear of Public Speaking

  • Don’t focus on yourself. Shift the focus from YOU to the AUDIENCE.

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.

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Useful Public Speaking Tips for Beginners

Powerful Public Speaking Tips for Beginners

Public speaking can be really daunting!

Fear of public speaking

Here are some useful public speaking tips for beginners:

1. Open with a story.
2. Eliminate fears before you go on stage.
3. Know your content.
4. Be prepared for tech failures.
5. No one wants you to fail.

For details, please check out the below YouTube video.

 

Check out the following speaking tips too.

18 Powerful Public Speaking Tips For Absolute Beginners
Source:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/18-powerful-public-speaking-tips-absolute-beginners-haldorsen

1. Act In-Spite of Yourself – Just Do It!
2. Always Build On Your Strengths
3. Practice with People You Know and Feel Comfortable With (Including Yourself in The Mirror!)
4. Record yourself to Train your Voice and Body Language
5. Carefully Study and Emulate Your Favorite Public Speaker(s)
6. Become a Serious Armchair Public Speaking and Body Language Expert
7. Work on Ditching The Notes
8. Have Plans for the Unexpected
9. Do Pre-Event Promotion
10. Add Social Sites to your Actual Presentation – Especially Twitter!
11. Establish a Pre-Speaking Routine
12. Exercise and Breath before Your Speech
13. Thank Your Audience When You’re Done
14. Analyze Your Performance For Next Time
15. Don’t Talk Right Away
16. Never Start with An Apology
17. Show up to Give, Rather than Take
18. Choose to Turn Your Nervous Energy into Contagious Excitement

Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Public Speaking Tips on Gestures & Body Language

Tips on Gestures & Body Language

Gestures and body language can be distracting and detract from the message of your speech if not used properly.

Learn how to improve your public speaking skills on gestures and body language by channeling nervous energy into purposeful movement.

Check out the following videos on gestures and body language.

 

Ask Darren: Public Speaking: What is a good body
language?

Make Body Language Your Superpower

It is an instructional video on using body language effectively presented by a few Stanford graduate students.

Gestures and Body Language

Types of Gestures:

  • Descriptive
  • Emphatic
  • Suggestive
  • Prompting

Coordinating gestures, eye contact and walking can be a challenge. Limit the number of times you walk when you arrive at your destination. Be sure to stay there and make eye contact, you can perfect this technique with practice.

Practice is the key to helping you improve on your communication and presentation skills. Join Toastmasters and find a club that you like to practise your speeches in a friendly environments.  You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Toastmasters International 90th Anniversary

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.

You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club if you are living in Singapore.

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Flash News – 1st Runner Up

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

Seah@TIConvention2014

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.

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Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club Executive Committee 2014-2015

Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Executive Committee 2014-2015 was installed on 28th June 2014.

From left to right:
Installation Officer: District Governor, Pradeep Kumar DTM
Club President : Jun Allego
VP Education (2) Geetha 
VP Education (1): Puspita
VP Membership& IPP: Reuben
VP Public Relations: Ramana
Treasurer : James Leung
Secretary : Tricia
Sergeant At Arms: Zong Han

Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club Executive Committee 2014-2015

Please join us in congratulating the newly elected Exco.
Wishing for another successful term for our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club.

Practice is the key to helping you improve in public speaking. You are welcome to visit our Kampong Ubi Toastmasters Club  as a guest if you are living in Singapore.

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