It’s good to have a regular full body check to make sure your body stays in great shape. Similarly in Toastmasters we do a regular full speech check up to make sure your skills stay in great shape as well. Every ...
Table Topics on “Predicting the Future”
Did you know that the popular TV show Simpsons predicted about Donald Trump becoming the President, destruction of World Trade Centre and several other events in advance? When things panned out as shown in the series, it went all over the internet. I will give you the same opportunity ...
A Timer’s script on not wasting people’s time
Do you know what the easiest way to spoil someone’s mood is? Just waste their time. Keep them waiting at a restaurant or show them a third rated movie or make them listen to a needlessly long, beaten around the bush talk. If you are not careful, the third example can be you and you would be ...
A Grammarian script on becoming a Distinguished Toastmasters
An ordinary public speaker may not care about grammatical errors littered across his speech. But Toastmasters are no ordinary public speaker and a Distinguished Toastmaster is actually the premium version of a public speaker. And no premium product ever comes with grammatical errors ...
An Ah Counter script with a great insight
Have you noticed that every time the Ah counter presents their report, the prepared speakers have significantly less filler words than table topic speakers? That’s not a co incidence. We utter filler words when our brain needs time to process our next few words, something a prepared speaker wouldn’t need to. But a good public ...
An Ah counter script with sound reasoning
There is a long way to do anything and a short way. For example – if you wanted to get rid of your filler words, you could do so after you become a seasoned public speaker and embarrass yourself on several occasions ...
TMOD theme titled “Productivity on steroids”
Today’s theme is about an app that hogs a large part of my day. I am addicted and cannot help myself get rid of it. Frankly, I don’t even want to get rid of it. That’s because the app I am talking about is not Facebook or Instagram, but an app that has really put my productivity on steroids – the ...
A grammarian script on walking the talk
If you were in a public speaking workshop, you would have been told to brush up your language skills. Perhaps a complementary grammar book may also be a part of the package. But in Toastmasters, we walk the talk. We help you improve your language ...
Table Topics on “Dreams & Nightmares”
We all see dreams, a lot of them. It’s just that we don’t remember them. Ever since the beginning of time, man has been trying to decode the meaning of dreams they see. Is there really any deep meanings attached to them? Who knows. But dreams are the perfect topic to host an intriguing ...
A timer’s script on keeping it short
Time is a fairly broad topic. I can talk about it from ten different angles and hog two hours while doing so. But none of you would like it, would you? The point is that while we can speak on any subject for hours on end, but the time our audience ...
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