Public Speaking for All Levels | Port Melbourne Toastmasters

Value is number one. Tony Robbins says that the more value you deliver, the richer you can become! Everyone is information hungry. In fact it might be said that we spend our whole lives collecting information. We will therefore listen eagerly to someone who is actively delivering value, telling us things that we have never heard before, because they have done the hard work for us.

Such a speaker commands attention.

Do you want to be known as the speaker who delivers value, or the speaker who delivers filler? But what really is value and what's it all about? What's the back story to this?

Any audience will love someone who possesses knowledge of a particular topic. Value is what the audience receives for their time. The more value the audience feels they have received, the more in-demand the speaker will be.

Tonight at Port Melbourne Toastmasters we take time to explore how to deliver true value to your audience. We hope you can join us in this fun evening!

Join us at Port Melbourne Toastmasters (http://www.portmelbournetoastmasters.org/) for this Toastmasters meeting. This is the perfect place to overcome your public speaking nerves and improve your public speaking abilities.

Book in now. Free for guests, members of our Meetup Group, and visiting Toastmasters.

Directions-How to find the meeting room (http://5181586.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html)

Port Melbourne Toastmasters meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. 6:45pm-9:00pm. You are welcome to come along as a guest.

No-one is like anyone else! What we sometimes (perhaps wrongly) think of as imperfections, other people can refer to as 'character', and can help us immeasurably in delivering with an authentic voice.

Abraham Lincoln is recalled as a shy, unsure speaker, yet his speeches captivated tens of thousands wherever we went. He never failed to draw a large crowd.

In fact, our imperfections make us seem more human and vulnerable, traits which endear us to the audience.

Imperfections are rarely to be hidden away, simply because they can be your greatest asset when it comes to public speaking. Stuttering or stammering can sometimes be a great thing!

Tonight at Port Melbourne Toastmasters we take time to explore this topic. We will learn what works and what does not, and why! All invited, members and also non-members who wish to come along and see what we are all about! On behalf of the club we can't wait to meet you!

Join us at Port Melbourne Toastmasters (http://www.portmelbournetoastmasters.org/) for this Toastmasters meeting. This is the perfect place to overcome your public speaking nerves and improve your public speaking abilities.

Book in now. Free for guests, members of our Meetup Group, and visiting Toastmasters.

Directions-How to find the meeting room (http://5181586.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html)

Port Melbourne Toastmasters meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. 6:45pm-9:00pm. You are welcome to come along as a guest.

1. Relax! There is not a speaker alive who is not nervous, or who never suffers stage fright at times. For some people, public speaking is their greatest fear. However, with a little practice it becomes remarkably easy and second nature!
2. There are some highly effective techniques you can employ in your speaking to 'hide' the fact you might be nervous. Speak slowly, with a reasoned voice. Shift the focus from yourself to your audience, or to your message. Don't joke about or mention being nervous. It may become self fulfilling.

There are so many techniques which can be employed for controlling nerves! Show up early, talk to the audience before hand, look at people who are enjoying the speech and ignore serious faces! Your mood will improve dramatically! Nerves are natural, but they can be controlled and with sufficient practice, mainly eliminated.

Tonight at Port Melbourne Toastmasters we are going to really explore this topic in our headliner and other talks! Feel free to swing by for an informative and entertaining evening!

Join us at Port Melbourne Toastmasters (http://www.portmelbournetoastmasters.org/) for this Toastmasters meeting. This is the perfect place to overcome your public speaking nerves and improve your public speaking abilities.

Book in now. Free for guests, members of our Meetup Group, and visiting Toastmasters.

Directions-How to find the meeting room (http://5181586.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html)

Port Melbourne Toastmasters meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. 6:45pm-9:00pm. You are welcome to come along as a guest.

The brain is most active, and receptive, when at play. But getting that first laugh out of an audience can seem like a daunting challenge!

Bringing an element of `funny' into your speech fosters a special connection with your audience which a more serious speech can never achieve!

Here are some elements towards giving a funny speech, which you might even like to try tonight!

1. Relax to give the appearance of confidence. The audience WANTS to laugh and engage with you.
2. People do funny things all the time. Telling stories about strange things which have happened to you is the basic essence of `bring funny'. It's really as simple as that. You don't need to know any jokes or anything like that, because that isn't what it's about, but that might help as a prop!

That's all you need to do to be funny, but of course, you need practice.

That is where Port Melbourne Toastmasters comes in! Some toastmasters are actually far more funny than professional comedians at comedy shows, so do come along and bring friends! This is going to be an incredible night!

Join us at Port Melbourne Toastmasters (http://www.portmelbournetoastmasters.org/) for this Toastmasters meeting. This is the perfect place to overcome your public speaking nerves and improve your public speaking abilities.

Book in now. Free for guests, members of our Meetup Group, and visiting Toastmasters.

Directions-How to find the meeting room (http://5181586.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html)

Port Melbourne Toastmasters meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. 6:45pm-9:00pm. You are welcome to come along as a guest.

Join us at Port Melbourne Toastmasters (http://www.portmelbournetoastmasters.org/) for this Toastmasters meeting. This is the perfect place to overcome your public speaking nerves and improve your public speaking abilities.

Book in now. Free for guests, members of our Meetup Group, and visiting Toastmasters.

Directions-How to find the meeting room (http://5181586.toastmastersclubs.org/directions.html)

Port Melbourne Toastmasters meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays. 6:45pm-9:00pm. You are welcome to come along as a guest.