Speakers Resources

District Seminar and Conference Educational Session handouts:

District Seminars and Conference Educational Session Handouts

• Speech Contest Judging
• How to Win a Speech Contest
• Table Topics
• Ten types of Table Topic sessions
• How to Evaluate Effectively
• Evaluation Plus and Minus Work Sheet
• Using Overhead Projectors
• All About Microphones
• Using Stories in Speeches
• Chairman's Typical Business Session Agenda (cheat sheet)
• PowerPoint Sins
• How to have a Parliamentary Style Debate

The Toastmasters Recognition System

• The new Toastmasters Recognition System (Description of awards and requirements of new system commencing 1st July, 2006).
• The Project matrix.
• Guide to understanding the new CL manual.
• The old Toastmasters Recognition System (Description of awards and requirements)
• The Advanced Communication and Leadership manuals
• The Better Speaker, Successful Club and Leadership Excellence series modules
• The Success/Communication and Success/Leadership Programs
• The High Performance Leadership Program

Web Links to Resources on the Internet

Ask Oxford: http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk
Oxford Dictionary - Passionate about words.
Includes these articles: Ask the Expert; Better Writing; World of Words; Games; Global English; Foreign Languages. Frequently Asked Questions on the English Language; The History of Words; Classical Quotes and much more.

Museum of Humor: http://www.museumofhumor.com/resources.htm
Includes links to thousands of databases of humour, as well as tools to help you create your own material.

John Kinde's Humour Power:
Listen to two audio clips which demonstrate John's humour and success philosophy. Hear how humour sparks this energising program on personal empowerment. http://www.humorpower.com/audio_clips.html
This site also has 50 Free articles on humour. Take a look: http://www.humorpower.com/articles_free.html

Totally Unique Thoughts: The infinite possibilities: The art of living your dreams
If you have broadband, take a look at this free video of a great speaker at US State level Toastmasters Conference. http://www.tut.com/speakingdemos.htm

Expressions Of Excellence: http://www.expressionsofexcellence.com/articles.html
Professional speaker, Craig Harrison, offers lots of articles to help Toastmasters, including Table Topics ideas, ways to promote your club, humour, communication, sales and much more.

Professional Speaker: http://www.professionalspeaker.com
This site tells you everything you ever wanted to know about getting paid to speak. This site is owned by three of the industry's top pro speakers.

Inspiration Peak: http://www.inspirationpeak.com/quotes.html
Includes quotes by famous people as well as the option to search by subject or author.

Quote Land: http://www.quoteland.com/
Includes quotes by topics, extra resources and a discussion groups.

ThinkExist: http://en.thinkexist.com/
More than 140,000 quotes and over 11,000 authors

ABC Online: http://www.abc.net.au/
Australia's leading source of information, entertainment and news to keep you informed and up-to-date.

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