Author Archives: Andrew

Three steps to writing a better speech title

By Andrew | Published: May 5, 2010
Last month I was the Contest Chairman for my Toastmasters club’s speech contest. This was the first round of an international competition run by Toastmasters. Toastmasters competitions are worth watching as participants bring their best material and their delivery is deeply considered and rehearsed. Our competition was no exception. Congratulations to Michael Grew who went [...]
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Link Roundup: April

By Andrew | Published: April 30, 2010
I’ve had a busy month. I performed my thirteenth stand up comedy gig. I completed my eighth toastmasters speech. I packed up all my stuff and moved back the the UK. Now I’m in the Netherlands visiting a friend. Best of this month on The Naked Speaker This month I completed the seventh project in the Toastmasters Competent Communicator [...]
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Toastmasters speech no.7: A boring lecture about statistics

By Andrew | Published: April 23, 2010
Yesterday I completed speech project number seven in the Toastmasters Competent Communicator manual. The objectives of this project were to “Research Your Topic”. This is what happened… (Watch this 6:45 video on Vimeo or Youtube) Research The research speech is notorious for being one of the most difficult speeches. When you’re talking about something unfamiliar it’s hard to [...]
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