Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters Club

Presentation skill is something that all great speakers have to master.   Done right, it shows the audience your ability to organize and convey your thoughts and ideas in a way that words alone can never do. However, if you don’t do it right, then it will show the world in glorious visual Technicolor your lack of preparation. Bear in mind the following and you will be able to sail through. 1) Don’t Put Your Entire Speech In The Presentation A presentation consisting of words alone is boring, although it is unavoidable at times.   However, don’t put your entire speech in your slides and read from them.   By doing that, you’re making yourself redundant.   You might as well give your audience a copy of your slides and they can read from there. 2) Use Keywords Continuing from Point #1 above, instead of putting your entire speech in your presentation, use keywords.   Important keywords pertaining to your topic will be helpful for your au...

"Nothing is certain in life except death and taxes," so says the quote. So what can you do to make sure you live your life in a way you would be proud of so that in the end, you can say you've really lived and not existed? One of the ways is a bucket list, a list of things that you want to do like travel to far off and exotic places, a skill that you've always wanted to learn or doing something so big that it seemed like an impossible feat to accomplish. Here are some of the things that are in our attendees' bucket list: Go to Disneyland Travel around the world Move to New York Go on an adventure once a year Go to a third world country to do charity work Own their first home These are all worthwhile dreams to aspire to and we really hope you guys achieve them. We had two speakers for the night. Speaker #1: Preezzilla Tan Finally, this very successful real estate agent did her speech on something that she is very passionate about - investin...

Is that person going up on stage to give a speech the same person as the one hanging out with your friends? Often times we create different personas or masks that we put on to suit each occasion as we see fit.   But how well do we carry each of that persona? Many people feel that if they are going to put themselves out there, be seen in public, getting all that attention focused on them for 7 minutes, then they need to become someone very different from the person who is just hanging out with friends eating roti canai at the local makak. There are people who feel they have to ramp up the drama to get attention.   Some feel they need to scale back a little of their personality so that people can take them seriously.   Others try to be a little silly or cute because they think it will make them more likeable. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, go for it!   Good speakers will bring out different sides of their personality ...

We held our club level of the Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests on 29 August. Here are the winners. Winners of the Evaluation Contest Champion: Joanne Tan 1st Runner Up: Dennis De Vosse 2nd Runner Up: Hayley James Winners of the Humorous Speech Contest Champion: Dennis De Vosse 1st Runner Up: Joanne Tan 2nd Runner Up: Darren Saw Finally, we crowned a new champion in our club contest! A big thank you to our organizing team who worked really hard to put the contest together and our friends from Farlim Toastmasters Club for being our role players, not to mention our guests who came to support the contestants. Shout out to the very talented Miss Fish for the beautiful pictures!  Click here to see the rest. Group photo for the album that truly represents the fun we had that night