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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.3″] By Niels Footman This sentence doesn’t mean what you think it means. On the face of it, that seems an absurd claim. Anyone hearing that line could be in little doubt that its speaker has just heard a speech from someone within the club, has evaluated it, and has expressed…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.3″] By Ian Hawkins If your New Year’s Resolution is to improve your public speaking, you are probably one of the many people who struggles with filler words – the ‘um’s, ‘er’s and ‘you know’s that sap your credibility and confidence.  Do you struggle with filler words? Toastmasters International is a…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″] By Niels Footman In the summer of 1979, Norman Greenbaum walked onstage to a sense of expectation so great, you could almost touch it. Whoops arose from some faces in the crowd. Guitar strings were tuned. A bass drum pounded two or three times in quick succession. And then, the…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″] By Niels Footman In September of this year, scientists from Newcastle University made an astonishing discovery. Using an ultra-resilient rig they’d built themselves, the team sent bait, traps and HD cameras to the unimaginably cold and forbidding depths of the Atacama Trench off the western coast of South America. Plunging…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″] By Shaheen Mufti When you first came to Toastmasters, you had a set of expectations. That time when you visited your first Toastmasters club, you would have probably thought, “This is where I am going to improve my public speaking” or “This is the place where I am going to…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″] By Niels Footman “The road to hell,” Stephen King once said, “is paved with adverbs.” If anyone should know what makes up the approach to eternal damnation, the most successful horror writer of all time is probably your guy. But this quote echoes a wider assertion in communications: there are…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.1″] By Luke Pearce I’ve never considered myself to be much of a creative person. In school, my dreary art teacher wrote off my early drawing attempts as no more than “acceptable”; meanwhile I could never hope to improvise as well as that…

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”0|0px|20.2083px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.10.1″] Earlier this year, on British TV sensation and cultural totem Love Island, Dr Alex reclined on a sunbed next to his on-again, off-again spoon-buddy Alexandra, and burbled: “I definitely have feelings for you but I want us to keep our options open. After all, your Love Island journey only began recently.…