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month-by-week-january-2023
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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”110px||110px|” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|off%22%22″ admin_label=”Discover Beatuty Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ text_font=”Roboto||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.9em” custom_padding=”30px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”top” animation_delay=”300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” global_colors_info=”{}”] Week 1 (05-01-2023): No meeting [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|off%22%22″ admin_label=”Discover Beatuty Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ text_font=”Roboto||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.9em” custom_padding=”30px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”top” animation_delay=”300ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” link_option_url=”https://youtu.be/9MYRl-fWu48″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Week 2 (12-01-2023): Its…
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How to keep the audience attention during online presentations.
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By Ian Hawkins If you are presenting to an audience on a virtual platform, you need to have a strategy to stop people dropping out. We have all been guilty of not giving a speaker our full attention, even when we are in the same room. This problem is magnified when the speaker is…
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How to be great at Zoom meetings: experienced speakers give their rundown of what makes an online meeting work and what should be avoided
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By Ian Hawkins Early Bird Speakers is regarded as one of the best public speaking clubs in the UK. With regular weekly meetings held in the heart of London, it draws members from all walks of life: a good number of barristers swing by from the nearby legal district, overseas students polish their English…
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Show Your Working
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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 Neil Coleman In this post we peek behind the scenes of the speeches over the last few weeks at Early Birds to uncover the creative processes that brought them to life on our stage. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.19.3″ /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.3″] “20 Years is Enough” [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.3″ src=”https://earlybirdspeakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20-years.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.3″]…
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Cliche Corner: I’m Looking Forward To Your Next Speech
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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…
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How To Stop Saying “Er”: Field Research
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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 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…
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The Blessing – And The Curse – Of The One Hit Wonder
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″] 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…
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What The World’s Toughest Fish Can Teach You About Public Speaking
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″] 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…
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Grand Expectations: Hitting High Standards At Your Toastmasters Club
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″] 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…
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WORDS FROM THE PREZ: Why We Make Them … And Why We Break Them
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″] 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…