Hello and welcome to the very first newsletter of 2012!
Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and are raring to get started again with ramping up your public speaking skills.
I’m going to keep this newsletter short and sweet as it’s only been a couple of weeks since the last one, which appeared a little later in the month than normal.
So, in true Toastmasters style I’m going to give you just three pieces of information.
Here we go…
1) Venue Reminder
You should know this already, but we have a new venue! It’s downstairs at The Real Man Pizza Company. Check out the details here:
https://www.bloomsburyspeakers.org.uk/meetings/
2) Meetings This Month
Our regular meetings this month are on Monday 9th January and Monday 23rd January.
We already have five speakers (including two Icebreakers) booked for each of these meetings – wow! – but there are still a few supporting roles to be filled:
9th January: Topics Evaluator and Speech Evaluator
23rd January: Timekeeper, Topics Evaluator and Speech Evaluators
Please book yourself into ClubPlan or email our VPE Femi at education@bloomsburyspeakers.org.uk to nab your slot.
3) Club Social – Bowling!
There’s still time to book a place on the club social – ten pin bowling at All Star Lanes on Monday 16th January.
Please email Femi at education@bloomsburyspeakers.org.uk by Monday 9th January if you’d like to attend.
Tip of the Month – Evaluate!
Want to be a better speaker? Evaluate someone else’s speech! This will help you to develop analytical skills that you can apply to your own speeches.
However, we know that some people find the idea of evaluating someone else a bit daunting, so we’ve put together a brand new role guide to help you:
P.S. If you really want to improve quickly – record your speech and try to evaluate it as if you were evaluating someone else. Painful but very useful!
That’s all for now. Told you it would be short and sweet. 🙂 Hope to see you at a meeting soon!
Best wishes,
Glen Long
President
president@bloomsburyspeakers.org.uk
