Category Archives: Toastmasters
Have the audience rolling in the aisles: How to add humour to your speech
Where will you be on the 6th-8thth May? In our last Enjoy Presenting blog, we mentioned that our lead trainer Alan Donegan will be speaking at the 2011 Toastmasters’ International Spring Conference, also known as A Spring Odyssey. Here is a little more information for you: Enjoy Presenting’s lead trainer Alan Donegan made it to [...]
Workshop on how to add laughter to your speech
Have you been asked to do a workshop for your peers before? It is an honour to be asked to share some of what you have learnt, but when you get the opportunity you become a little bit nervous. You think, “what if these people know everything I am going to tell them?” Well I am [...]
Where do you go to practice new skills?
Who do you hang around with if you want to learn new skills? What do you need to do to further develop your skills? How do you get really good at something? Take public speaking as an example, most people come to a point in their life where they have to speak in [...]
Nervous? Feeling the anxiety?
Have you ever had a moment where it just all felt so clear to you? Where you have just done something, been somewhere, seen someone and it suddenly all made sense? That happened to me last night and I want to tell you about it because I think it make sense of speaking nerves. [...]
Enjoy Presenting the book
What are you going to achieve in 2011? Have you set your goals down on paper? At the beginning of the year we have created all our goals for 2011 and we have some big ones. One of them is to write Enjoy Presenting the book! So we have started to think about what you [...]
Toastmasters Humorous Speaking contest 2010
Enjoy Presenting’s lead trainer gives out the awards at the Surrey final of the Toastmaster’s Humorous Speaking contest after a fabulous night of entertainment. After his year as President of Guildford Speaker’s Club; Enjoy Presenting’s lead trainer Alan Donegan has moved up the tree in Toastmasters to become Area Govenor for Area 14 (Surrey). In [...]
The worst sales pitch you have ever seen………(Part4)
Have you seen a dull PowerPoint recently? Have you sat in a room and been sent cross eyed by a poor presentation? Well things were going from bad to worse for Jeff. After Jeff had got his presentation sorted he flicked onto page two of the PDF and my eyes crossed as I tried to [...]
The worst sales pitch you have ever seen………(part 3)
Can PowerPoint and computer problems kill your pitch or presentation? You bet they can, see how poorly Jeff handled them!
The worst sales pitch you have ever seen……… (Part 2)
Could this sales pitch get any worse? Back in the dark dingy meeting room in Farnborough, Hampshire, Jeff hadn’t even started yet! Jeff continued to fumble with the IT until something came up on screen; he then turned to face us and started. The first thing Jeff told us about was his hobbies and what [...]
The courage to stand up
The courage to stand up……… Have you sat in a meeting thinking “why am I here?” wondering what else you could be doing? Have you sat there as you start to fidget and think this is a waste of time, I need to be somewhere else. I find that if I am in a meeting [...]
