Tag Archives: speaking confidence

Community Connection with Public Speaking

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Vancore Toastmasters

Public speaking is all about connection, and that’s hard enough when your audience is right there in front of you. It’s crazily more difficult when they’re also online, as the pandemic taught us all. Vancore Toastmasters — and many other … Continue reading →

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How We Grow and Expand With The Seasons

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Vancore Toastmasters

Spring is a time for renewal, growth, and expansion. We have that extra energy and focus to get active, take action, and create change. We are fortunate to lean on the Toastmasters platform of support and education system to … Continue reading →

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Impromptu Speaking Helps You Grow

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Vancore Toastmasters

“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” — Michael Scott, The Office. Now you know why the head of Dunder Mifflin paper company is … Continue reading →

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Icebreaker: What Great Stories are About

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Vancore Toastmasters

Great stories are all about the “telling detail,” a specific little observation or description or scrap of dialogue that SELLS it. Lori gave her icebreaker speech at the last meeting. Around 20 years ago, Lori told us, she found herself … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk Food Stories

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Vancore Toastmasters

“Make your favourite meal for us!” If you’ve ever been asked to do that — in words, not beans and butter — you know how hard it is. But the folks who took on this week’s Table Topics question rose … Continue reading →

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How to Build Your Expertise with Public Speaking

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Vancore Toastmasters

When you have a professional meterologist on the roster, things heat up quickly. Heeeeerrrrree came….Giselle, capping a summer of weather like no other. A summer when Lytton, BC smashed the record for highest temperature in Canada ever — for three … Continue reading →

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How to Cultivate Good Conversation Skills

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Vancore Toastmasters

Why is it important to cultivate conversations skills if you want to succeed in life? We need productive relationships to succeed professionally and have meaningful relationships for a happy, fulfilling life, and conversations are the foundation of all relationships. Conversations … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Recap: Public Speaking is Infectious!

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Vancore Toastmasters

Funny thing about public speaking: it’s infectious! In Toastmasters, sometimes a theme comes up and everyone seems to “catch it,” like a cold. And next thing you know everyone’s talking about it one way or another. Case in point: this … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Recap – First Ever Hybrid Meeting with OWL!

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Vancore Toastmasters

Live from the VanCore bat cave! Today we saw the future! Jonathan arranged our first HYBRID meeting, featuring space-age Owl technology. The camera detects individual speakers and hones in on them so tightly you can see their lips move. Or … Continue reading →

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