This ToastTED Style Workshop conducted on February 4, 2025. Amanda Mae Gray demonstrates a TED style speech. This workshop, conducted by Chris Butsch, educated attendees and members about how to prepare for a 8-10 minute professional speech on a pre-recorded video for TED and TEDx style speeches. Toastmasters International is not affiliated with TED or TEDx. This video is for educational purposes only.
Read MoreIn this video, noted Leadership Coach and Internationally Accredited Speaker, Ron Chapman teaches leaders how to become transformational leaders. Transformational leaders are essential in today's business world; you can learn how to become one in this video. Transformational leaders can see the big picture and the potential in their teams. They identify and address the needs of their team members, and Lead by Example. By learning to identify the levels of leadership and the required attributes of that leader, you can become a successful transformational leader!
Read MoreAre you ready to take your public speaking skills to the next level? Do you have a strategy for success in Toastmasters or other public speaking competitions?
Read MoreWith Zoom fatigue becoming increasingly common, it’s time to start exploring new ways to make video calls more fun, appealing, and worth attending. When you are the host of a video meeting (or webinar), the responsibility lands on you to keep things moving, just as if you were the in-person emcee.
Read MoreIn every venue, creating and sustaining accountability is a cardinal leadership practice. Failure to gain clarity on our commitments or achievements, and lack of effective follow-up invariably undermine performance.
Read MoreThe Speakers Roundtable (SRT) members are speakers and leaders who want to grow and become better and better as speakers and leaders. The values and principles that brought us together have kept SRT thriving for nearly thirty years.
Read MoreMost people think Toastmasters is just about learning how to give a better presentation - but it's really so much more than that!
Read MoreIntroducing a speaker can be tough. But it doesn't have to be! I've got some tricks up my sleeve that'll help you introduce your speaker like a pro.
Read MoreOriginally, the idea of leadership was drawn from ancient language to mean “to shoulder the load to show the way.” That stands in notable contrast to the ways we often think of leadership, i.e. as position, or rank, or hierarchy. Instead, it means that whoever is taking responsibility to guide others is leading, and therefore is the leader. That’s a much more grounded way to view the role of the leader.
Read MoreOne of the most common questions we get from guests who decide to introduce themselves for membership is “What do I talk about in my Introductory Speech?”. We have created this guide to help SRT guests and potential new members generate interesting ways to introduce themselves to the club and show up in the best way for your speech. Every member of SRT has been through this process and it is very effective in setting speakers up for success.
Read MoreToastmasters provides an excellent forum for developing material, while many of SRT’s members regularly accept offers to do so. Accredited Speaker Ron Chapman has been using this approach for a number of years. So when the Metro North group of Marietta, Georgia asked Ron if he could deliver a mini-workshop for their open house event, he seized the opportunity.
Read MoreProfessional speaker and Trainer Chris Butsch makes the case for engaging with Pathways at the 2019 District 44 Toastmasters Summer TLI. Chris is also a member of Speakers Roundtable and is a published author.
Read MoreChris Busch sits down to discuss how he was able to take a very difficult topic about Pathways and make it an engaging speech at the District 44 Summer TLI.
Read MoreAt the summer 2019 Toastmasters Leadership Institute, Speakers Roundtable members Ron Chapman and Natalie Gallagher, lead a Crucial Conversations training for Toastmasters officers so they could learn another powerful method for being effective leaders.
Read MoreYou may have watched a speaker on the stage and wonder how they prepared for their speech. Where did this idea come from? How did they write it and then practice the speech? What sort of help did they get before they walked on to the stage? How long did they practice before they delivered the speech?
Read MoreOne of the great opportunities that SRT offers is experimental space, i.e. a stage to try out things that might not work out well. After all, every effective approach is the byproduct of all the failures that preceded it. That’s the definition of success.
Read MoreNatalie Gallagher leads a training on how to organize a speech from the Toastmasters D44 conference.
Read MoreShannon Kraiger makes an appearance on D44 Talk Radio to discuss how SRT’s Coaching model can be of great benefit to speakers as they hone their speeches.
Read MoreOur resident Powerpoint and digital presentation expert Tom Nixon has a new project creating 2-Minute Speaker Coaching on his website Ready2Speak.com. This is from his video series, 2 Minute Speaker Coaching.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what the difference between coaching and evaluation is, in terms of public speaking?
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