CRAVEN SPEAKERS CLUB - Skipton

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Communications skills for all  ...Come and Try us out!!! ....     Last updated 8 April 2008

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Soroptimists Rooms, 28 Little Otley Street, Skipton BD23 1EW Map
and Skipton Little Theatre, Clifford Street, Skipton BD23 2AD. Map
Alternate Mondays starting at 7.45pm. Next Meetings:
10 April AWAY to Wetherby  
16 April AWAY to Wharfedale  
21 April Traditional Meeting Soroptimists
19 May Traditional Meeting Soroptimists
2 June Mini- Arts Festival Skipton Little Theatre
26 July What a performance - Summer afternoon event Skipton Little Theatre
The rest of the programme for 2007-2008
01535 633730, 01535 662441 or 07941 785340
info@craven-speakers.org.uk

Top tips for giving impromptu short speeches:

  1. Think of you final end "punchline" first. Then your talk can work towards that. (Chris Birch's Tip)
  2. Tell people "What's in it for them"
  3. If you want people to do something, give them a "because" before you give the request
  4. e.g. "Because what I'm going to say is very important for your exams, I want you to listen carefully".

  5. Look at people/the audience in the eye. Look at someone near the back (because then more people will think you are looking at them - it is to do with angles). Find someone who is looking at you with interest and sympathy - because that will give you more confidence, so you will speak beter.
  6. Smile
  7. Don't "Errr" and Don't rush things - better to shut your mouth and give a pause.
  8. Finish your talk with a "punch" (- A strong comment - And stand there, wait for the applause. Don't tail off and sidle away from the table in the middle of your last sentence.)

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Because it will improve your ability at giving talks, go and plan a two minute talk on a subject of your choice- e.g. "Trees" .. RIGHT NOW!

Have fun! ... and perhaps we'll see you at Skipton.

Useful Links: LJL Seminars- Impromptu Speaking

No matter how large your audience may be, each listener wants to feel that you are talking to him or her.-body language -

Leisure, training, "what to do", practice, confidence, evening class, committee meeting, speak well, speech, voice self-improvement

Speakers clubs are for ordinary people - like you.

  1. Wedding Speeches
  2. Reading the Psalms at church
  3. Chairing a committee meeting
  4. Raising a point at a meeting
  5. Becoming less shy in ordinary conversations
  6. Patter for introducing a song that you are going to sing/play.
  7. Explaining to people why climate change or species extinctions are important.
  8. Gain confidence generally

You may be shy and think "I am too shy to speak so I don't need to go to a speaker's club" - WRONG - Speakers Club is for you - the other people there are very encouraging

You may think "I have done lots of public speaking, I am already very good" - WRONG - other members will be able to point out (politely) quirks that you had not noticed, as well as highlighting the good points.

If you are a young person -JOIN now - the skills you learn will last a lifetime

If you are old - you still have some life left - and you'll have lots of fun at the meetings

You might consider coming in from: Skipton, Gargrave, Settle, Cononly, Keighley, Addingham, Hellifield, Barnoldswick, Harrogate, Denholme, Silsden, Malham, Embsay, Steeton, Kildwick, Bradley, Bradford, North and West Yorkshire,

The Assciation of Speakers Clubs is similar to the Toastmasters International organisation. Toastmasters formed in America in 1904. In 1972 Most of the British Toastmasters Clubs left Toastmasters and formed the Association of Speakers Clubs.

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