Speech Openers

I recently spoke to a group of Insurance sales professionals in Dubai. All high performing achievers. And strangers except their Head, who had invited me. It was important to connect and build [...]

Last Friday I was the Emcee at my Toastmasters club and opened with these lines.“When our President Jindow Joseph asked me to be the MC, I asked him ‘why me?’and he said [...]

I recently spoke to an audience at 12.45pm. Lunch buffet was being laid out in the adjacent room and with with spicy aroma wafting into the room, I HAD to do something to hook them and opened [...]

Doc Blakely, a Toastmaster and celebrity humorist gave a rousing start to his speech with ” a professional speaker should have three looks Grey hair for that distinguished lookA paunch for [...]

Yesterday,I spoke on “winning humorous speech contests” at Dreams Toastmasters Dubai. I was speaking for the third time to the same audience (almost..)and on the same topic- Humor! I [...]

Last Sunday, I spoke on “How to make your message stick’ at the Division E Conference of Toastmasters in Bangalore. I was introduced by two young girls and they compared me to a Post [...]

A celebrity speaker,wading his way through entangled wires to the podium,slips and falls flat. Lying down,he speaks through his lapel microphone “for the first time in my 20 years of [...]

Here are two speech openers I have used over the years regularly with amazing success. Try it out and let me know if it worked for you. Immediately after my introduction: “Thank you so much [...]

I’d like to forget yesterday. Actually, everything went off well ! I shouldn’t be complaining. I was the chief guest at the Alumni Day at Bangalore Government Dental College. The hall [...]

Maybe when you die,You come before a big bearded manOn a big throne, and you say,“Is this heaven ?” And he says,“Heaven? You just came from there “– Kirk Douglas I [...]