Toastmasters

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 [...]

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 [...]

I think repartee is the toughest form of humor. The ability to come up with a witty retort is a prized skill and I am still grappling with this and I celebrate every small victory in this area [...]

Image via Wikipedia A well crafted speech opener gives you tremendous momentum. As a wag put it, a good speech opener helps you excite, link and involve the audience. One way is to prepare an apt [...]

Why use humor ?You make people happy !Many years ago, I was reluctantly watching a videotape of Toastmaster Willie Jones in the World championship public speaking series. I was in a miserable [...]

Please visit http://www.youtube.com/tchendilk to watch this video Infosys Toastmasters Bangalore conducted an inter club speech contest titled “Cook up a speech” in which speakers had [...]

Speakers overwork some cliches – used, reused, overused and abused phrases like ” without much ado, least but not the least…” and the like.. Here’s a delightful [...]

I hope I am not getting a wee bit narcissistic but I was interviewed (thru email) by Francisco Saraiva from Portugal, in a series of interviews with public speaking bloggers. Apparently, [...]

Image via Wikipedia I was pleasantly surprised to get a mail from Guy Kawasaki, whose Rules for Revolutionaries and Art of the Start I refer frequently. He has included my blog in his online [...]