Performing Your Best at a Speech Contest
Every year in March and September, many toastmasters dust off their speech writing pens and put on their A-game to compete in the toastmasters speech contests. Speech contests are held twice yearly. The International Speech Contest and Evaluation Speech Contests are held in March; the Humorous or Tall Tales Speech Contest and the Table Topics Speech […]
How to Edit Your Meeting Roles Online
In this video, our webmaster, Steve, shares how to login to our club website and edit your meeting roles. https://youtu.be/Jzy_FFbIQCE
How To Prepare For Toastmaster of the Week
In this video, Jason and Steve share the preparation work needed to run a successful meeting as the Toastmaster of the Week at NightVision Toastmasters. In a nutshell, the preparation work includes: Choosing a meeting theme Informing members of the meeting theme and soliciting introductions Preparing your speeches on the meeting theme Creating the printed agenda, […]
Murder Mystery Night Meeting—How We Did It
Following our successful themed Murder Mystery Night meeting back in August, I have received several inquiries both within and outside our club about how we organized this meeting. In this article I will detail the process of how I planned this meeting, and a review of what went well, what didn’t go well. Hopefully these will be useful tips […]
We are a President’s Distinguished Club!
NightVision Toastmasters is a 2017 President’s Distinguished Club! July 1st is the beginning of a new Toastmasters (fiscal) year, and time to tally up our Distinguished Club Program (DCP) points for the past year. Having achieved 9/10 points, for the year 2016-2017, we are officially a President’s Distinguished club! This is the highest award that […]
Deliberate Practice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New research from Peak: Secrets From The New Science Of Expertise suggests you can achieve your best in anything with deliberate practice—and that’s what we do every Thursday evening—practicing public speaking, evaluating, and creative thinking! There’s also a Freakonomics podcast episode about the same book and topic.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”5962″ img_size=”500×500″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/06/01/479335421/practice-makes-possible-what-we-learn-by-studying-amazing-kids”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Recap of Pride Week Open House: A Proud Wedding!
NightVision toastmasters celebrated pride week on July 28th by hosting our very own “Proud Wedding” between two of our club members—Simon and Kevin (a theme meeting producion, all roles and scripts are fictional). Simon and Kevin were joined in union on pride week (only for the duration of the 2 hour meeting) by a very drunk […]
Selecting Your Speech Topic
As a toastmaster, we constantly have to come up with new speech topics to write our speeches. One of the most frequent obstacles to delivering a speech is simply getting started, where we often hit a mental roadblock selecting a speech topic. A well-known idiom says “well begun is half done.” Selecting a suitable speech topic […]
Oscar Night 2016 Awards
Last Thursday NightVision Toastmasters held its 2016 Oscar Night. It was a night of party and food. We celebrated the club’s achievements over the year, as well as the many achievements of our wonderful members. If you missed the meeting, here are the awards that were handed out and the award recipients. Albus Dumbledore Teaching […]