Club 06621765

District U | Area O1

COMPETITIVE

COMMUNICATORS

November 2017

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Competitive

Communicators

Testimonial

by Dominic Auguste

The Traveling

Toastmasters

Meet some of your fellow Toastmasters on their home turf or on vacation!

Meet, Learn, Speak,

Lead!

Reflections from District 48 Fall Conference

Your Club Officers

Who are these magical beings?

D-I-Y Toastmasters

Cards

A Toastmaster’s personal experience making cards using the Toastmasters free template

TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL

NEWSLETTER Club News and Events

Toastmasters is a program in which you learn

public speaking by watching others and doing it

yourself. I like Toastmasters because it tests me in

a way that’s not “what’s the answer to 5x + 6”!

It’s interactive with real people asking you

questions and guiding you through the world of

public speaking.

Competitive Communicators differs in many ways

from face-to-face Toastmasters:

1. First, you usually don’t have to worry

about unmuting yourself before you

speak!

2. Second, you don’t have to worry about

people looking at you weird because if

you look at the screen you see yourself.

3. Third, you can be anywhere for

Competitive Communicators. You are only

limited by no data zones.

Although I’m not an actual Toastmaster, per se, I can still experience it through

Competitive Communicators, and that’s what I like about Toastmasters. No limits!

Dominic Auguste

TOASTMASTERS FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW

THE TRAVELING TOASTMASTERS Meet your fellow Competitive Communicators club members

Robert Owens at the Tree of Life

Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida USA

Tricia Grow at a historic cemetery in York

Springs, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA

Misako Yoke in front of a glacier-fed fjord near Olympic National Park in the Pacific Northwest, USA

Adrienne Williams at the District 47

Speech Contest, South Florida, USA

Dawn Nocera at Olentangy Indian Caverns

near Delaware, Ohio, USA

THE TRAVELING TOASTMASTERS: Meet your fellow Competitive Communicators club members

MEET, LEARN, SPEAK, READ!

This weekend was the final District 48 Fall Conference. Here are some reflections from this year’s conference.

Kevin Stamper, local pastor and 3rd place winner of the 2017 World Championship of Public Speaking on Speech Craft:

• Don’t speak because you feel like you have to say something. Speak because you have something to say!

• Overcome fear of public speaking by remembering it’s not about you, it’s about sharing your message.

• Many people start their speeches with a small idea, and they add on to it. Instead, start big with lots of ideas and whittle them down until there is nothing else left to take out.

• Every sentence in your speech should point to your overall message.

• Be the “save the cat” character by endearing yourself to your audience.

• Delivery won’t make your speech, but it can break it.

Andrew Bustamante, former CIA agent, founder of the Me Now Movement, and 2017 winner of District 48 Evaluation Contest on Practical Persuasion:

• Persuasion is a practical skill anyone can learn.

• Persuasion is the act of getting someone to do or believe what you want them to do or believe.

• Do is a “hip urge” and believe is a “heart urge”.

• Fundamental appeals for hip urges are: reward, ideology, coercion and ego.

• Fundamental appeals for heart urges are: listening, relating, observing and controlling the perception.

Competitive

Communicators

Club 06621765

District U | Area O1

Visit us at https://competitivecommunicators.toastmost.org/

President

Paul Finkelstein, ACG ALB

Vice President Education

Marty Greene, CC CL

Vice President Membership

William Thomas, ACS CL

Vice President Public Relations

Michelle Alba-Lim

Treasurer

John Gentithes

Secretary

Marla Hochman

Sergeant-At-Arms

Aaron Leung, ACB ALB

Club Mentors

Seth Hochman & Michelle Orsi

Do It Yourself Toastmasters Cards

Use the Toastmasters business card template to make your own Toastmasters branded cards! Get the template.

“I used Avery 8-cards per sheet Clean Edge Matte White Business Card stock (8869) for Inkjet and adapted the Toastmasters template which is designed for 10-cards per sheet. The result is very professional in appearance, and an easy way to promote my love of Toastmasters. I handed out plenty of them at the District 48 Fall Conference.” - Evie Alexander