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    My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator
    My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator
    My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator
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    My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator

    By Toby Welch

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    The journey to completing my first ten Toastmaster speeches and becoming a Competent Communicator was a thrilling one. The excitement and fear I experienced when getting up in front of the Airdrie Discovery Toastmasters group is something I will always clearly remember. I learned a great deal about the art of public speaking as well as a tremendous amount about myself. Come along with me as I detail my first ten speeches, a few table topic sessions, a joke of the day, and speech number one from the Speaking to Inform manual.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherToby Welch
    Release dateDec 10, 2012
    ISBN9781301646807
    My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator
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    Toby Welch

    After living in a dozen countries and earning an accounting degree, Toby Welch followed her dream of becoming a writer. Since penning an article in 2003 on travelling to Saudi Arabia, Toby has published over 290 articles in magazines and newspapers and another 400+ pieces online. She is addicted to the rush of creating e-books and has published 74 of them under her own name and a pseudonym. Toby finds inspiration in jazz music, impressionist artwork, and jars of Nutella.Check out the full range of her work on her website at tobywelch.ca

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      My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator - Toby Welch

      My Road to Becoming a Toastmasters Competent Communicator

      by Toby A. Welch

      Copyright 2012 Toby A. Welch

      Smashwords Edition

      http://www.tobywelch.ca/

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover art by Mauricio Duque

      The journey to completing my first ten Toastmaster speeches and becoming a Competent Communicator was a thrilling one. The excitement and fear I experienced when getting up in front of the Airdrie Discovery Toastmasters group is something I will always clearly remember. I learned a great deal about the art of public speaking as well as a tremendous amount about myself. Come along with me as I detail my first ten speeches, a few table topic sessions, a joke of the day, and speech number one from the Speaking to Inform manual.

      Speech 1: Toby the Toastmaster

      Speech 2: Are You the Next Stephen King?

      Speech 3: Dream Big

      Speech 4: Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Until Tomorrow?

      Speech 5: Pet Peeves

      Speech 6: Valentine’s Day, Schmalentines Day

      Speech 7: Extort Your Passion

      Speech 8: Picking Speech Topics

      Speech 9: Step out of Your Box

      Speech 10: Toby’s Mount Everest

      Bonuses:

      Speed Dating Table Topics

      On the Road Table Topics

      Job Interview Table Topics

      Joke of the Day

      Speech #1 - Speaking to Inform manual

      Speech 1: Toby the Toastmaster

      I have led what I consider a life filled with blessings. While my parents are both from small towns in Saskatchewan, Canada, my father was in the oil patch so I was born in a small town in the middle of Africa. I spent the next 17 years overseas, mainly in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

      We moved to the U.S. state of Alabama when I was 17 and I stayed there even after the rest of my family left. I was there for half of my university life and finished my degree at the University of Calgary. I have now lived in Alberta for almost 20 years.

      One part of my identity is that I have always been a stutterer. By the time I started grade one, I could barely say two words without stuttering. As a result, I rarely talked and was labelled early on as a shy child. Speech therapy wasn’t common 30 years ago in overseas schools so I didn’t receive any help for my impediment until I reached grade six. At that point, a kind teacher named Jim Smith saw that my problem wasn’t shyness but an inability to speak at times. That started a six year stint with countless

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