Kevin Thompson MPA is the first member of UMDNJ Toastmasters Club to achieve the title of Distinguished Toastmaster. Kevin has a consulting, coaching and speaking business, Inspired Communications LLC, helping organizations, agencies and small businesses to energize, empower their staff and foster effective culture change taking customer service to the next level. Kevin credits Toastmasters [...]
Some of you are ready to post content to your Umdnj Toastmasters blog site. So, here is the first part of a series of PowerPoint Slides which can get you started. The slides attempt to explain not only the process but each basic posting feature on this powerful site. This is your site. Please key [...]
1968, a year of great change in this country. It was also a time of great change in the life of John Harvey Jr. Listen to John’s speech and Share your comments [...]
Fear is something that we all face and makes a good theme for table topics. Below you will see videos explaining what Table Topics is and experience what it is like to give a Table Topics speech. [Content protected for Club Member members only] Shanell’s Table Topics Clint does Table Topics [Content protected for Club [...]
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This is a great opportunity to sharpen your evaluation skills. Look at the video below and share your evaluation of his use of voice, gestures,eye contact, etc. Also, note that this is not a formal Toastmaster speech yet there are some powerful use of skill sets. Also, note if you would do something different. For [...]
The following instructions will get you to the protected content of this powerful membership site. 1. Go to the top of the browser and key in the url for the site which is http://www.umdnjtoastmasters.com. Guess what? You already did this step successfully or else you would not be reading this post. Note that you can [...]
Our own Kevin Thompson, Area Governor, Inaugural Fall Conference Chair for District 83 and top 3 Humorous Speech winner for 2 consecutive years competing against 254 clubs in NY and NJ lends his talent for a fall workshop on both sides of the Hudson River. Kevin’s Toastmasters Workshop entitled, “The Jackson’s ABC’s of Club Development” [...]
The second place winner of the Division “A” Tale Tale contest was our VP of Membership Markell Wilson. He spoke about a scary hairy tale about a giant purple gorilla. It was a rainy night while he was taking an off road trip on his motor cycle when he sought shelter in a house. He [...]
Can you think of at least one reason to attend the upcoming Fall Conference-”KnowledgeNet 2.0? If yes, just click on the comment link below and share your convincing reason to attend. Our goal is to reach 101 reasons so please post a number next to your reason. Yes, you can post more than one reason. [...]