We are deeply saddened to inform you of the sudden passing this week of our beloved founding member of West Side Talkers Isaak Gelbinovich. Isaak was an integral part West Side Talkers, a vibrant Toastmasters club on the Upper West Side of New York City that I had founded back in 2009. Isaak…
After many years of coaching speakers, one of the biggest challenges that I see most speakers face is how to ‘keep’ their audience tuned in throughout their speech.
A few months ago, Cindy a 16 year old high school student showed up as a guest at the West Side Talkers toastmasters public speaking club that I founded on the Upper West Side of New York City.
The next time you go down to your neighborhood supermarket take a stroll down the cereal aisle and you’ll find something quite interesting.
I attended an event with a speaker who was introduced to deliver a speech and then about one minute into his 20 minute presentation he starts to talk about a magazine.
Have you ever seen a speaker that was talented, successful, and seemed to have a solid message but yet, you still walked away from that speech feeling like there was something missing?
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know if you have it, the feeling that comes with the anticipation of your upcoming speech. Even as you go about your normal day, you can’t stop thinking about your speech.
Nothing will pull an audience into your speech more than telling them a captivating story and unfortunately, I have to say, that many speakers miss the mark entirely when it comes to this.
I delivered a message of hope to the 1000 attendees at the Kean University Holocaust Memorial this past Monday evening May 2, 2011.
The number three is a magical number in the English language. We see it in movie titles as in “The Three Stooges, The Three Musketeers and The Three Amigos,” we see it as far back as being the most famous phrase in the Unites States declaration of independence.