Tuesday, November 11, 2014

 

Finding a topic to suit your speciality and a speech requirement

If you meet the secretary of a non-toastmasters club looking for speakers they will ask what subject you speak about. Select your speciality, e.g. which could be sports and endurance. Then find a sports topic to fit the subject. eg
Storytelling, anything from Greek myths to Bruce Lee to the founder of the paralympics.
Information - For to inform; anything on sports, eg sports equipment, weight loss, health for office workers or later life retirees; insurance; sports clinics and sports injuries;   exercise on planes.
Entertaining/ and sports: films about sports; dramatic rescues; ski feats; paragliding; bungee jumping; ice (skating) dancing; sports romances - your favourite character or that of your audience, near misses in endurance sports.
Failing all else, google all the subjects and people related to your area of expertise (your work, family, hobbies or interests - or even what you cannot do).
Find some quotations on sport. Write a speech about one of these quotations. Start by doing it as a timed table topic. On Skype to your mentor. Or alone just record it or make notes afterwards and expand this into a speech.
You should get a mentor from your club to talk through possible subjects on the phone.
Angela Lansbury
Member of HOD and Harrovians clubs in London.
Former President of Harrovians.
ACG. CL.
Author of Quick Quotations.
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