Dallas Public Speaking at SMU Toastmasters

How Toastmasters works.

At Toastmasters, members learn
communication skills by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment.

SMU Toastmasters - One of the Dallas Toastmasters chapters

Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice:

Conducting meetings.

Giving impromptu speeches. Use "table topics" to think on your feet.

Effectively develop and present ideas :

Confront and control any nervousness you may have.

Learn the value of gestures and body movement as part of a speech.

Develop a sense of timing and natural, smooth body movement.

Focus on areas such as organization, voice, language, and gestures.

Utilize vocal variety. Developing the use of volume, pitch, rate and quality.

Achieve persuasion by appealing to the audience's self-interest, building a logical foundation for agreement, and arousing the emotional interest of your.

Offering & accepting constructive criticism. Every prepared speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out speech strengths and offers suggestions for improvement.

Toastmasters produces results. Around the world more than three million men and women of all ages and occupations have benefited from Toastmasters training, and more than one thousand corporations, community groups, universities, associations, and government agencies now use Toastmasters training.

A number of the nation's best universities have chartered local chapters of Toastmasters :

Carnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University
Southern Methodist University

Texas A&M
Thunderbird
UCLA Graduate School of Management

University of Canterbury
University of Hong Kong
University of Texas Graduate School of Business