by Ellee Seymour | Mar 3, 2010 | Toastmasters
Last night I was Table Topics Master at Cambridge Speakers’ Club and I invited members and courageous guests to imagine they were parliamentary candidates trying to win votes. The role of the TTM is to provide different questions which speakers can respond to...
by Ellee Seymour | Dec 20, 2009 | Toastmasters
My last Toastmasters’ speech a couple of weeks ago was about the many wonders of walking; my joy of belonging to The Ramblers’ Association and the Ramblers Group in Cambridge. There were many smiles when I told the audience they could literally walk into love,...
by Ellee Seymour | Jun 21, 2009 | Toastmasters
I was at the 10th anniversary dinner of Cambridge Speakers’ Club a few days ago and asked our area governor Graham Frost whether the recession had seen a decline of membership. I wondered if Toastmaster clubs were closing due to lack of support. On the contrary,...
by Ellee Seymour | Apr 10, 2009 | Toastmasters
You may have noticed that a side panel with my Toastmasters speeches has vanished. That is because I am no longer preparing them in the same way. And they had been there a while anyway and were pretty old. I used to write my speeches in full and learn them almost word...
by Ellee Seymour | Nov 11, 2008 | Toastmasters, updates
I am meeting a strange woman at King’s Cross Station, London today – strange in the sense that she is unknown to me – to research another hopefully gripping instalment of a book I am writing. All will be revealed in due course. I’m hoping we...
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