Rio Speak Out Toastmasters

What about a meeting with 6 Continents?!

It`s a great opportunity to travel around the world ;-)

UNITED IN DIVERSITY
This is an opportunity to experience the power of Toastmasters!

Why? It`s because we can have a taste from all six continents during a two hours meeting. We will listen speeches from all over the world, we will have opportunity to answer impromptu and funny questions during Table Topics, we will have the speech evaluators perspective within an intercontinental environment. The Mission of Toastmasters International is "...empower individuals to become more effective communicators and leaders", but the world is united and diversity is the only learning goal capable to form effective world leaders.

Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. So, nothing better than a real Toastmasters meeting where the sweet flavor of worldwide can be tasted. Join us!

You’re warmly invited to: Toastmasters – Intercontinental Joint Meeting 6 Clubs – 6 Continents

When: Saturday, May 2 2020
Time: 12:00 PM GMT

Perth, WA (Australia): 8pm AWST
Kaduna (Nigeria): 1pm WAT
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): 9am BRST
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia): 3pm AST
Liverpool (England): 1pm BST
New York (USA): 8am EDT

Participating Clubs:
Asia - Taj Toastmasters (Saudi Arabia)
Africa- Gemstones Toastmasters (Nigeria)
Europe - Liverpool City Toastmasters (England)
South America - Carioca Toastmasters (Brazil)
North America - New York Toastmasters Club (USA)
Australia - Zoom Masters Toastmasters (West Australia)

Limited space available!

Hurry to reserve your seat here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlceitrzkjGN2zrNgDVeX_ETeD_hkooBB8

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

See you on Saturday!

Today our president Felipe Sandin concluded his project number 10 from Competent Communication Guide. He won the blue ribbon for Best Speaker of the day and he was the only winner of the day because when we have only to candidates to be voted, in this case as Best Evaluator and Table Topic we cancelled the voting.

Felipe delivered the inspiration project with excellence and he is already looking forward to the Advanced Manuals.

Congratulations!!!

Last meeting we had the pleasure to watch Clécio Nascimento deliver his last speech. He completed the 10th project from Competent Communicator book, and he delivered that with excellence.Congratulations Clecio!!!

Today Rio Speak Out had its Third Table Topic Contest and the most amazing aspect of the event was the quality of participants. All of them performed marvelously!

Congratulations to Clécio Nascimento who organized the contest & Super Congratulations to the winners...
First Place - Carlos Meirelles
Second Place - Thayná Neves
Third Place - Felipe Mendonça

Guys, you taught us something and you all made us laugh. Thank you very much!!! :-)

Today we had an remarkable meeting as we announced it would be. It was time for celebration!

We had our first member graduating on Parhway Learning Experience, Daniel Caputo, and we Honored Andrea Cinelli for his continue sponsorship of our club. On top of it, we had a full room, wonderful speeches and speech evaluations, which attest RSO is going on the right direction, contributing to members development.

Congratulations to the winners of the day, for the presence of many managers and for the message delivered today about members mutual support. We really try to build up a penalty free environment, a place where people can expose themselves and come out better than when they came in.

Congratulations to Mr.Caputo for your accomplishment & Thank You Mrs.Cinelli for your amazing support 🙏🏾👍🏾

Next Tuesday, Nov 5th, we will have a Special Meeting. It will be time to Celebrate the support of a leader who has be key to the success of our club and to Celebrate the success of a member who will be the first one to complete the pathways educational program.

IBM Pasteur, Auditorium MA10 - 12pm

Recently we received the Branded Materials we earned from Toastmasters International due to our win of last Photo Contest. We are armed with Ribbons for next couple years, including Ribbons for club contests and some other items for any additional prizes and recognitions :-)

Each club meeting is a milestone for members and on top of it our encounter bring us information and entertainment

Daniel Caputo is the first Rio Speak Out (RSO) member to achieve Pathways Level 5, it means he is almost there to also be the first RSO member to finish Pathways Learning Experience.

Today Mr.Caputo delivered a project that required him to speak up to 22 minutes, and he delivered it with talent. The project was "Prepare to Speak Professionally" from the Path Leadership Development. He spoke about how he became a succesful athlete even being diabetic, and teach us that we should put our goals on top of our personal issues or any obstacle we may face during the course of our lives.

Congratulations and Thank you for teach us so much!

Today we promoted our 1st Speech Evaluation Contest. It was an wonderful experience, for real guys! Toastmasters provide this gamification environment where we can learn while playing and if there was something positive about this contest it was for sure the learning aspect in a light-hearted context.
Congratulations to Ana Carolina Araujo who WON THE FIRST PLACE on podium providing a very constructive and estructured feedback to the speech delivered.

We really recommend the members involvement on this type of event which has the ability to enhance our learning process and deliver fun and excitement to all.
Thank you Jefferson Souza for your dedication to make this happen! Great job!!! Thank you!

First Place Ana Carolina Araujo
Second Place Danielle Marques
Third Place Camilo Costa
Contestants Caroline Monteiro
Marcello Mello

What to Look for in a Good Speech
Does it have a singular, unified point or challenge?

Ask yourself, “Do all of my key points support and develop my main point?”

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2019/oct/what-to-look-for-in-a-good-speech

From time to time, I am asked, “What do you look for in a speech?”

We hear speeches and presentations all the time, don’t we? It might be at Toastmasters, a business presentation, a sermon at church, or a political speech.

But it doesn’t stop there. My wife and I frequently watch made-for-TV movies. They are, in effect, presentations in a different genre. When one is over, my wife asks me what I thought. And she knows that she will get a critique. As I started writing this article, I realized that the three key criteria I use in evaluating a presentation are the same I use in evaluating a TV story.

First of all, I look for a clear message or theme. Is there a singular, unified point or challenge?

All too often, a speech is nothing more than a data dump. The speaker has done a lot of research and feels compelled to give us the benefit of all that they have discovered. Rather than a central point, the presentation is nothing more than a lot of partially connected details. When you get right down to it, a phone book is also a collection of details. And reading it is about as interesting as those data-dump presentations. We are left with the question, “Why are you telling me this?”

The second quality that I look for in a presentation is the ability to hold my attention. This is related to my previous point. If the speaker presents a central, well-supported idea, he or she will hold my attention. The aforementioned data dump will not achieve that. But a poorly organized central idea will also lose my interest–quickly. It isn’t enough to have a central theme. In order to hold the audience’s attention, you must effectively support and develop it.

Let’s come back to those made-for-TV movies. There are principles of storytelling that are important to follow. Michael Hauge and Craig Valentine have both cataloged them well. Some TV movies do a good job, and I enjoy watching them multiple times. Others are just a series of minor events, minor problems, with no overarching problem to solve. The scriptwriters may have written down a theme idea, but they didn’t develop it. Boring.

Ask yourself, “Do all of my key points support and develop my main point?”

This pattern is unfortunately also present in many standard presentations. That is why I am not a big fan of PowerPoint presentations. They tend to drive presentations away from that central theme and toward the details. Especially when the speaker reads every … single … bullet. Boring.

Ask yourself, “Do all of my key points support and develop my main point?” If not, your listeners might opt to check their email or just plain check out.

Another source of lost attention is when a speaker has too much time on their hands.

All too often, I hear a speaker with 20 minutes of material try to fill a 40-minute time slot. One disadvantage of having too much time for your material is that you do not feel the need to edit. Editing is not just removing words. It also involves tightening up your message so that it is more succinct, more on-point, and, hence, more powerful. If the speech wanders, so will the listener’s mind.

The third quality that I look for is good delivery. I have learned from my work with voice-over narration that good delivery enhances your message. Effective delivery not only includes emphasizing the right words and phrases, it also includes the effective use of rhetorical devices and cadence. I enjoy a speech where the words roll nicely off the tongue. I also enjoy reading well-written speeches. My favorites include Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” Douglas MacArthur’s “Duty, Honor, Country,” and Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.” Try reading them out loud. As you do, imagine that you are standing in front of a large audience. How would you deliver them? This is great practice for your own speeches. Push yourself to fully express the thoughts and emotions of the speech.

What I specifically look for in a good speech may be different than what you prefer. I would submit, however, that these three criteria (a clear message, organized flow, and good delivery) need to be there in some form. These are foundations that you build upon and include in your speech writing and in your evaluations.

By Bill Brown, DTM

Toastmasters International - We hear speeches and presentations all the time, don’t we? It might be at Toastmasters, a business presentation, a sermon at church, or a political speech.