INCRedible Toastmasters Club

🌍Our Fall 2022 Open House was a stupendous success, with an impressive turnout both in-person and virtually!

🧑🏻‍🎨The highlight of the event was our keynote speaker Lord whose terrific speech opened our eyes to various life and career lessons we can learn from artists!

👯‍♀️ Our club's leadership team was in action mode - President Michael J. Bowles opened and closed the meeting, while VP Public Relations Rohit Mujumdar was Toastmaster of the Day. While our Secretary Felicia Kemp, delved into the nuances of speech and evaluation at a Toastmasters meeting, our VP Eduction Brennan Day delineated the benefits of being a member of the club.

💥The fun part of the meeting was helmed by VP Membership Andrew Padron, who posed impromptu Table Topic questions to our attendees!

🎖Thank you to everyone who helped make this event a great success!

🎯Be a part of our Toastmasters club - feel free to comment or DM us!

(PS: We are already looking forward to our next open-house! 🙈👀)

📸 Here are a few glimpses from the event ~

One of the latest episodes of the Huberman Lab podcast (https://hubermanlab.com), could be of interest to those who want delve deeper into the science and complexities of human speech and language, to improve their communications skills!

Here, Andrew Huberman speaks with Erich Jarvis — Professor and the Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language at Rockefeller University and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

They primarily discuss the unique ability of humans (and certain animal species) to learn and communicate using complex language
including verbal speech production and the ability to interpret both written and spoken language.

A few relevant points of discussion include :
1. Learning new languages (at any age!)
2. Stutter, "Ums, Ers" and improving speech fluidity
3. How reading books improves speech
4. Exercises for improving speech

Here's a quick summary and other takeaways from the episode : https://lnkd.in/gQDyjrsZ

Here's the official episode page : https://lnkd.in/gwmnWnvQ

What takeaway from the episode do you think help you in your Toastmasters journey? Tell us in the comments below 👇

Huberman Lab Hosted by Dr. Andrew Huberman, The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses science and science-based tools for everyday life. New episodes are released every Monday.

A well-written speech is a job half done for delivering a great speech! We are loving these practical tips for writing good speeches!

Any tips you have found useful for speech-writing? Comment below!

Want to become a better speechwriter? From eliminating the obvious to choosing vigorous language, these 10 tips will teach you how to wield your words and get to the point.
https://bit.ly/TI_WritingTips22

Some skills are durable, but others are perishable? How do you differentiate between the two? How do you hone and sustain them? Read on to find out!

Remember when skills used to be considered soft or hard? Employers are now looking into more wide-ranging skills rooted in behaviors and personalities, and the new terms are literal: durable or perishable. Discover the difference between the two and read how honing your durable skills in Toastmasters can benefit you in the workplace.
https://bit.ly/Ti_SoftSkills22

A Toastmasters Club is a great way of improving your grammar and vocabulary! At every Toastmasters Club, we have a Grammarian, who keeps track of the grammar used during the meeting and plays the role of Word-of-the-Day Master.

They present a “word for the day” at the beginning of the meeting, keep track, and report on who used it. Being Word of the Day Master also provides an exercise in expanding listening skills.

Here are the Words-of-the-day for the month of September 2022, at Club:

Sep 7 – Visionary : A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like

Sep 14 - Histrionic : Overly theatrical or melodramatic in character and style

Sep 21 – Superfluous : Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

Sep 28 – Obfuscate : To make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally

+ = 🚀💪⚡️❤️👑!

A few weeks ago, we had the absolute pleasure of conducting a communication skills workshop for the Women In NCR organization.

The workshop focused on learning how to write and deliver effective Elevator Pitches, a handy tool everyone has to use at multiple points in their careers.

Toastmasters Hilor Shah and Felicia Kemp spearheaded the session by giving the audience a tutorial, complete with practical tips on how to develop, refine and deliver elevator pitches in different professional contexts and settings.

Toastmasters Rohit Mujumdar, Derek Sabino and Michael J. Bowles ensured a smooth flow of the session while also acquainting the audience with what a Toasmasters club is all about!

The best part of the session was when women in the audience worked with one another to develop their own elevator pitches, gave each other feedback and even presented some of the pitches in front of everyone - all in true style!

Here are a few glimpses from the session ~

We are looking forward to all our guests joining us tomorrow for our Spring Open House!

"In 2020 with the increase in virtual meetings I saw my colleague Marvin Hernandez host engaging virtual meetings with a confidence that was inspiring. When I asked him for tips he introduced me to Toastmasters and sharing that I could do it too. Marvin invited me to virtually join a meeting as a guest that summer. I was impressed and a little overwhelmed with the level of organization the meeting had but also saw the same confidence in many of the members. I pondered joining for the remainder of 2020 until finally stepping out of my comfort zone in January 2021.

A year later I've seen how Toastmasters has been helped me bring the experience gained through our weekly meetings and the lessons learned during my pathways education into my career and personal life. In fact I'm proud to say that being a member of the iNCRedible Toastmasters club helped me get promoted!

Thank you Marvin for introducing me to International and to my fellow iNCRedible Toastmasters Club members for supporting and encouraging my growth!" Michael J. Bowles

Hey iNCRedible Toastmasters Fans,

We have a LinkedIn page now. Please take a look and give us a follow!

iNCRedible Toastmasters | LinkedIn iNCRedible Toastmasters | 6 followers on LinkedIn. Where Leaders Are Made | iNCRedible Toastmasters Club is an Atlanta based member of Toastmasters International - District 14 Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our membership is 364,000 strong.....

Looking forward to today's meeting with Michael J. Bowles serving at TMOD. If you've thought about joining Toastmasters, iNCRedible Toastmasters is a hybrid club that has members calling in from as far away as Serbia. Check out our website: https://1202015.toastmastersclubs.org/ or send us a message here on Facebook

iNCRedible Toastmasters The official web site of Toastmasters club #1202015, iNCRedible Toastmasters Club.

There is no meeting today. Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving! See you all next week