Charlottetown Toastmasters Breakfast Club

Table Topic and the Freeze!
BUY YOURSELF 3 SECONDS- Smile, breathe, and repeat the topic in your own words

START WITH ANYTHING NOT EVERYTHING - You do not need the best idea. You need a starting idea.
Instead of thinking, “What is the perfect answer?” think: “What is one example I can talk about?”

USE A PERSONAL STORY - Stories are easier than opinions because you already know what happened.
Example:
“This reminds me of my first time speaking in front of a group. I expected to be calm, but the reality was that my hands were shaking…”Once you begin a story, the speech usually flows.

HAVE A RESCUE PHRASE READY - When your mind goes blank, use one of these:
“Let me put that another way.”“The main point I want to make is…”“A simple example of this is…”“What I have learned from this is.These phrases help you restart without looking lost.

DO NOT APOLOGIZE - Avoid saying:
“Sorry, I don’t know what to say.”Instead, pause and continue. A pause feels much longer to you than it does to the audience.

PRACTICE WITH RANDOM PROMPTS - Pick any object near you and speak for 30 seconds about it. Then build up to 1 minute and 2 minutes.
For example: “A pen teaches us that small tools can create big ideas…”This trains your brain to connect quickly.

USE ONE OF THESE:
Past — Present — Future
“In the past… Today… In the future…”
Point — Example — Lesson
“I believe… For example… What this teaches us is…”
Expectation — Reality — Lesson
“I expected… The reality was… I learned…”
For Table Topics, the third one is especially useful.

Great Saturday meeting on line- thanks for sharing stories ! Next week the Elections for our 25/26 Leadership roles.
P.S Take a look at these smiles !

The Power of Body Language
Your presence speaks before your words do.
Posture, gestures, and facial expressions can help you look more confident, credible, and connected with your audience.

Let your presence speak too.

We are in the busiest part of our Toastmasters year.
We had our Annual conference last week, which was really good fun, lots of speeches, lots of learning, lots of stories, lots of laughs.

Now, as we near the end of our toastmasters year, we are thinking about goals, objectives and our targets for 2026/27.

Oh My, there are so many things that we can do to try and help each other grow and maybe introduce new people into our club who would like to be able to confidently tell a story, understand about listening skills, understand about body language, understand about communicating the best of their ability.

Its an exciting year 2026 into 2027 with Charlottetown Toastmasters breakfast club Saturday mornings 9 o’clock till 10:30 AM.

Set the weekend off with a fabulous kickstart lots of stories laughs fun and camaraderie. We welcome new guests. We welcome new members and we hope you’re having a fantastic weekend.

Please join us in welcoming Farhana Shawon to the Charlottetown Toastmasters Breakfast Club!

Farhana is an MBBS doctor who completed her medical graduation in Bangladesh. She has seven years of experience in Gynecology. Now living in PEI, she is preparing for her Canadian medical licensing exams and continuing her journey of professional growth. As a newcomer she is keen to improve her communication and leadership skill to pursue her upcoming profession.

We are delighted to have Farhana join our Toastmasters family and look forward to learning from her experience, dedication, and inspiring journey.

Welcome to the club, Farhana Shawon .

Congratulations to Our Guest Mashiyat Promi, our Outstanding Table Topics Speaker of the Week on 16 May!

Mashiyat is a researcher at a biotech company in PEI, and she brought that same curiosity, confidence, and quick thinking to our Toastmasters meeting. Her spontaneous response, fun personality, and positive energy made our morning session even more engaging and memorable.

Well done, Mashiyat Promi. We were so happy to meet you.

A Great Training session on AI and here is the proof!
A great Session on Sink or Swim, Face the fire and so much more as usual at the toastmasters Conference!

Great time in Halifax !

Our ladies representing.