How To Create a Blank Powerpoint Slide

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When you are giving a Powerpoint presentation, it’s a good idea to remember that YOU are the presentation and not your slides. Your slides should just add valuable content to your presentation. To instantly bring your audience back to yourself, a great technique is to put up a blank slide. Since there is nothing on [...]

How to Win a Speech Contest

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I’ve been a member of Toastmasters International for over 15 years. In that time I’ve seen hundreds of speeches and been a part of many speech contests, both as a participant and a judge. I’ve also had the privilege of judging many Rotary 4-way student speech contests for high school students. With this experience I [...]

Speech Evaluation Forms

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Here are some speech evaluation forms that go with our speech evaluation series over the past week including… Four H Speech Evaluation Four H Powerpoint Evaluation Fiction Writer’s Speech Evaluation Fiction Writer’s Speech Evaluation Form The Fiction Writers Evaluation looks at a speech like one would look at a good book. It works well for [...]

The Four H PowerPoint Presentation Evaluation

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Last week I published a blog post about doing a Four H speech Evaluation. This is a specific speech evaluation technique that works well for sales, marketing, or persuasive presentations. These Four H’s Include: Head: Make Me Think Heart: Make Me Feel Hands: Ask Me to Take Action Humor: Bring a Smile to Your Audience [...]

The Fiction Writer’s Guide To Speech Evaluation

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It’s contest season at Toastmasters and I’ve listened to quite a few powerful speeches and also some compelling evaluations over the past month. When I evaluate a speech, I like to give the speaker some simple to remember guidelines to help them improve their presentation and take it to a higher level. My 4H approach [...]