The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club Blog
Public Speaking and Leadership
The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club BLog features articles on leadership skills, tips and guides on how to improve your public speaking skills. We will also publish some of the scripts of our prepared speeches given during chapter meetings and speech contests, as well as summary journals of our chapter meetings.
Prepared Speeches
Club Contest Speech 2025
The Inspiration Behind This Speech This content of this speech was originally the introduction of my Club Contest Speech 2025 - "I Learn! I Grow! I Evolve!" Whenever I write my script for a prepared speech, it is usually very long and I have to remove more than 50...
Engage Your Audience With Humour
Objectives Of The "Engage Your Audience With Humour" Project: The purpose of this project is for the member to determine their style of humor and apply it to a speech that centers around a central message. Give a 5- to 7-minute speech on your point of view...
Connect With Storytelling
Objectives Of The “Connect With Storytelling” Project The purpose of this project is for the member to practice using a story within a speech or giving a speech that is a story. Pathway Level 3 projects consist of one compulsory project and two elective...
Public Speaking Skills
How To Use PowerPoint In Public Speaking
When To Use PowerPoint In Public Speaking How to use PowerPoint in public speaking? PowerPoint has become a standard software used in public speaking in our current Information Communication Technology age. With the increasing accessibility and affordability of LCD...
How To Improve Your English
This article focuses on how to improve your English. The suggestion that I am giving here is an amalgamation of my experiences in struggling to learn the English language. Although English language was my first language and Chinese was my second language back in...
Overcoming The Fear Of Public Speaking
Overcoming the fear of public speaking is the number one task you need to undertake. Failing which, your fear will stifle your presentation and the content of your speech will not be delivered effectively to your audience. The fear of public speaking has been listed...
Chapter Meeting Journals
Chapter Meeting – 20 Jan 2022
This was our sixth Combined Chapter Meeting of The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club and Telok Blangah Toastmasters Club for the term July 2021 to June 2022, held on 18 November 2021. President's Opening Address The President’s Opening Address was given by...
Chapter Meeting – 18 Nov 2021
This was our fourth Combined Chapter Meeting of The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club and Telok Blangah Toastmasters Club for the term July 2021 to June 2022, held on 18 November 2021. President's Opening Address The President’s Opening Address was given by Elaine Tan,...
Chapter Meeting – 21 Oct 2021
This was our third Combined Chapter Meeting of The Open Alumni Toastmasters Club and Telok Blangah Toastmasters Club for the term July 2021 to June 2022, held on 21 October 2021. Last month (September) we did not have usual Chapter Meeting but we held our Joint Club...
Leadership Skills
3 Kinds of Mentorship
What is mentoring? There are 3 kinds of mentorship from my past observations. However, what does a mentor mean to you? According to Oxford Dictionary, a mentor is "an experienced person who advises and helps somebody with less experience over a period of time." Do you...