The hardest thing for me to do in creating a speech is memorizing it.  What if I forget what I planned to say?  What if I forget something important?

Here's are some great tips on how to memorize your speech:

Are you ready to be a mentor?  This is the presentation I made several months back to introduce the mentoring program.  Since then the list of mentors has grown, but not enough to support the increase in new members!  

By the way, this is not an example of an excellent speech (I think I can do better), but this is posted here for the content.

Theme of the day:  "Someday is not a day of the week!"

by Marc Miller

In Securely Speaking it is the job of the Speech Evaluator to introduce the speaker.  It's how we transition between the Toastmaster and the speaker, and it helps us practice the skill of introducing a speaker.

Thankfully, no one has introduced me with "“H-e-e-r-e’s Marc!” as it tells the audience nothing about who I am other than that the introducer thinks of me as being in the same category as late-night TV show hosts like Johnny Carson.

Rather than explain the finer points of introducing a speaker, I'm going to refer...

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