Does anyone think it\\'s weird to spend reach meeting practicing speaking skills, yet the Toastmasters motto \\"Where Leaders Are Made\\" focuses more on leadership than on public speaking? Perhaps you thought it was some sort of remnant from a previous iteration of the program, or that Toastmasters is trying to be something that it\\'s not. Or maybe that it shows where we\\'re going, and we haven\\'t yet arrived. 

No, the motto is accurate. Perhaps it\\'s not visible to the person attending our club meeting, but in order to be a good speaker in Toastmasters, you need...

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It is my pleasure to announce one of our members was recently featured on Toastmasters Time TV (a YouTube channel produced by Toastmasters International)!  She'''ll be giving this speech to us again tomorrow, February 11th at the regular Securely Speaking Toastmasters meeting.

Nicole has come a long way as a non-native English speaker.  Let'''s celebrate this wonderful accomplishment!

Perhaps you\''ve wished that as you practiced you had someone in the back of the room with the stoplight to tell you whether it\''s time to wrap up, or whether you need to fill the available time with Q&A?  Rather than taking home the stoplight, I\''ve got a better solution for you than the stoplight.  District 4 Toastmasters hosts an automatic stoplight.  You tell it what your time targets are, and the computer screen will be your timer.

Go to http://d4tm.org/images/html/Speech_Timer/speech_timer_1024x768.htm to...

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