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Toastmasters
Andrew Moss
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Oxford Speakers Club Past President, Former Head of Public Relations, Oxford Regional Health Authority.
"People ask me why I keep coming back to Toastmasters after 25 years.
That’s easy.
It’s because of the repeated excitement of watching members who start with very limited speaking skills blossom into a new-found confidence as speakers and leaders.
It’s the process I went through years ago and I am still learning now."
Paul Ovington
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I joined Oxford Speakers Club to master the art of public speaking. I am at the stage of my career where I need to impart all my knowledge to other people and wish to do so in the most effective way possible. In particular, I run my own training courses in management and project management. Besides that, by listening to the other club members speak you can learn so much about life outside you own sphere of experience.
It’s much better than watching the television!!
Gavin Allinson
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I joined Oxford Speakers Club in December 2004. I had heard a number of my clients mentioning that they were members of Toastmasters so I thought I would investigate.
I was impressed by the breadth of experience and capability of the people at Oxford Speakers club, there were a couple of speakers who I thought wow they should be on the stage and there were some others who just froze and couldn’t get their words out.
Camille Koppen
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"I joined the Oxford Speakers Club in order to improve my presentation skills and also to make my CV look better (after all, Toastmasters is a famous organization, and employers are looking for people presentation skills).
Since joining, I have greatly improved my presentation skills (I enjoy presenting now) and have met some great new people. Now I attend meetings not to boost my CV but because I really enjoy the meetings and am learn a lot from them.
Ning-Ning Li
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"I joined Toastmasters because I was sick of being absolutely terrified when talking to an audience greater than one. Giving good presentations is an excellent transferable skill for any profession, and I love attending because it gives me the chance to meet people outside the university circle with loads of interesting experience to share.
No other place offers such a friendly and supportive environment for public speaking - the only way to improve is to get up there and do it!"
Paul Ardern
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"Having spent most of my life avoiding speaking in public, it took me a while to summon up the resolve to go to my first meeting. It’s come as rather a shock to realize that that was the hardest part.