What do you imagine a Speakers Club is like and is your preconception accurate? I’ll be honest. When I first heard of Speakers Clubs, I had a certain image in my mind. Smoking jackets, pipes, and an old boys’ network is what I thought I would find. So, with low expectations (I was young(ish) […]
Meet the Team
Leadership at the ASC With so many changes at the ASC recently, we know it can feel hard to keep up with the who’s who, so we thought it might be helpful if the National Officers introduced themselves. We’ve included Verity who was successful at interview to succeed Tom in the spring and has […]
BLOOM ON ZOOM
Who would have thought 12 months ago that we would still be sitting in front of screens connecting with people all over the country? But while some have fully embraced the opportunities of intimacy, presenting from our front room in slippers, others are still grappling with the technology and remoteness of it all. At the […]
It’s World Speech Day!
15th March 2021 We want to become better speakers and that journey deserves the best recognition that the ASC can provide and, the widest audience possible. Two years ago, I wrote an article for the Speaker magazine about World Speech Day (WSD) and how the ASC had been working to establish a strong partnership with […]
3 simple tips to help you nail Zoom
Using Zoom for work? In the last 10 months, many of us have had to move to online platforms for work as well as play, whether that’s for meetings, presentations, or even job interviews. And speaking online should be easy, right? After all, all you have to do is log on, remember to unmute and […]
Essential Documents for the AGM 2020
The forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the General Council of the Association of Speakers Clubs To be held at 1400, Saturday 28th November 2020 via Zoom In advanced of this year’s AGM, please click on the link below to obtain all relevant document, including: (a) Agenda (b) Minutes of previous meeting of General Council (c) […]
The Speaker – Autumn 2020
Using your voice
Essential skills of a public speaker A successful and memorable speech brings together many skills. First come the idea and message behind your speech and the words you choose to convey them. Then, there is the way you organise your thoughts and the structure of your speech, something we touched on in our last post. […]
So, you’ve been asked to give a speech
Over the summer, we’ve been sharing details on our Facebook page of who we are and what we do. We’ve also been sharing lots of useful public speaking tips. For those that don’t know us, we’re one of the UK’s best-kept secrets and we’ve been around a long time! We have a network of public […]
Speaking of Impact
So what? I love this question so much. In a way this simple question encapsulates how I live my life and how I approach interactions. It doesn’t make me very popular but then this is not the metric by which I measure success. I am interested in achieving change and this question makes me better […]
