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Ensure that your anecdotes are short and crisp so that you don’t exceed the time limit and that they all introduce different facets of yourself to the audience. If you are going to use a microphone and a podium the need for practicing is even greater since here too there are chances of malfunction. Since it’s your first time onstage I would suggest that you reach the venue a little earlier and take in the atmosphere, and calm your nerves.
We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Please note: a signature is required for most deliveries so please choose an address where someone is in. Using self-deprecating humor right at the start is a very powerful technique to ease the audience into listening to you and staying with you throughout the speech.To know more tips about evaluating an icebreaker, read our extensively written article on How to Evaluate an Icebreaker?
The entire speech doesn’t have to have humour but a little somewhere will lighten the mood and make the audience root for you.
All members whether new or old, experienced Toastmasters or inexperienced ones are allocated mentors by the VP Ed of the club.
Groom’s name) made me compete for this honour today, but I was able to beat the barman over there in rock-paper-scissors, so here I am! The Icebreaker, or Project 1 (P1), is one of the last common links between the former curriculum of Toastmasters that which included CC and CL etc.So when you get up on stage and you say: “I’ve read this really interesting article in the paper today,” or “Something really interesting or strange happened to me today. I know, you shouldn’t drink the night before a wedding, but I couldn’t very well let the groom/bride drink alone, could I? Remember to tie it in the speech somewhere, either in the start of the end of make a reference to it.
