Burdekin Toastmasters

The Advanced Communication Series is designed for members who have completed their Competent Communication Program (CC) and wish to further advance their skills in particular areas of interest. Each program consists of five speech projects. Members who complete two programs are entitled to an Advanced Communicator Bronze Award (ACB), or an ACS – Silver for four programs or an ACG – Gold for six programs.

Communicating On Television

Television presentations differ from other presentations and they require special considerations. Develop the skills to do these presentations well with Straight Talk, The Talk Show, When Your The Host, The Press Conference and Training on Television.

Humourously Speaking

Most people enjoy listening to public speakers and seminar leaders who humour their presentations. The five projects in this manual - Warm Up Your Audience, Leave Them With A Smile, Make Them Laugh, Keep Them Laughing and The Humourous Speech - offer practice into using humour in your speeches to attract and retain the audience's interest and to make points more effectively..

Interpersonal Communication

Everyday we interact with many different people in a variety of situations. The following five projects, Conversing With Ease, The Successful Negotiator, Diffusing Verbal Criticism, The Coach and Asserting Yourself Effectively, will help you combine new listening and thinking skills with your already established speaking skills.

Interpretive Reading

Effective interpretive reading encourages your listeners to recreate, in their own minds, the characters and situations you present during your reading. Five projects - Read A Story, Interpreting Poetry, The Monodrama, The Play and The Oratorical Speech - will help you plan presentations that will engage the imaginations of your audience members.

Persuasive Speaking

The ability to influence and persuade others to accept you ideas, products or services is vital. The Effective Salesperson, Conquering the Cold Call, The Winning Proposal, Addressing the Opposition and the Persuasive Leader projects are all designed to help you develop excellent persuasive techniques and expand your presentation skills.

Public Relations

This complete guide to preparing and delivering the public relations speech will help you develop resources and techniques. You will achieve this by working on projects like The Goodwill Speech, The Radio Talk Show, The Persuasive Approach, Dispel the Hostility and the Crisis Management Speech.

Speaking To Inform

This program develops skills so you can better inform others of a new product, an important discovery or ways people can enhance the quality of their lives. The five speeches in this program will help you give informative and interesting speeches. Project speeches include the speech to inform, resources for informing, the demonstration talk, a fact-finding report and the abstract concept.

Special Occasion Speeches

Someday, sometime - whether attending your club, a family event or a business meeting - you will be expected to make a special speech. This manual will help you prepare for those times when you are Mastering The Toast, Speaking In Praise, Joining In The Roast, Presenting An Award or Accepting An Award.

Speciality Speeches

This program helps speakers who must be able to speak in many situations. You will find this program invaluable when you asked to Speak Off the Cuff, Uplift the Spirit, Sell a Product, Read Out Loud or Introduce the Speaker.

Story Telling

Everyone loves a good story! The projects in this manual include The Folk Tale, Let's Get Personal, The Moral Of The Story, The Touching Story and Bringing History to Life.

Technical Presentations

The five highly challenging speech projects in this manual include The Technical Briefing, The Proposal, The Non-Technical Audience, Presenting A Technical Paper and The Team Technical Presentation. They comprise a demanding set of assignments that will provide practical speaking experience for those geared towards technical careers.

The Discussion Leader

This manual offers guidance in presenting workshop and conference presentations. Both your speaking abilities and leadership qualities will be enhanced once you have staged the Seminar Solution, The Round Robin, Pilot a Panel, Make it Make Believe, and the Workshop Leader.

The Entertaining Speaker

People like to be entertained, and the entertaining speaker offers listeners a pleasant diversion from their busy and demanding lives. This program consists of 5 speeches in which you learn how to give an entertaining or a dramatic speech, where to find material, how to make an audience laugh and what to do when you asked to speak after dinner.

The Professional Speaker

This program is a complete guide to becoming a professional speaker. Talent, hard work and practice are the key attributes of the professional speaker. The five projects in this manual - The Keynote Address, Speaking to Entertain, The Sales Training Speech, The Professional Seminar and The Motivational Speech - offer practice as well as insight into the competitive world of professional speaking.