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DISCLAIMER AND/ OR LEGAL NOTICES: © 2009 Jason Peck Enterprises.

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FIRST EDITION

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Table of Contents

•  Forward – page 4

•  Welcome To Your New Speaking Career! – page 5

•  Before You Begin – page 5

•  Joining Multiple Clubs – page 7

•  How to Write a Speech in One Hour… Or Less! – page 8

•  Setting Achievable Speaking Goals – page 10 

•  Mystery Speaking – page 13

•  The Secrets of Being a General Evaluator – page 15

•  Final Thoughts – page 16

•  Resources – page 16

•  Contacting Me – page 17 

•  About The Author – page 17

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Foreword 

I just wanted to say a quick word about the content of this special report. I advocate the benefits of joining the public speaking organization,Toastmasters International over the next few pages. I am in no wayaffiliated with them, other than being a member. I do not get paid bythem whatsoever.

This report uses that organization as a resource because it has beenaround since the 1920s. It has a proven, international programmeproducing some excellent, world champion speakers such as Darren LaCroix, Ed Tate and Vikas Jhingran.

Other speakers who have benefited from the training are formerAstronaut, James Lovell; author Napoleon Hill and U.S. comedian, TimAllen.

However, there are other public speaking clubs out there like theAssociation of Public Speakers in the U.K. But I cannot vouch for thembecause I have never attended any of their meetings.

You only get out of Toastmasters, or any course or workshop for thatmatter, what you put in. If you don’t make the effort to take on thefeedback you get given in order to grow as a speaker and as a leader, if you don’t constantly seek out the opportunities to improve then you willbe exactly the same once you’ve finished your Toastmasters programmeas when you first started!

You have to be willing to fail, to learn and grow. You have to be coachable.You also should read around your subject and take every opportunity togrow. With that let’s crack on…

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 Welcome To Your New Speaking Career! 

Hello there! My name is Jason Peck and I want to personally thank you fortaking a chance on Supersonic Speaking Skills. I am about to show youthe fast and easy way to use the non-profit organisation Toastmasters

International to rapidly progress your speaking and leadership skills.

This report will talk about some of the simple and effective ways toprogress through the Toastmasters International educational programme.You might be thinking -

 “W hy do I need to go through Toastmasters fast?” 

Well, I believe that the faster you work your way through the speechmodules and manuals, the faster you can grow as a speaker and as a

person. You’ll gain confidence more quickly by doing more speaking andleadership roles, which will have a ripple effect on the other areas of yourlife!

This will be enormously beneficial whether you want to become aprofessional speaker or whether you are just do presentations in your job.

In case you’re a complete Toastmasters Newbie here’s the link to theToastmasters International website again to briefly explain what it’s allabout.

Also, if you think that joining Toastmasters involves wearing a red coat,white gloves and owning a gavel check out the article on my blog forclarity Toastmasters vs. Toastmasters.

Before We Begin... 

When I joined Toastmasters I was told that on average it takes peopleeighteen months to two years to complete the foundation “CompetentCommunicator (CC)” manual. Only 11 months after I joined I hadcompleted my tenth speech thus earning CC status!

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I would have done it even sooner than that, but I wanted to have a breakand take the odd month off here and there. I do have some semblance of a life outside Toastmasters. This was done whilst working in a full-time job.

By November 2008 I had completed the Advanced Communicator BronzeAward. Again in 11 months. 

Now you might be wondering:

“hang on there fella, there are TWO foundation manuals at

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Toastmasters – the CC manual and Competent Leader (CL) manual.

What about that one?” 

Unfortunately I am a late-starter when it comes to the CL manual and I’llexplain why...

I joined Toastmasters in August 2006 only a month after the new CC and

CL manuals came out making the older Competent Toastmaster manualobsolete. As a result the members of both the clubs I was a member of (more of that later) were not familiar with how the new manuals worked.

So I was participating in the Leadership roles of the CL manual (TableTopics master, Grammarian, Speech Evaluator, etc) without having anyof the modules evaluated in the manual. D’oh!

I was also under the mistaken impression that I had to complete the CCmanual before the CL manual, which is why I didn’t take the time to reads

through it myself. It wasn’t until late 2007 that I discovered my mistakeand set about rectifying matters because you can do both thefoundation manuals - simultaneously.

It does take a little bit longer to complete the CL manual as you will needto have attended at least 21 meetings just doing leadership roles. With myclub and the majority of others you cannot just attend and take part inonly leadership roles or only speaking roles. It’s not fair on the othermembers and it’s not fair on you because both manuals work insynchronization. So this manual took me 15 months in total.

Briefly, here’s how the CL manual breaks down...

The first leadership module requires you to complete 3 of the 4 roles listedin that section. Each module requires a different number of leadershiproles for you to complete. It breaks down like this:

1) 3 out of the 4 roles

2) 2 out of the 3 roles

3) All 3 roles

4) 1 out of the 4 roles5) 3 out of the 4 roles

6) 1 out of the 6 roles

7) 2 out of the 4 roles

8) 3 out of the 5 roles

9) 1 out of the 3 roles

10) Toastmaster and General Evaluator or one of the Contest

Organiser roles

So that means by the time you complete the CL manual you should havebeen a General Evaluator at least 4 times and a Toastmaster twice.

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 Note: It’s best if you can get yourself to other clubs in order

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to complete the GE roles rather than doing them at your own

club. This will give you a different audience to speak in front

of and keep you developing as a speaker. 

Some of the roles, like being Toastmaster, require completion over severalmeetings. So make sure that you thoroughly check the manual beforeembarking upon a particular module. Remember: every time you complete a role at Toastmasters,

whether it’s a speaking role or a leadership role, make sure

you get another member of your club to evaluate you. 

With that said, I bet you’re eager to plough through the rest of this report.The first thing you should consider to becoming a faster Toastmaster is…

Joining Multiple Clubs 

When I first joined Toastmasters I found out that the President of my clubwas married to the President of another. They suggested I go along to theother club to try it out. I was encouraged to do this because if I decided to join the second club this would increase my chances of getting speakingand leadership slots. 

Lesson: More speaking and leadership slots, means you get more

opportunities to work through speaking and leadership modules

and, ultimately, you get through the manuals faster! 

So what would happen if you were to join three clubs? Or four clubs, or

five? Obviously, make sure that it’s something that you can afford to dobefore you spend money you don’t have.

Before you dive in and join multiple clubs check out the club’s policy onguests. In some clubs you can remain a guest for up to six months. Otherplaces will allow you to be a guest for a shorter period of time.

This will save you money and gain you stage time through the impromptuspeaking session Table Topics. However, usually you won’t be able to geta speaking slot as a guest. Sometimes someone drops out at the last

minute in which case you might be able to step in and offer your services.

That said if you are a guest you might not get to hear about that asemergency speaking slots usually can come up on the day itself beforeyou get there. But it might be worth keeping an ear to the ground and joining the club’s membership list.

Lesson: always make sure that you have a spare speech ready to

go! If you can have your next speech prepared and maybe

thinking about the one after that, then you can always step in

if someone drops out. 

In order to manage your speaking and leadership roles effectively find out

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if the club you are a member of, or looking to join, has a softwareprogramme like ClubPlan or a similar piece of software. This is about £9 amonth at time of writing.

It is simply an online organization tool that allows you to book speakingand leadership roles in advance. Once you’re booked, keep a note in yourdiary (or date book) and you can prepare in advance.

Using a system like this makes it easier to book your roles as you canoften do so two months in advance. Otherwise, if it’s a paper and pensystem, it may be slightly harder to manage and you’ll have to get toknow your Vice President of Education (VPE) even better.

An alternative, free resource called Easy Speak can be found on the U.K.and Ireland’s District 71 website. I’ve yet to experience it first hand but itcomes highly recommended by some of my fellow London-basedToastmasters.

Other than that find out what system your club uses in your country, itmay be that your club uses a spreadsheet or a paper and pen. Whateverthey use get involved and get on the system!

Here’s a link again to the Find Meeting Locations page of ToastmastersInternational.

By getting yourself along to other clubs in your area it also allows you tosee the level of the other speakers and gives you something to shoot for.

Not only that but you should get as much “stage time” as possible. Thisessentially means that you get yourself in front of an audience as often aspossible. The more you get on stage the more confidence you'll gain andthe quicker your ascent will be. One of the ways in which you can do thisis by taking part in Table Topics and Leadership roles.

Table Topics is the part of the evening where you get to speak off-the-cuff for around 2 minutes. You get to exercise that part of your brain that likesto play. It helps you prepare for those situations in life where you have to

 “say a few words”.

 A word about confidence: the more you get up in front of an

audience the more opportunity you have to gain experience, the

more confident you’ll become. It’s an on-going process.

As I said in the above lesson always make sure that you have a sparespeech ready to go. However, you should also learn…

How to Write a Speech in One Hour… Or Less!

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I’ll start this chapter by saying that being able to write a speech in onehour or less is not ideal. It’s a much better if you can develop a speech

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over a period of time so that you can hone it and refine it, making surethat you have selected the correct words and that your message is clear.Remember the best speeches aren't written, they're re-written!

But sometimes that’s not always possible...

There are times when life simply gets in the way, you don’t have the timeto develop one and you're scheduled to speak tonight! Eek. Or thislunchtime!! Double Eek.

What do you do in a situation like this? You could cancel and allow a fellowToastmaster take your speaking slot. But there's no guarantee that you'llget another speaking slot any time soon as they're like gold dust atToastmasters. What you should do is use some very simple techniques towrite a speech in supersonic time!

 Note: If you have an hour for lunch during your work day then

you have more than enough time to write a speech! 

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The caveat I’ll add is that you can only really do this if you’re already really familiar with your subject.

My first four speeches at TM were done in exactly this way, but I wastalking about subjects that I already knew a lot about. So it wasn’t thatdifficult for me to write a structure, remember the points and then talk,unscripted, to the audience.

However, if it’s a subject that you are unfamiliar with then perhapswriting a speech in this manner won’t benefit you. In that situation youwould definitely need to take your time and do the proper research.

I’m going to cover two methods for writing speeches, both have beenspoken about on my blog and you can read the articles here: CreatingKiller Content Off The Cuff .

The first approach is known as I’ve dubbed The Mind Mapping SpeechMethod.

This is based upon the 3-point speech structure as laid out in the CCmanual. The difference here being that by using the memory techniqueMind Mapping you can easily plan your speech and you have a tool whichmakes the memorisation of it even easier.

As a quick side note I taught myself how to mind map by reading a bookby Tony Buzan entitled Use Your Head, which I thoroughly recommend.

Have a look at this follow-up article Creating Killer Content Off The Cuff,part 2 on my blog and you’ll see how I went about using this techniqueand creating a Mind Map to go along with it.

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 As I said before, it’s a powerful little tool because you get to memoriseyour speech’s structure as well as planning it.

The second approach that you can try is by Professional speaker andauthor Paul Evans. He talks about a quick method for writing speeches inhis bonus book “Fast Talker” which is part of his Instant Speaking Success system. I have a copy of it myself and I’ve found it an invaluable tool.

Setting Achievable Speaking Goals

Tip: You should get into the habit of setting regular speaking

goals, if you don’t do so already, and revise them at least

every six months to make you are still on track. 

I understand that goal setting is an entire book in itself, so I’m only going

to very briefly cover it as it relates to speaking.

For example, if you are new to Toastmasters ask yourself why you are a

member? What are the things that you want to get out of Toastmasters

and what can it give you? Do you want more confidence? Do you want to

learn how to be a professional speaker? Is it to improve your English? Or

is it to gain invaluable Leadership skills? Or all of the above?

Here are the questions that I would ask new members in my role as Vice

President Education (VPE) at my club in London:

1. Firstly, where are you with your progression in the manuals?

Please tell me clearly how many speech projects you have

completed in the Competent Communicator manual and how many

projects in the Competent Leadership manual.

2. Many people have found public speaking has helped them in

their career. Are there any goals you have outside the club

which you want to achieve?

3. What were your reasons for joining our club specifically?

4. What is your current status in your life with regards to

speaking and leadership? Have you given presentations in the

past?

5. What are your current goals with relation to public speaking

and leadership? Do you have a timeframe in mind that you want

to achieve your goals by? 

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6. Would you be interested in attending relevant workshops tohelp you to achieve your Toastmasters (TM) goals? 

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7. What specific areas do you find challenging? Lack of

confidence, table topics, using humour, being timekeeper, etc? 

8. Would you be interested in being mentored with the specific

speaking and leadership goals that you have?

8(b) Or if you already have a club mentor please tell me who

that is.

Once you are clear about where you want to go with Toastmasters, then

that will help you understand the direction that you need to head in with

your speaking and leadership skills. 

Set a clear goal of where you want to be then work backwards to where

you are right now in order to work out what steps you need to take. Does

that make sense?

Say, for instance, you want to be a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM)

which is the highest award in Toastmasters, and you’ve just completed

your fifth speech module in the CC manual and you’ve finished four

projects in the CL manual.

In order to become a DTM you have to have completed all the speaking

manuals from CC and CL and progress all the way through to Advanced

Communicator Gold (ACG) and you would have had to have completed

Advanced Leader Silver (ALS).

That means you have 5 speeches to go before you get Competent

Communicator status. Then obviously you have all the projects for each

communication award after that.

You will also have 6 projects to go before you complete the CL manual andthen you will have to serve at least six months as a club officer andparticipated in the preparation of a Club Success Plan while serving in thatoffice as well as conducting two programmes from The Successful Club

Series and/or The Leadership Excellence Series.

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Again after that there are a number of other duties and programmes tocomplete before you gain ALS. For further details check out the back of any of the TM manuals.

By getting clear on where it is you want to go you get clear on the amountof work that you need to undertake.

Even using this report as a reference guide, it’s still going to take you a

while to get to DTM, if that’s your goal, because of the amount of actualtime you have to put in to certain leadership positions.

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 You have to serve on the committee for at least six months whichcontributes to the Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) award.

Once you are clear on your goals you should also get clear on your reasonwhy you want to achieve those goals.

Is it for personal freedom? Is it to help others? Is it for a sense of achievement? Is it to gain confidence? Or is it to gain all importantspeaking and leadership goals which can help you in your work?

Also consider who the people are that could help you. For instance, do youneed a mentor? If so, what do you want your mentor to help you to do? Isthere a way that you can help your mentor? Do you have skills outside of Toastmasters that might be beneficial to them? Try to come up with win-win situations.

What about your evaluators? Depending on where you in the Toastmastersscheme of things it might benefit you to specifically request certain peopleto evaluate you. For instance, what level of evaluation and feedback couldyou get from an award-winning evaluator? Seek out the best to help youbecome your best.

Your VPE can also help you by assigning you a mentor, helping guide youwith your goals and also assigning you relevant speaking and leadershiproles.

Next you want to get clear on the how . How are you going to achieveyour goals? By understanding your reason why you will be able to discoverthe how of the goals that you want to achieve. Understanding the howallows you to create a step-by-step “to do” list of the small actions youneed to take in order to progress towards your goal.

Only a certain amount can be left up to chance. You need to make surethat you pounce upon any opportunities that may arise.

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If you want to become DTM then you know how many manuals you have

to get through in order to attain that. You know how frequently you canget speaking slots and so on. You know what the Leadership roles are thatyou have to undertake. So…

Develop a little action plan for yourself and you go about trying to attainyour goals. 

Small word of caution: sometimes you don’t always achieve your

goals within the time-frame that you have set for yourself.

Don’t worry about it. Simply adjust to a new time frame. I had

specific date and month that I wanted to complete my CL manual

by.

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As it turns out, the latter half of the CL manual requires more

than just doing leadership roles like speech evaluator and

grammarian. Project 6 can be working on your club’s newsletter

or helping out the webmaster. I didn’t anticipate that, so I

had to work a little bit harder on how I was going to finish

the manual.

Then the International Speech Contest and the EvaluationContest came around, so I ended up participating in those

events without previously planning to. This again put a delay

on completing the CL manual. So I simply re-grouped and re-set

the goal’s deadline. 

Mystery Speaking

Another way that you can rapidly progress in TM is to become a mysteryspeaker at the annual Evaluation Contest. Each round of the contestrequires a mystery, or demonstration, speaker. This will be a speakerwhich is unknown to the club that the particular round is occurring at. Thisis important because it allows for a completely unbiased contest as eachcontest participant would not have seen the speaker before.

The mystery speaker will also not have any “baggage” with thosecontestants. What can happen is that speakers can be known at their ownclub for certain things. They are known for being funny or motivationaland so on.

As a result you can be evaluated on your previous speeches and not

necessarily on the one that you are delivering on the night. It’s somethingI know that has happened to me and countless others.

By going to a new club, area or division the contestants don’t have anypreconceptions about you. So they evaluate you with a fresh pair of eyes.

Not only that, but speaking at different clubs will be good because you willget to appear in front of different audiences.

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In the contest season of early 2008, I was a mystery speaker four times.

Each time I spoke I received four evaluations bringing the total number of evaluations to sixteen (that’s not including any of the informalevaluations I received in the bar afterwards!)

Someone said to me that they would be scared to receive that manyevaluations and I thought: “why?” Here’s why I relished getting more thanone evaluation per speech…

Lesson: the more times you get evaluated as a speaker, or on a

particular speech, the more opportunities you have for growth. 

If your appearances are far enough apart you can tweak your speech

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according to the evaluations, change the title and then re-work the speechso that it fits a new set of objectives and bang! You have another speechmodule you can mark off.

Remember the TM ethos: every speech is a manual speech. Youjust need to know exactly which manual, or manuals, you’re

going to work through. 

If you are an Advanced Speaker already then you will probably know thatyou can jump between speech modules within a manual and jumpbetween the manuals themselves. As long as you follow each of thespeech module objectives then you should be golden.

When I completed my CC manual I went ahead and purchased all of theAdvanced Manuals. It’s not really that expensive an outlay and you canwork out which manuals will benefit you the most. For instance, for mepersonally, the “Speech for Management” wouldn’t be much use; whereas

it might be perfect for you. However, I still wanted to be able tounderstand how those particular speeches work in case I ever have tocoach a manager on their speech.

By buying all those manuals up front you can have as many manuals onthe go as you like. You don’t have complete two manuals and then orderanother two. Certain situations may suit one speech module better thananother. 

 Note: You can have more than one manual on the go so by thetime you complete two manuals to qualify for, say, ACB you can

be part way to completing ACS! 

Most of the speeches I did as mystery speaker were entertaining andhumorous, which, for me, worked better than having a straight ordramatic speech. I had already managed to land a division level slotoutside of my own division. I was due to participate after the Area level forthe International Speech Contest.

Unfortunately I lost that round so I decided to switch speeches and I re-visited my competition speech when I was mystery speaker again outside

of my Division. This provided me with the opportunity to get that speechevaluated instead of the one I had been previously using. I wanted to findout why I had lost.

There was some minor trepidation from the President of the club that Iwas visiting. Her concern was that as I was Advanced Speaker I might betoo good for the evaluation contest. But I felt that as it was a Divisionlevel contest, then those contestants are one round away from competingnationally, at the District, so they should be really good evaluators.

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So how do you become a mystery speaker?

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Simple, ask your Vice President Education (VPE) to put you in touch withVPEs of other clubs who might be in need of one. Alternatively, contactyour Area Governor (again, through your VPE or President) and makeenquiries. Your VPE should have the contact details of the other clubs inyour Division, so they can put you in touch with other clubs too.

You want to enquire quite early. The finals of the International Speechcontest usually take place in August in the U.S. So in order to qualify as amystery speaker you would need to contact the relevant people from theSeptember after the finals. You would be making yourself available for thefollowing year.

In London the preliminary club contests began in late January or earlyFebruary, but I still managed to secure myself some mystery speakingopportunities for March of the same year.

The Secrets of Being a General Evaluator

If you’ve been in Toastmasters for a while and have completed at least sixCC speeches then you can be a General Evaluator (GE). You’ve probablyheard from them numerous times at meetings.

Essentially, for those of you who don’t know, what a GE does is toevaluate all the aspects of a TM meeting that don’t get evaluated. So thatwould be the President’s welcome, the Grammarian, the Toastmaster, theTable Topics Master, all the Speech Evaluators, etc.

I would make sure that you have experienced being a speech evaluator ortable topics evaluator before you graduate to being a GE.

There are many clubs crying out for Toastmasters members to go and bea GE for them. What you should do is contact a club VPE and offer yourservices. You might then be able to get a speaking slot at their club. Theclub will probably fall over themselves to have a GE and will more thanlikely offer you the opportunity to speak, providing you are not takingaway an opportunity from their own members! 

What you might also want to consider is contacting your area or divisiongovernor and finding out if there are any newly established clubs thathave just chartered or have yet to charter. They would also welcome a GEand might even be desperate for Toastmasters to fill their speaking slots,so that’s a definite win-win.

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 Note: Make sure that when you make notes about the meeting that

you are able to keep track of where you are in your notes

because you’ll have to read them out. Many times I’ve seen a GE

lose their way in their notes and frantically flip forwards

then backwards in order to find their place. 

Also, if you have recommendations for the club try to provide possible

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solutions for that particular problem if you can. That way it becomesbeneficial to the club to see where they have room for improvement ratherthan having them just face lots of criticism and not know how they canimprove and develop.

Have a word with your President and ask if they can give you any adviceon the role.

Final Thoughts

As you may have noticed throughout this report I have used the phrasewin-win a few times. Whilst this may come across as a cliché of the self help world, it is the best way to think. With Toastmasters it’s not justabout what you can get out of the club it’s also about what you put in.Like a lot of things in life.

With each of the approaches that I have provided here, in order for you to

move faster through the Toastmasters organisation there has to a certainamount of mutual benefit.

What you can also consider doing is some extra curricular education. Don’talways rely on Toastmasters to provide you with your knowledge of publicspeaking. There are many professional speakers out there who offertraining, seminars and a variety of other products which you can learnheaps from and then bring into your club experience.

The resources section contains useful information that can help you to

develop enormously as a speaker. 

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Resources

Here are some useful links to different speaker’s resources. I have alreadyincluded a link to the Toastmasters International website earlier in thisreport.

If you’re based in the U.K. you might find the website for District 71 (forthe U.K. and Ireland) a useful resource. Check it out here D71. 

Darren La CroixHumor 411 - World Champion of Speaking 2001 has various products onimproving your presenting skills, using humour and becoming aprofessional speaker in a week.

Paul EvansInstant Speaking Success - Allows you to design, develop and deliverunforgettable message to your audience that are bang on target!

Eric FengFAQ Book on Public Speaking – fellow speaker and blogger Eric Feng has

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co-authored a book on frequently asked questions as they relate to publicspeaking.

World Champion’s ResourcesWorld Champion’s Edge – this is a membership site where you can gainaccess to six world champion speakers and one Hall of Fame speaker. Notonly that but you get access to other members in the forums as well ashaving the opportunity to receive a speech critique. 

Steve RoyeThe Fast Start Guide - Learn a fast and easy method for adding humour toyour speech and presentations by professional comedian and speakerSteve Roye. 

Contacting Me 

I would love to hear from you with any questions, comments or positive

feedback that you may have about this report. Please pop over to my blogand leave comments using this link:

Pro Humorist Feedback 

In an age where attention is fast becoming a rare commodity I thank youfor yours.

About The Author

Jason Peck is an award-winning Humorist, Speaker and Coach andprovides empowering speeches, valuable business training and morale-boosting entertainment.

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He draws on his background as a professional actor and comedian andemphasizes a practical approach based on real-life experience, researchand proven techniques.

He completed his Competent Communicator manual in 11 months andcompleted Advanced Communicator Bronze in 11 months as well and

finished the Competent Leader manual in 15 months. He was also VicePresident Education for the oldest Toastmasters club in London, Grosvenor

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Square Speakers, for the 2008-2009 Toastmasters term.

For further information about Jason, check out his main site:www.jasonpeck.co.uk and his blog http://prohumorist.com.

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