What makes a great speaker? We asked visitors to the Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club stand at the Anglia Business Exhbition #ABE16 on 15th June at Trinity Park to select one of the displayed public speakers – and identify the main characteristic of a powerful communicator. Most popular speaker was Barack Obama, who was praised for his confidence […]
Business benefits of a community club
Find out how your business can benefit when your employees join our club.
Toastmasters 90th anniversary
October 2015 is the last month for Toastmasters International to celebrate their very special 90th anniversary. Join us to enjoy the celebration!
Distinguished Toastmaster Teresa Dukes, member of Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club and Speak Easy at Martlesham, has been elected to the Toastmasters International Board of Directors. As an International Director, Teresa will have responsibility for upholding the mission of Toastmasters International and serving as its ambassador; developing organisational strategy and policies, and ensuring their implementation; approving […]
Finding Your Voice
After our empowerment workshop led by RICHARD FALLON, a highly creative and inspirational voice and communication skills trainer and coach, we discovered how to use our voices to project our personalities and perfect our pitches for the new contract, job promotion, or key role in our organisations. Same day we celebrated our 20th anniversary. More […]
A few highlights from our history
To mark the milestone of 20th anniversary in the club’s history, we’ve organised a fantastic empowerment workshop on Saturday 23rd May 2015, in the stunning setting of the Suffolk Food Hall, at Wherstead, near Ipswich, Suffolk. Voice and communications coach Richard Fallon will lead the Finding Your Voice workshop, and help us discover how to use […]
How we celebrated our 20th Anniversary in 2015
Humorous speech contest prize winner
Please welcome our club member Vikas Shivshankar, who won his first 3d place prize at Toastmasters Area 1 HUMOROUS SPEECH CONTEST last Saturday, 28 September 2014. Excellent archievement among all Suffolk and Essex clubs!
The tale of the castrated camel
With a tale about castrating a camel when the circus came to town, Brian Faulkner, from the Speak Easy at Martlesham Speakers’ Club, won the Toastmasters International UK and Ireland Humorous Speech Contest on Saturday 9th November 2013 during the Boadicea Conference at the Crowne Plaza Resort, near Colchester, Essex. Brian, a vet from Wickham […]
Talk your way to the top
Members of Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club are using their public speaking experience to gain top jobs. And Toastmasters from the UK and Northern Ireland will be taking tips from Boadicea, that queen of communication skills, when they converge on north Essex for the Boadicea Conference from 8th – 10th November. See the full article in […]
When doing nothing pays dividends
At the Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club, doing nothing can be the best course of action. Electrifying member Keith Herod explained how he’d started off spending a few minutes a day as a child doing nothing, and by the time he was very grown-up, his nothingness had extended to a few hours a day, and he […]