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Public speaking! Love it or loathe it?

Business people in Suffolk are a confident bunch! When Ipswich Electrifiers Speakers’ Club ran a survey from our stand at the recent Anglia Business Exhibition (ABE), we found that over 70% of respondents loved speaking in public. And although a quarter of those surveyed considered going to the dentist less scary than speaking in public, […]

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What’s stopping you improving your speaking skills?

Ipswich Electrifiers are running a survey at the Anglia Business Exhibition on 7th September 2021 at Trinity Park, Ipswich, into what people think about speaking in public. Is it something you enjoy, or is it time to address the elephant in the room and brush up on body language, learn how to listen, and communicate […]

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Top tips for online presentations

What’s the key to effective presentations online? Ipswich Electrifiers has launched a series of helpful videos.

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My advice to Harold Wilson et al

The oldest member of Ipswich Electrifiers, Norman Sanders, 90, has just published his latest book. Appropriately named My Computing Life, this riveting read reveals Norman’s part in the international development of computers, and the advice he dispensed to world leaders along the way.

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7 reasons why Toastmasters contests are for everyone.

Contests are not just for the competitive member, read about the many reasons for every member to get involved.

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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 […]

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Finding Your Voice with Ipswich Electrifiers

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]