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reaches that age.” Now that you have built up
momentum, it is time to unveil your speech

title. Speech titles are important and require
thought. Make them creative but not too
crazy. End with the speaker’s name.

“Our next speaker believes everyone can
train to run a marathon after the age of 60.
She plans to begin her training as soon as
she reaches that age. With her speech titled,
Chasing Your Dreams, please join me in

welcoming Distinguished Toastmaster Jane
Doe.
Read it out loud before you pass it along

to the Toastmaster. Make sure it has the tone speech where the audience participates in
and information you want your audience to giving feedback? Are there handouts?
hear. Practice the introduction several times
with vocal variety, pauses, and tone that
When you are the Toastmaster sets the stage for the speaker. Print it out in

It is your job to read the introduction, not a large font to make it easy to read.
to write it. In a perfect world, the speaker has
provided you with their introduction either

in your club meeting portal or via email a A well-written introduction sets a
couple days before the meeting.. positive tone for your speech. Poorly written
Don’t wait until the last minute to read introductions inspire the audience to look
the introduction. It may need grammatical at the agenda and see who is coming up
corrections. You may need to confirm next. You work hard to write and deliver an

pronunciations with the speaker. Ask if there entertaining speech. Work just as hard on
are any special considerations. Will there your introduction. And remember, it’s all
be a Round Robin Evaluation following the about YOU!

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