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Tuesday 12th August
Club Meeting

Tuesday 26th August
Club Meeting

September Meetings

Tuesday 9th September
Club Meeting

Tuesday 23rd September
Club Meeting

Youth Leadership Program

Every young person has the potential to become a good communicator and leader, but this potential needs to be developed.

The Youth Leadership Program is a terrific way to help younger members of society build their communication and leadership skills so they may become tomorrow's leaders in business, industry and the community.

How does it work? The program is conducted by a coordinator for a group of young people under the age of eighteen, in four to eight sessions of one to two hours each. Ideally, there should be 15 to 20 participants; the minimum number is five. What do participants learn? Over the course of these sessions, participants learn about effective public speaking and have the opportunity to practice speaking themselves.

In addition they learn to:

• Overcome the nervousness everyone feels when asked to speak before an audience.
• Organise and present their ideas logically and convincingly.
• Listen carefully to others' ideas.
• Offer advice that will help others improve their speaking and leadership skills.
• Participate in - and even lead - group discussion or meetings.

This is a very effective way for a teenager to acquire the skills of speaking, listening, thinking, and evaluating -- all skills that are extremely important in today's world.

Participants increase their self-confidence as they learn.

The sessions of the Youth Leadership Program covers a variety of topics which play a part in good public speaking.

• Gestures
• Vocal Variety
• Using Visual Aids
• Speech Organisation
• Taking the Terror Out of a Talk
• Effective Speech Evaluation
• Constructing a Speech
• Relating to Your Audience

To find out more information about the Youth Leadership Program please click here.

Club News

New commitee elected for 2008/09

Newbury Speaker's 10s Night celebration

Philip Gladwell and Tony Henderson-Newport present at the District 71 Conference in Killarney

Philip Brooks gains second place in the Division Evaluation Contest in Aberdeen

Philip Brooks and Tony Henderson-Newport compete at the Area 22 competition in Bristol

Newbury Speakers to present at the District Conference

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