Wolverhampton Speakers Club

Achieve Speaking Confidence

What Do We Do?

Wolverhampton Speakers Club is a mutual self- help organisation - a group of people who come together to help each other gain in confidence and learn a valuable life skill while having some fun. Anyone who comes along to the club and hopes to learn how to be an effective speaker will be delighted with the outcome. That person will be given the opportunity, the support, the knowledge and the feedback in a relaxed friendly environment - which is the most efficient way to become an effective speaker. It does not happen overnight, but it does work.

Our System Works because there is no substitute for experience gained by having a go, gaining feedback and absorbing experience by watching and listening to others.

We use a ten-stage programme that is monitored by our Education Director to ensure that all members have the opportunity to develop to the point where they deliver a 'Masterpiece' speech with confidence. This programme has been proven to work over many years but is totally flexible and means that new members are able to move at a pace they find most suitable.

The programme first breaks down public speaking into its basic skills, which you practice, and then puts them back together one-by-one until you can deliver a 'Masterpice'.

The programme will cover the following skills:

1. Making a start
2. Mean what you say
3. Speech construction
4. Use of gestures
5. Use your voice
6. Vocabulary and word pictures
7. The use of notes
8. Smile please!
9. Audience rapport
10. The Masterpiece

And after that, you can try our Advanced Skills course. You will also have the opportunity to learn the skills involved in chairing a meeting and entering various competitions should you wish to do so.