Three narratives that introduced us to three different part of his life but he bound them at the end by saying how passions change with time and age and with more exposure to reality. I once heard an Icebreaker where a college student spoke about how he used to love playing cricket as a schoolboy, moved to the guitar in high school and is eventually now passionate about working in the finance sector. Ensure that your anecdotes are short and crisp so that you don’t exceed the time limit and that they all introduce different facets of yourself to the audience.įor eg. A simple way to do this is to bind the speech around the basic science of speechwriting – The Undisputed Power of Three Narratives.Īn easy thing would be to pick up an incident from childhood, then one from teenage/early adulthood and one from college or workspace. If this is the type of Icebreaker that you had envisioned let me tell you that you this too can be made interesting. The first type can often get a little boring since it focuses more on the factual information like where the speaker grew up, where they got their education and how they landed up their job, in some cases also about their spouses and children and eventually how they ended up at Toastmasters and what do they look to take from here. The one where the speaker comes forth and presents an interesting episode of their life and how it changed them over time.īoth the types have their pros and cons.

The second type of Icebreaker that I have usually seen is the one which appeals to me the most.

Right from where they are from to their school to the college, work and in some cases about their families and children as well. The first type of Icebreaker is the one where the speaker in literally a span of four to six minutes strives to sketch his/her entire life for the audience.I have often seen two kinds of Icebreaker Speeches.

All you have to do is introduce yourself to the club but it’s only when you begin mulling over it will you realize that it is going to be a tough job to clock in at least 500 words.

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