Workshops are a great option for introducing public speaking and meeting management skills to groups. Our revamped workshop materials are perfect for as few as 6 sessions, or as many as 16. (After that, you would convert the group to a full Speakers League club to have access to more speech types.)

Some charter holders use workshops to recruit for their ongoing clubs. Others just run workshops and never start an ongoing club. It’s up to you!

There's a lot of flexibility in holding workshops around the times of year that work best for you. Some teachers opt to conduct workshops during summer break. Some people do weekend or after-school workshops.

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We suggest two pathways to launching your club.

One pathway provides three step-by-step lesson plans that will give you and your members a gradual, fun, and stress free introduction to the roles at a club meeting, techniques for Impromptus, a plan for preparing their first speech, and a foundation in how to effectively (and constructively) evaluate another member’s speech. Under this plan the first full, standard meeting is held at the 4th session.

The other pathway is to start with a full meeting. To do this, you will provide handbooks to members at least two weeks prior to the first meeting, have members review the meeting highlight video and protocol video, and pre-assign meeting roles, including speeches.

There are now two separate, printable Member Handbooks, one for Levels I-II and a brand new one for Levels III and IV.

• Updated speeches and speech descriptions.
• Images featuring older children.
• Information on Club Mentor status.

The Sergeant at Arms title has been replaced by "Club Manager" and you have the option to acknowledge current and past officer on name cards.

New training videos go up periodically. Right now there are ones on Effective Evaluations, Tips for the Lectern, Professionalism, Club Etiquette and Protocol, plus speech examples. More training videos are in the works.

We also have quizzes for some of these videos.

We now have a Speakers League Annual Meet (SLAM) conference, held on the first weekend in June, to which clubs around the world are invited. See more here.

We've consolidated the Timekeeper form to be single-sided, and the Evaluator form still follows the 4 steps, but provides better guidelines for evaluators.

We've exchanged the yahoo group communication channel to a private Chairpersons Facebook page where you can share ideas and experiences, and get the latest information on headquarters news and beta testing opportunities.

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We have lots of nice little additions to our materials, including: