The more successful the career, the more oft en formal speech making is required. This text is an essenti al self-improvement for the upwardly mobile.

Anyone who has ever attended a Dinner where After Dinner Speeches and Toast have been the order of the day knows very well just what a difference a really good speaker making a first class speech can make.

All too often the After Dinner speaker is inarticulate, in comprehensible and much too long-winded. The Dinners are generally keen to get on with the rest of the evening's entertainment which is usually dancing, but which could be a smoking concert, a display of some sort or a cabaret and, at the best, the speeches become merely a means of filling in the time while the company relaxes and digest its meal.In this book we have included all the aspect of speech-making at After Dinner functions--we explain in detail just how to prepare a speech, how to deliver it, some specimen speeches, some useful quotations and some good After Dinner stories which judically introduce into a speech will bring humour and help to create an atmosphere of hilarity.

The jokes too, should be used sparingly always in context. They should be not dragged in merely for the sake of humourus appeal. To tell a golfing story at the Golf club's Annual dinner will be appreciated, and you will acquire a reputation as a witty speaker; to use the same story at Dinner given for a visiting celebrity will merely label you as being "rather stupid". Make full use of humour label when the subject demands it, but make sure you are using the humour that fits the situation.