Calling all Toastmasters

[Brian Shanahan]

As a fairly active member of TI, I often wonder how many fellow speakers are out there. I am active in the Crusaders club in Cork (club no. 71-5482), filling the posts of President and Vice President-Education, and before that the Thomond club in Limerick (no. 71-7729). I have been granted the Competent Communicator award and am still active, on the way to getting my Adv Comm Bronze award.

If you are wondering what I'm blathering on about and would like to find out, here's the homepage of Toastmasters International.

 

[Ajidica]

Thats nice. Public Speaking is a very useful skill. Especialy being able to BS answers to questions you don't know the answer to.
That said, I don't see the discussion here.

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Thats nice. Public Speaking is a very useful skill. Especialy being able to BS answers to questions you don't know the answer to.
That said, I don't see the discussion here.

If you're talking about discussion in the thread, it's more of an enquiry thread.
If you're talking about discussion in TI, they don't really do it. There is usually some in topics but the main focus speaking wise is the set speeches.

 

[Skwink]

Oh. I thought this would be a thread about people who make good toast.

 

[classical_hero]

Same here. But it should be pretty simple to make toast, but to make a toast does require nerves of steel.

 

[MobBoss]

As a fairly active member of TI, I often wonder how many fellow speakers are out there. I am active in the Crusaders club in Cork (club no. 71-5482), filling the posts of President and Vice President-Education, and before that the Thomond club in Limerick (no. 71-7729). I have been granted the Competent Communicator award and am still active, on the way to getting my Adv Comm Bronze award.

If you are wondering what I'm blathering on about and would like to find out, here's the homepage of Toastmasters International.

You mean there is an actual club for doing what we do here in the OT?

Wow.

 

[BCLG100]

I've been to some toastmasters meetings, the problem i find is that the public speaking they do there is fairly contrived. I appreciate the method of feedback is not to put people off so it's compliment, improvement, compliment basically but if i delivered a rubbish speech i'd prefer to know it and not simply have my ego massaged. The table topics are a good bit of fun if not sometimes verging on the ridiculous in terms of things you would have to speak aloud about.

The final issue with toastmasters is that you do meet quite a lot of mentals there who seem to be drawn in by the happy clappy nature of it all! I did enjoy, mostly the meetings i attended though and there were varying abilities of people giving speeches which made it more interesting what would be more interesting would be if they gave speeches on subjects on things I would actually be interested about, for instance i listened to one speech about a space shuttle crash which isn't really my sort of 'thing' but still interesting.