Nobody Loses in this Speech Competition
From the March 2009 Toastmasters Magazine
We’ve yet to find eight better reasons for you to compete in your club’s upcoming International speech contest.
- Speaking under pressure and challenging yourself to be even better than you think you could be.
- Sharing a message you truly believe with an audience that needs to hear it.
- Meeting other strong speakers and learning from their styles.
- Refining a speech to make it better every time you deliver it.
- Giving a speech to different audiences, from club up to district.
- Speaking in front of large and unfamiliar audiences.
- Developing and perfecting entirely new speeches if you win at district and then again at region – and doing them in a relatively short period of time.
- Handling defeat gracefully which all of us except one person – the ultimate winner – will have the opportunity to do.