I’ve been a member of Toastmasters International about a year.
It’s an international organization that helps people improve their public speaking.
I joined Toastmasters back at my old job in order to improve my presentation skills. However, I didn’t feel up to the challenge of actually giving any speeches, although I gave a few table topic speeches, which were short speeches on impromptu subjects.
Since joining the new company, I started attending their Toastmasters meetings. The folks in this club are quite different than the other one, where people horsed around quite often. This club has a much more official and seriousness to it, which is neither good or bad.
I made a new year resolution to actually give all 10 requisite speeches to achieve the Competent Toastmaster certification this year.
I’m starting by giving my first speech this coming Thursday, it’s called the ice breaker speech.
I will be posting most of my speeches on my blog if I write them out. Otherwise, I’ll post the summaries.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy the speeches as much as I do delivering them.