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done better or differently to give the speech Director, a year-and-a-
more impact and more of a chance of winning. half so far on the Trio
Maybe by implementing your recommendations with—I hope—another
for other speeches you can improve your own year-and-a-half left... I
speeches. would say this has been
a fruitful result of my
See Toastmasters Outside Your Club exposure to multiple clubs as a speech contestant.
During my second run through the humorous
speech contest season in 2010, I rehearsed my You Know You Want To
contest speech in front of about ten different Now that you know the benefits you can enjoy
clubs in the month between the area and division by competing in a speech contest, what’s holding
contests. This got me acquainted with the you back from signing up? You have at least one
members of ten different clubs outside my own month to prepare for your club or area contest
and showed me different ways of running club by speaking and evaluating peeches. You have
meetings I could then bring home to my club at least one month to decide a topic and craft a
and try out in our meetings. I also made myself speech for your contest. Will you now commit
visible to other clubs in ways I could not during to competing? You know you want to.
District 7 events such as TLI. This exposure
gave me a sense for how I could serve the clubs
in District 7 as a district leader. Two years as an
Area Governor, three as a Division Governor/
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