Manual
Speeches
Foundation for puposeful presentation growth

Every speaking opportunity we have in the club can be a valuable learning experience.

The basic and advanced manuals provided by Toastmasters International, offer a foundation for purposeful growth. Each project speech can be consider a building block, selected by you, to be the next cornerstone in your personal growth.

In achieving the ATM Silver, I had fininshed all the advanced manuals. No more manual speeches for me I thought (now I had the perfect excuse for doing non-manual speeches)!

However, evaluators kept reminding me I needed to work on vocal variety.

I picked up the basic manual one day with their comments in mind, opened it up to "vocal variety" and decided I would do that project until my evaluators started focusing on another area for improvement. Following the manual presentations again gave an added purpose to my speaking efforts at the club.

Everytime we prepare a speech, we benefit by having specific objectives to guide our development. The manuals provide us with such guidance based on Toastmasters' sixty plus years experience.

Let's continue to build our abilities on this good foundation and use the manual speeches as cornerstones in the construction of our communication abilities

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