How is Toastmasters more beneficial than other forms of speaking improvement classes?
Courses in public speaking usually involve the students sitting through lectures followed by one or two speaking opportunities. When the speeches are over, you get a grade. Often, you get graded on what you did wrong. This isn’t a way to build reassurance and motivation. You rarely get much of a chance to practice by doing. You get up at the end of the semester, give your speech, and sit down. Toastmasters is constant reinforcement and improvement. You learn by doing, not by sitting there while someone lectures for hours. For-profit courses such as Dale Carnegie can be very good for their participants. They also cost a lot and when they’re over, they’re over. Toastmasters costs much less and can last a lifetime.
