Thanks for the comment.

It still amazes me how this keeps on happening. Personally, I find it a simple lack of rehersal. Just running through a speech once or twice will so quickly show these errors.

It also baffles me how a speaker at a division or district contest can still go overtime :-)

Craig

Good post. I’ve seen this happen too. Or the speaker will spend too long on the first point and then race to fit in another two in the final minute.

I agree you cannot fit everything in. I also think that there are some speakers who don’t time themselves. I saw a guy give a great speech at the International Speech contest last year – Division Level. He got disqualified because he added more ideas to the speech and failed to time it.

It baffles me sometimes that even in competition people don’t bother timing and just try to use their Spidey Sense.

Cheers,

Jason

That is a little bizarre, isn’t it! I wrote the article after a Toastmasters meeting, where after about 7 minutes, the speaker said “and my second point”. This was for a 5-7 minute speech.

Strange how we said such similar things. Maybe if enough people say it, people will start to listen…

Craig

There’s never enough time to share everything we know, and the audience would drop dead from brain overload if we tried!