I was a member of Toastmasters for 4-years. I became a Competent Toastmaster in under a year after completing the first 10 speech projects (and went on to obtain my Competent Leader certificate a year after that). One of the speech projects is called Get to the Point. The goal is to prepare a 5-7 minute speech that informs, entertains and has one specific point you're trying to convey. And this is the problem with the Occupy Wall Street movement and other similar movements around the … [Read more...]