How to Plan Promote and Conduct Toastmasters Contests

How to Plan, Promote and Conduct Toastmasters Contests

Public speaking is like playing golf. There's always room for improvement and it's a heck of a lot eaiser to play if you have a full range of clubs.

By participating in Toastmasters contests, we're able to add another very special club to our golf bag. You can't buy it in a store, you can't benefit by reading about it in a book, can't even get it from attending your own Toastmasters club evey week. You can only receive this special gift by participating in Toastmasters contests at or beyond the club level.

My hope with this section is to give you incentive to organize a contest at your club, maybe even host an area or division contest, encourage more members to partipate, and to help you to accomplish those tasks in a time-efficient manner.

Contest Scripts, Checklists and Others
Save hours in planning and conduct a more successful and enjoyable speech contest using these documents. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

Intro to Contests and Requirements
New to Toastmasters contests? Here's an introduction of what contests are held at which time of the year and who advances to the next level.

How Can Your Club and Members Benefit?
Use this information to motivate your club members to paricipate.

Goals to Strive for in a Contest
"Strive for Five" and provide an equal platform. These goals and others will help your club, area, division contests to be successful.

Contest Pet Peeves
If you've participated in, volunteered for or hosted enough contests, eventually you'll discover things that drive you crazy. Hopefully, this list will help you to prevent things in contests from causing stress.

Key Players in a Contest
What does a Chief Judge do? What's a Test Speaker? This page describes all of the roles in detail.

Contest Documents
Provided is a checklist for you to make sure you have each document before holding your contest and a link to another web site that has the "non-official" judges forms you'll need. The "official" forms can be acquired through Toastmasters International as part of a contest packet.

Equipment Required for a Contest
Just a quick summary of things you might need when you host a club, area or division contest.

A Message for Area and Division Governors
How involved should you be and how can you assure your contests are successful?

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