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"As an active member of Toastmasters I can say that the challenge to overcome public speaking fear is real. "
I know from personal experience. It gets better with experience but you never entirely get rid of it.
The best advice was given me by the person assisting me with my thesis for graduating university. He told me to just assume you're talking to a bunch of idiots who know nothing about whatever it is you're talking about (which in my experience, at least at that level, is more or less correct as you're the one who did the work and you're talking to people who've only touched it on the sidelines, if that, and if you did original research you're indeed one of the few people knowing anything about it at all).
"It always amused me that every year I was asked to list the courses I required, and then would be sent on courses I didn't list! "
At least you were asked, at least you got training...
Worst case of this I've encountered is a company that had a "training program" that included an introductory SQL course for senior DBAs, a beginners' course MS Word for senior secretaries, and a entry level Cobol course for medior Cobol programmers.
Knowing what was taught in these courses was all a requirement to be hired in the first place for those positions (if not more junior ones).
We had a feeling they'd put together the "training program" deliberately to avoid having to send anyone on actual training while allowing them to be correctly claim they had a comprehensive training program (it contained dozens of courses like that, like a public speaking course for sales executives) on recruitment ads and for their ISO2001 certification paperwork (anyone remember that one?).
As an active member of Toastmasters I can say that the challenge to overcome public speaking fear is real. Scott Adams should offer that challenge to Dilbert and his office buddies. The point headed one saying something like “Toastmasters is an option to taking the class.†Alice or the coffee man drinking man responding with “Will I be paid extra for my time at Toastmasters?â€
