From the combined business experience of Denise and Christopher Magyar

If you're in business, you need to make convincing appeals for a cause. When you're trying to convince someone of something, you need to organize your thoughts in order to satisfy the listener's need to understand you. In other words: you need to be able to master table topics in many different situations. Although created at the very moment of their presentation, impromptu speeches do need to be organized. In order to make an impact, you need to be able to give your mini-speeches a beginning, body and conclusion.

Did you feel overwhelmed by this at times? Don?t worry: Here is the tool to help! It was first presented by Denise Magyar at Toastmasters in 1996 for one of her speech projects from the Basic Manual, then as part of an educational with Christopher at the Area Conference in Switzerland in November 1996. She also presented it at a meeting of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) where Carol Adeney heard it (and that's why she started coming to Toastmasters!). Then Denise presented it as an educational at the Area Contest in (1998) at the Amerika Haus in Munich, where Paul Königer heard it and translated it into German. And it was Carol Adeney who recorded it and made it available for all current and would-be Toastmasters.