Prosperous Project Management: Close, but no cigar

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Close, but no cigar

I came in 3rd last night at the District 53 Area B2 Humorous contest. Congratulations to the winner and 2nd place winner.

Will post the video clip shortly.

My speech is much improved since I won at the club contest on 8/5/2008 thanks to feedback from District 53 Toastmasters and my fellow speakers at Champions EDGE.

Although it is painful to be in 3rd place, I am glad I competed, and will do so again. I have learned more about humor and this contest forced me to work on my speech and stories. I have recorded my "lessons learned" from this contest which will help me prepare for the Spring 2009 contest season.

Now that I am out of the running for this Fall contest season, I can focus more energy on preparing for the upcoming educational session at the District 53 Fall Conference on Oct 11, where I am presenting "Panic to Power".

Also working on a new CD product "Give a better speech".

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Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.