Many Hands Make Light Work
I wrote the title of this post a full week ago and was amused to see that between writing the title and finally writing the post, the exact same phrase was used in the exact same context in which I intended it. What is that context? Planning a Toastmasters Division-level speech contest for two different Divisions as part of a single event. A speech contest is quite an affair in and of itself, but double the contest means double the fun and potentially double the work. Fortunately, I was far from alone in planning this event. Double the contests also means double the pool of potential helpers, and the helpers were amazing! The biggest challenge for me in planning this event was giving up control and letting others do what they were meant to do. If I had tried to do it all, it would have been far too much. (Plus the guidelines of the contest make it so that I wasn't even allowed to "do it all.") By dividing up tasks between a contest chair, ...