Quora Answer: How Long Does It Take for a Person to become a Better Public Speaker?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “How long does it take for a person to become a better public speaker?” 

If you are in Toastmasters, all it takes is one speech, and one good evaluation.  The path to becoming a great public speaker is one of incremental growth and improvement.  You need to give speeches, you need to be mentored, and you need to be evaluated.  In every speech evaluation, simply take one point and improve your speaking style and speech structure.  If you improve one point every single time you speak, you are better than your last speech.  That is all you actually need.