• One of the skills you learn in Toastmasters International speakers clubs is or should be Know Your Audience, as well as how to tell the audience 'what's in it for me'. That is demonstrated by the speech which starts, 'I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him'.
Finally, if all else fails, you learn how to shift tone if you see that people are getting upset. When you go out in the 'real world' outside toastmasters, for example, you should not be insulting the groom or bride and upsetting the audience when honoured with an invitation to give a best man's speech. You don't get through a job interview by saying what you dislike about the company's products and staff and your interviewer's race, religion, politics, clothes and accent. A speaker is a diplomat - if he or she wants to get paid and invited back.
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