At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about an hour. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice:

The Tools You Use.

Upon joining a Toastmasters club, each new member receives a variety of manuals and resources on speaking. Members also have access to other books as well as audio and video cassettes on speaking and leading. They also receive the award-winning The Toastmaster, a monthly magazine that offers the latest insights on speaking and leadership techniques.

Toastmasters and Leadership.

Leadership cannot be learned in a day. It takes practice. In Toastmasters members build leadership skills by organizing and conducting meetings and motivating others to help them. Club leadership roles and a leadership development program also offer opportunities to learn and practice. Just as Toastmasters members learn to speak simply by speaking, they learn leadership by leading.

Company Benefits.

A company's success also depends on communication. Employees face an endless exchange of ideas, messages, and information as they deal with one another and with customers day after day. How well they communicate can determine whether a company quickly grows into an industry leader or joins thousands of other businesses mired in mediocrity.

Toastmasters provides the tools that enable employees to become effective communicators and leaders all at a very low cost. Toastmasters training helps employees:

give better sales presentations
hone their management skills
work better with fellow employees
effectively develop and present ideas
offer constructive criticism
accept criticism more objectively

Toastmasters produces results. Around the world more than three million men and women of all ages and occupations have benefited from Toastmasters training, and more than one thousand corporations, community groups, universities, associations, and government agencies now use Toastmasters training.

Toastmasters Meeting

Community Benefits.

Toastmasters has helped many members in their community service activities. Using the speaking and leadership skills developed in Toastmasters, people have become more active in business, churches, and service and charity organizations. Toastmasters members are able to organize activities, conduct meetings, and speak in public as their organization's representative. Some even become active in local, state or national government.

Become a Member!

Are you looking for a good place to improve your speaking skills in front of a friendly supportive audience? Your local Toastmasters club may be just the place for you. Visit Toastmasters International to find a club near you.

http://www.toastmasters.org/

See Bill at Toastmasters Region IV Conference http://regioniv.net/educational2005.htm

Note to Toastmasters: Invite Bill to speak at your next conference. There is never any charge for Toastmasters.

Would you like to be more successful in your communication?

Sign up below to have Communication Talk news letter emailed to you every other week and receive a free copy of the amazing ebooks Inside The Minds of Winners by Charles Burke and As A Man Thinketh by James Allen ($40 value).

Email addresses are never give out to anyone and you can unsubscribe at any time.