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Whether you are a professional, student, stay-at-home
parent, or retiree, Toastmasters is the best way to improve your
communication skills.
Toastmasters can help you lose the fear of public
speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in
whatever path you choose. You’ll be a better listener. You’ll
easily lead teams and conduct meetings. You’ll comfortably give and
receive constructive evaluation. You already have some or all of these
skills. In Toastmasters, you will enhance them.
Our face-to-face experience learning program benefits
skilled professionals and beginning speakers alike. So, whether you
are speaking to your staff, your co-workers, or your kids,
Toastmasters can help you do it better.
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.
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 receive the award-winning The Toastmaster,
a monthly magazine that offers the latest insights on speaking and
leadership techniques.
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 offer
opportunities to learn and practice. Just as Toastmasters members
learn to speak simply by speaking, they learn leadership by leading.
If you are an employer or employee, you will agree
that 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, and accept criticism more objectively.
Toastmasters produces results. Around the world more
than 3 million men and women of all ages and occupations have
benefited from Toastmasters training, and more than 1,000
corporations, community groups, universities, associations, and
government agencies now use Toastmasters training.
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.
The first Toastmasters club was established on Oct.
22, 1924, in Santa Ana, CA, by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, who conceived and
developed the idea of helping others to speak more effectively.
Today, Toastmasters International’s business and
services are administered by its World Headquarters, located in Rancho
Santa Margarita, CA. It employs no paid promoters or instructors. It
has no salaried staff except the executive director and World
Headquarters staff, who provide services to the clubs and districts.
Ready to visit? We have our own club in the Doral
Area. Airport West Toastmasters Club No. 861-47 meets every Thursday
morning at 7:30 a.m. at Her-Bets Restaurant, 3900 NW 79 Ave. Everybody
is welcome to visit the meetings. For more information, call
305-716-8661.
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