Description
Good communicators tend to be good leaders, and chances are your company needs employees with leadership potential. This is where a Toastmasters club can help.
WHERE LEADERS
ARE MADE
CLEAR
COMMUNICATION
Your organization needs it.
TOASTMASTERS
Your company’s success depends in large part on how well your
employees communicate—with each other as well as with
customers. The e?ects of a poorly run meeting or an ine?ective
sales presentation are lasting and expensive. How well do your
employees convey their expertise to potential customers? Can
they lead meetings e?ciently? Can they o?er constructive feed-
back and diplomatically deal with a wide range of people?
Good communicators tend to be good leaders, and chances are
your company needs employees with leadership potential. This
is where a Toastmasters club can help. Think of it as an on-site
training class for busy professionals where employees meet once
a week to practice communication in a supportive setting with
co-workers. The cost is minimal, and the bene?ts are long-lasting.
When employees attend seminars, they quickly forget what they
learned; when they regularly attend Toastmasters meetings, they
learn skills that stay with them for a lifetime.
For many people, public speaking causes anxiety and fear. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped
millions of men and women gain competence and become more con?dent in front of an audience. Toastmas-
ters’ learn-by-doing program helps employees become better speakers and leaders.
Toastmasters teaches your employees skills to be better communicators and leaders:
Give e?ective sales presentations
Assume management roles
Build teams
Give and receive constructive feedback
E?ectively present ideas
Conduct e?ective meetings
Manage time
Actively listen
How it Works
A typical Toastmasters club consists of 20 people who meet once a week for about an hour. Each meeting gives
everyone an opportunity to practice:
Impromptu speeches: Members have the opportunity to give one- to two-minute impromptu speeches
about announced topics.
Prepared speeches: Three or more members give speeches based on projects from Toastmasters manuals.
Speeches cover topics such as speech organization, humor, voice, language, gestures and persuasion.
Constructive evaluations: Every speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out speech strengths and
suggestions for improvement. Peer evaluation is essential to the success of the Toastmasters program. It
gives members the con?dence to progress one step at a time toward becoming the speakers and leaders
they want to be.
STEFAN GMÜR
Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
“The bene?ts of con?dent and well-structured speakers
representing our business, both internally and externally,
are undeniable, and Toastmasters is an excellent way to
allow employees to develop these skills.” ”
ABDULRAHMAN JAWAHERY
President, Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company
“The Toastmasters programs o?er the best value
available in the market to shape the personalities of our
employees, help them develop their presentation and
leadership skills and uncover their talents. Our company
has uncovered talents in our employees that we have
nurtured and utilized—talents that would have remained
hidden and wasted [if not for Toastmasters]. So it’s a
bene?t for both the employee and the organization.”
LINDA LINGLE
Former governor of Hawaii
“Toastmasters is the best and least expensive personal
improvement class you can go to. Anybody who begins
and sticks with it for any length of time ends up a better
speaker. As a result, they build con?dence and are able to
do their jobs better.”
3M
AAA
Adobe Systems
Allstate
American Express
Apple Computer, Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Bank of New York Mellon
Bayer
BlueCross BlueShield
BMW
Caterpillar
Chevron
Cisco
ConocoPhillips
Dell
Deloitte
Dow
EnCana
Ericsson, Inc.
Ernst & Young
ExxonMobil
Facebook
Fluor
Frito-Lay
Geico
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Mills
Google
HDR Inc.
Hewlett-Packard
Honda
IBM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
Kodak
KPMG
Lockheed Martin
Macy’s
McGraw-Hill
McKesson
Microsoft
Motorola
Nationwide Insurance
Nissan
Nokia Siemens Networks
Northrop Grumman
Pepsico
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Questar Corporation
Raytheon Company
Royal Bank of Canada
Safeco
Safeway, Inc.
Shell
SNC- Lavalin ProFac
Sony
Sprint
Staples
Starbucks
State Farm
TELUS
The Boeing Company
The Coca-Cola Company
Toyota
Verizon
Walmart
Walt Disney
Warner Brothers
Wells Fargo
Westinghouse
Weyerhaeuser
Xerox
Yahoo!
What’s in It for
Your Organization?
When employees are competent and con?dent
communicators, everyone wins: They advance their skills,
and your company retains skilled employees. Your business
needs leaders who can persuade others to do what needs to
be done. Good leaders are good communicators. Therefore,
employees need to communicate and work as a team.
Toastmasters members do both. They learn to vary their
approach to suit the needs of di?erent people, whether
giving a speech or presenting to the committee for a
fundraiser. Con?dent, charismatic leaders are not born with
these characteristics. In Toastmasters, members gain the
practice to shape their words and their careers.
Resources: When your employees join Toastmasters, each
receives a variety of manuals and resources about how to give
presentations. They also receive a monthly magazine that o?ers
the latest insights into speaking and leadership techniques.
Recognition: People love recognition, and Toastmasters
provides it. At ?rst members are applauded for their e?ort;
later they are applauded for their skill. After presenting
the ?rst 10 speeches, a member is recognized and given a
certi?cate suitable for display in the o?ce or at home. As
they progress in the program, members continue to be
recognized for their accomplishments.
It Really Works
Today, organizations around the globe sponsor in-house
Toastmasters clubs to help their employees strengthen their
communication and leadership skills.
These companies see the value in Toastmasters
What Former
Toastmasters Say
TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL
P.O. Box 9052 • Mission Viejo, CA 92690 • USA
Phone: 949-858-8255 • Fax: 949-858-1207
www.toastmasters.org
Item 103
Take the First Step
Forming a Toastmasters club within
your organization is easy and
inexpensive. To get started visit
www.toastmasters.org/bringti
doc_937216350.pdf
Good communicators tend to be good leaders, and chances are your company needs employees with leadership potential. This is where a Toastmasters club can help.
WHERE LEADERS
ARE MADE
CLEAR
COMMUNICATION
Your organization needs it.
TOASTMASTERS
Your company’s success depends in large part on how well your
employees communicate—with each other as well as with
customers. The e?ects of a poorly run meeting or an ine?ective
sales presentation are lasting and expensive. How well do your
employees convey their expertise to potential customers? Can
they lead meetings e?ciently? Can they o?er constructive feed-
back and diplomatically deal with a wide range of people?
Good communicators tend to be good leaders, and chances are
your company needs employees with leadership potential. This
is where a Toastmasters club can help. Think of it as an on-site
training class for busy professionals where employees meet once
a week to practice communication in a supportive setting with
co-workers. The cost is minimal, and the bene?ts are long-lasting.
When employees attend seminars, they quickly forget what they
learned; when they regularly attend Toastmasters meetings, they
learn skills that stay with them for a lifetime.
For many people, public speaking causes anxiety and fear. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped
millions of men and women gain competence and become more con?dent in front of an audience. Toastmas-
ters’ learn-by-doing program helps employees become better speakers and leaders.
Toastmasters teaches your employees skills to be better communicators and leaders:
Give e?ective sales presentations
Assume management roles
Build teams
Give and receive constructive feedback
E?ectively present ideas
Conduct e?ective meetings
Manage time
Actively listen
How it Works
A typical Toastmasters club consists of 20 people who meet once a week for about an hour. Each meeting gives
everyone an opportunity to practice:
Impromptu speeches: Members have the opportunity to give one- to two-minute impromptu speeches
about announced topics.
Prepared speeches: Three or more members give speeches based on projects from Toastmasters manuals.
Speeches cover topics such as speech organization, humor, voice, language, gestures and persuasion.
Constructive evaluations: Every speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out speech strengths and
suggestions for improvement. Peer evaluation is essential to the success of the Toastmasters program. It
gives members the con?dence to progress one step at a time toward becoming the speakers and leaders
they want to be.
STEFAN GMÜR
Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
“The bene?ts of con?dent and well-structured speakers
representing our business, both internally and externally,
are undeniable, and Toastmasters is an excellent way to
allow employees to develop these skills.” ”
ABDULRAHMAN JAWAHERY
President, Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company
“The Toastmasters programs o?er the best value
available in the market to shape the personalities of our
employees, help them develop their presentation and
leadership skills and uncover their talents. Our company
has uncovered talents in our employees that we have
nurtured and utilized—talents that would have remained
hidden and wasted [if not for Toastmasters]. So it’s a
bene?t for both the employee and the organization.”
LINDA LINGLE
Former governor of Hawaii
“Toastmasters is the best and least expensive personal
improvement class you can go to. Anybody who begins
and sticks with it for any length of time ends up a better
speaker. As a result, they build con?dence and are able to
do their jobs better.”
3M
AAA
Adobe Systems
Allstate
American Express
Apple Computer, Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Bank of New York Mellon
Bayer
BlueCross BlueShield
BMW
Caterpillar
Chevron
Cisco
ConocoPhillips
Dell
Deloitte
Dow
EnCana
Ericsson, Inc.
Ernst & Young
ExxonMobil
Fluor
Frito-Lay
Geico
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Mills
HDR Inc.
Hewlett-Packard
Honda
IBM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
Kodak
KPMG
Lockheed Martin
Macy’s
McGraw-Hill
McKesson
Microsoft
Motorola
Nationwide Insurance
Nissan
Nokia Siemens Networks
Northrop Grumman
Pepsico
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Questar Corporation
Raytheon Company
Royal Bank of Canada
Safeco
Safeway, Inc.
Shell
SNC- Lavalin ProFac
Sony
Sprint
Staples
Starbucks
State Farm
TELUS
The Boeing Company
The Coca-Cola Company
Toyota
Verizon
Walmart
Walt Disney
Warner Brothers
Wells Fargo
Westinghouse
Weyerhaeuser
Xerox
Yahoo!
What’s in It for
Your Organization?
When employees are competent and con?dent
communicators, everyone wins: They advance their skills,
and your company retains skilled employees. Your business
needs leaders who can persuade others to do what needs to
be done. Good leaders are good communicators. Therefore,
employees need to communicate and work as a team.
Toastmasters members do both. They learn to vary their
approach to suit the needs of di?erent people, whether
giving a speech or presenting to the committee for a
fundraiser. Con?dent, charismatic leaders are not born with
these characteristics. In Toastmasters, members gain the
practice to shape their words and their careers.
Resources: When your employees join Toastmasters, each
receives a variety of manuals and resources about how to give
presentations. They also receive a monthly magazine that o?ers
the latest insights into speaking and leadership techniques.
Recognition: People love recognition, and Toastmasters
provides it. At ?rst members are applauded for their e?ort;
later they are applauded for their skill. After presenting
the ?rst 10 speeches, a member is recognized and given a
certi?cate suitable for display in the o?ce or at home. As
they progress in the program, members continue to be
recognized for their accomplishments.
It Really Works
Today, organizations around the globe sponsor in-house
Toastmasters clubs to help their employees strengthen their
communication and leadership skills.
These companies see the value in Toastmasters
What Former
Toastmasters Say
TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL
P.O. Box 9052 • Mission Viejo, CA 92690 • USA
Phone: 949-858-8255 • Fax: 949-858-1207
www.toastmasters.org
Item 103
Take the First Step
Forming a Toastmasters club within
your organization is easy and
inexpensive. To get started visit
www.toastmasters.org/bringti
doc_937216350.pdf