Las Juntas Toastmasters ClubWalnut Creek, CA
This page was last updated Tuesday, October 29, 2002
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Benefits of Membership
Toastmasters
WILL help you improve your speaking skills and increase your leadership
ability! Whatever your goals in life, your success depends on your
ability to communicate. Toastmasters
has developed a proven system over the last 74 years to help people
succeed as public speakers and organizational leaders.
People join Toastmasters for a number of reasons.
Some are extremely afraid of public speaking and need to conquer their
nerves. Others are good public
speakers who want to polish their skills and expand their talents.
People stay in Toastmasters for one reason: it is an effective
organization that supports and encourages their development to achieve
excellence in public speaking and leadership.
How
does Toastmasters work? Toastmasters
help by developing your skills one step at a time. The Toastmaster system is an ongoing series of
communication projects that work by building upon previously acquired speaking
skills. The program is layed out
in well prepared manuals that cover the foundations of good speech on to more
advanced concepts such as giving a good sales presentation.
At
a typical Toastmasters' meeting you will have the opportunity to deliver a
prepared speech, lead a section of the meeting, and do a short impromptu talk.
Meetings are held within a mutually supportive atmosphere, and they are always
informative and fun.
You
are welcome to come see what Toastmasters is all about.
Please feel free to visit the Las Juntas Toastmasters as a guest until
you are prepared to join us. |