Your success in business is based on how effective you are. Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate, and motivate.

As your improved communication skills become obvious within the workplace, increased visibility, recognition and promotion will follow.

Self-paced programs allow you to progress as rapidly or gradually as your needs dictate.

The Toastmasters program exposes each participant to a wide range of communication experiences.

Toastmasters means effective communication. In this information age, you're probably more at ease with communication by electronic mail and telephones then you are face to face. Speaking to groups, large or small, may intimidate or even frighten you. In Toastmasters, you'll lean how to successfully formulate, express, and sell your idea and yourself.

At a Toastmasters' meeting, everyone talks; that's how you improve! You'll build "quick-thinking" skills as you give one-to-two-minute impromptu speeches on general subjects. You'll introduce speakers, give prepared speeches, conduct meetings, and perform other roles, assuring you a wide variety of communication experiences.

Constructive feed back, or evaluation is the heart of the Toastmasters program. Whenever you give a prepared speech an evaluator will point out the presentation's strengths and offer suggestions for improving your next speech. In the beginning, our club members will applaud your effort, but later we'll applaud your skill.

You can't learn to be a leader in one day; it takes practice. In Toastmasters, you'll build leadership skills when you organize and conduct meetings and motive others to help you. You can earn leadership awards by working on a leadership project related to your personal or professional life or by serving as a club leader.

You've probably noticed that many of the people you admire in your profession are great speakers and leaders. The skills you learn in Toastmasters will take you to their level and beyond. Isn't it time for you to speak up ?