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All About Toastmasters How Toastmasters Works 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 twice a month
for about 2 hours. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice:
• Conducting meetings. Meetings usually begin with a short business session, which helps
members learn basic meeting procedures.
• Giving impromptu speeches. Members present one-to two-minute impromptu speeches
on assigned topics.
• Presenting prepared speeches. Three or more members present speeches based on
projects from the Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Program
manuals. Projects cover such topics as speech organization, voice, language, gestures,
and persuasion.
• Offering constructive evaluation. Every prepared speaker is assigned an evaluator who
points out speech strengths and offers suggestions for improvement.
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 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. Toastmasters training helps employees:
• Give better 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.
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, 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.
About Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors elected
by the membership. The first Toastmasters club was established on October 22, 1924, in Santa
Ana, California, by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, who conceived and developed the idea of helping
others to speak more effectively. More clubs were formed, and Toastmasters International was
incorporated under California law on December 19, 1932.
Toastmasters International's business and services are administered by its World Headquarters,
located in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. 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.
 http://www.toastmasters.org/about.asp
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