Toastmasters

Want to make an outstanding impression on your next presentation?
Harborview Toastmasters can help!
At Toastmasters, you will learn how to conduct better meetings, to think quickly and clearly on your feet; and to get ahead of your competition.

Meeting Information:
Thursdays
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Washington Center - Lake Avenue & 3rd Street

How Toastmasters Works
Members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. Each meeting provides attendees an opportunity for participation. Specifically members learn how to:

• Conduct meetings
• Give impromptu speeches
• Present prepared speeches
• Take and give constructive evaluation. Every prepared speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out speech strengths and offers suggestions for improvement
• Look professional in front of an audience
• Overcome stage freight
• Speak in front of a group without using filler words, such as "um" or "ah"

The Tools You Use
Upon joining a Toastmasters club, each new member receives a variety of manuals and resources that contain information about how to speak more effectively. Participants 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 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 depends the communication skills of its employees.
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 provide the tools that enable employees to become effective communicators and leaders all at a very low cost. Toastmasters training help employees:

• Give better sales presentations
• Hone their management skills
• Work better with fellow employees
• Effectively develop and present ideas
• Offer constructive criticism
• Accept criticism more objectively