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Why should you
join us? The benefits of being a member of The Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club
are numerous. Through regular participation in our club, you will :
Enhance your
public speaking skills
- Improve your everyday
communication skills and overall self-confidence.
- Make a new circle of friends
and professional contacts. A lot of people have made life time friends
in our club! Many people have found employment and contract
opportunities from the professional contacts they've made as a member of
the Bayan Baru Toastmasters.
- Develop leadership skills. we
offer a path to leadership certification with ample opportunity to serve
in leadership roles.
- Be encouraged by associating
with people who share the common goal of improving themselves.
- Improve your professional
career through all of the above
Toastmasters Benefits
Everyone needs
Toastmasters
Our face-to-face,
experiential learning program benefits skilled professionals and beginning
speakers alike. So, whether you're speaking to your staff, your co-workers,
or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better.
At Toastmasters
you'll learn to relax, plan, and present a terrific speech, whether you have
10 days to prepare - or just 10 seconds. You'll learn and practice in a
friendly, comfortable environment with people who are there for the same
reason you are - to become better communicators.
Everybody
talks
At a Toastmasters meeting everybody
talks - that's why you're there!
You'll build "quick
thinking" skills as you present a one-to two-minute impromptu speech
during Table Topics.
At a later meeting you may be the one
asking the Table Topics questions!
Soon after, you'll introduce
speakers, give prepared speeches, conduct the meeting, and perform many other
roles.
How
do I improve?
You'll improve just by speaking
regularly.
But the key to the Toastmasters
learn-by-doing program is constructive evaluation. An assigned evaluator will
point out your presentation's strengths and offer suggestions for improving
your next speech.
At first you'll be recognized for
your effort; later you'll be recognized for your skills.
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
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
Toastmasters produce results. Around
the world more than three million men and women of all ages and occupations
have benefited from Toastmaters training, and more than one thousand
corporation, 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,
churches, and service and charity organizations.
Toastmasters members are able to
organize activities, conduct meetings, and speak in public as their
organizations' representative. Some even become active in local, state or
national government.
Mentorship
Programme
In order to help new members become
active in the Club quickly, Hong Kong
Toastmasters Club has adopted a Mentorship Programme. New members are
assigned a mentor when they join the club. The mentor is an experienced
member of the Club who acts as an advisor, a coach and a confidant to his or
her mentee. We believe that new members will definitely settle in faster and
enjoy their membership in more if they receive the support of the experienced
members.
Essentially
the mentor's role is to:
1. offer knowledge,
insight, perspective, or wisdom useful to the mentee in settling in as a new
member and in starting an exciting journey of making speeches in front of
people;
2. sit with new
members and brief them about the Club's customs and procedures;
3. explain how
the new members can sign up for speeches, and offer assistance in preparing
speeches, especially with the Ice Breaker speech --- the FIRST speech!
4. make members
aware of the available resources, provide positive feedback to their speeches
before and afterwards;
5. explain what
responsibilities they have to the Club and help with assignments given to
them;
6. explain the
duties of the officers and encourage new members to take up official duties
in the Club.
How
Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club Can Benefit You ?
1) Enhance your
communication skills :
You'll improve
just by speaking regularly (twice a month if you progress rapidly). Learn
communications skills in a friendly and supportive environment. But the key
to the Toastmasters learn-by-doing program is constructive evaluation. An
assigned evaluator will point out your presentation's strengths and offer
suggestions for improving your next speech.
2) Time-tested
program :
Established in
1924, Toastmasters International uses time-tested programs that are continually
updated to meet participants needs.
Self-paced programs allow you to
progress as rapidly or gradually as your needs dictate.
A variety of
assigned speeches help the participant develop competency in areas such as organization,
voice inflection and persuasiveness.
3) Build quick
thinking skills :
You'll build
"quick thinking" skills as you present a one-to two-minute
impromptu speech during Table Topics Session.
4) Leadership
Training :
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.
5) Mentorship
Programme :
In order to help
new members become active in the Club quickly, Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club
has adopted a Mentorship Programme. New members are assigned a mentor when
they join the club. The mentor is an experienced member of the Club who acts
as an advisor, a coach and a confidant to his or her mentee. We believe that
new members will definitely settle in faster and enjoy their membership in
more if they receive the support of the experienced members.
6) Expand Your
Horizons :
Meet a wide
variety of people from various profession , make new friends.
Take action now !
Come to join our regular club meeting as guest.
Do
evaluation about the program yourself.
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