Leadership and Communication 201!!!!!

   I am a proud member of Toastmasters International;. I currently Serve as a Division Governor in a Greater Washington DC Area District - District 27!!!

 People often FIRST join Toastmasters to improve themselves as a Communicator - there first motivation to join is to speak better in public.Some people join because they are nearly phobic about speaking in public. Others join because they feel that they will advance professionally or in terms of being involved in social causes if they are viewed as a more able speaker. Still others are already fairly good at giving speeches and communicating to groups of people and desire to continually advance as communicators.

Toastmasters really sees themselves as working with individuals who are committed to consistently progressing and developing as both leader and a communicator Most people are unlikely to speak to large groups of people with any degree or regularity. Toastmasters teaches people how to shape and craft their messages to be most effectively be well-received by those they seek to communicate with. They also seek to have people become supportive of those who join Toastmasters- as every one who joins Toastmasters also has very per5sonal and individual goals they wish to attain as a Toastmaster.

Every Toastmaster begins their odyssey as a member of A Toastmaster club. At first, They give most of their speeches to gain security and an early sense of elan and to receive a nurturing and encouraging speech evaluation from a fellow club member.No one, usually joins Toastmasters to just and solely give speeches at their Toastmaster Club . The idea is to encourage people to use their skills outside the comfortable safe place that their club represents.Today, I will be attending a Speech Contest. These Toastmasters have already competed in and won a club contest. They also have competed in an Area Contest and been judged as the winner of an Area Contest competing against the winners of the other clubs in their area. Today, They will be competing against other members who have won an Area Contest.

 This is Toastmasters 201 in my opinion!!!! They are still within the wider context of Toastmasters but they are learning to be confident and poised in communicating even better and more stylishly with continually and progressively larger numbers of people.