The
Southern Crescent Toastmasters Club #600184, Area 11, Division A,
District 14 was chartered on October 15, 2003. Our Club is open
to the public. There are approximately 26 members. Meetings are
held on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday of each month
(see Calendar) at 12:00 PM in the
University Center on the campus of Clayton State University (www.clayton.edu)
in Morrow, GA. Meetings are informative, structured and
entertaining and end at 1:00 PM. We welcome visitors and people
who are interested in the Toastmasters program and seeking more
information.
To
Join Southern Crescent Toastmasters, click here (http://www.toastmasters.org/fupload/media/400-MembershipApp.pdf)
to complete the Membership Application form. You can bring it to
the next club meeting (See Calendar), Fax to (770)
961-3765 or
mail to Southern Crescent Toastmasters, ATTN: Vickie Fennell, 2000 Clayton State Boulevard, Morrow, GA 30260 or call (678)
466-4283. We
accept cash, check, or credit card for the payment of club dues.
How Much Does It Cost?
For new members, it will cost $53 to cover the first six months of
membership. This includes a one-time charge of $20 for the new
member kit, which includes your manuals and other materials
necessary to participate in the educational program.
For
renewing, dual, reinstated and transferring members, it will cost
$33.00 to cover six months of membership. This includes the $1
per month club dues.
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 once a week for about
an hour. 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 as well as audio and video cassettes 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 all at a very low cost.
Toastmasters training helps 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 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,
churches, 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
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