Testimonials

Harvey Mackay
Best-selling Author of "How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive"

" I've never met anyone who didn't think Toastmasters was super valuable to their career. We gain self esteem, self confidence, assertiveness. This makes us better salespeople, better managers, better leaders....."

Les Brown
Author of "Live Your Dreams"

"If you want your dreams to come true you must have confidence in yourself and your abilities. Make your dreams a reality. Join a Toastmasters Club."

Captain James A. Lovell
Former United States Astronaut

"I found Toastmasters an excellent means of improving my speaking ability..... I feel my membership in Toastmasters International was very important in my later success....."

Paul Orifice
Chairman of the Board - Dow Chemical Company

"The best ideas aren't worth anything if you don't know how to communicate. The Toastmasters Club I joined did a tremendous thing for me - it made me to loosen up and taught me how to speak in public."

Tom Peters
Co-author of
"In Search of Excellence"
and
"A Passion for Excellence"
This is an excerpt from Tom Peters book
"The Pursuit of WOW", © 1994.

Join Toastmasters. Oral communication skills count. Enormously. A lot of managers aren't bad public speaking. But "aren't bad" ain't good enough, not if you're wise -- and especially these days, when jawing with the same old gang from year to year is becoming rare. Height and hair color may be in the genes. Public speaking isn't. It's a skill that can be studied, polished, more or less perfected. (Look at Bill Clinton, who went from putting the nation to sleep at the 1988 Democratic Convention to winning bipartisan kudos for his forceful 1993 inaugural address.) You can not only get good at it, you can get damn good at it. And it makes a heck of a difference.....

.....One (good) answer to the public speaking problem / opportunity is Toastmasters. They do a fabulous job of helping people shape up their communication skills. If you've got any questions about your speaking ability (and if you don't, you've probably got a problem), think about joining Toastmasters.

Please don't just take our word for it, come to a meeting as our guest!

Want to find out more? Please come to a meeting as our guest, or contact us for more information. Our site will give you a good overview of our club, and Toastmasters. We also have a number of links to other sites that provide information about other clubs and Toastmasters in general. If you live or work in the area, we hope to see you at one of our meetings.

© Copyright 2003. Speak for Success York-Simcoe Toastmasters and Toastmasters International - All rights reserved.
The names "Toastmasters International", "Toastmasters" and the Toastmasters emblem are trademarks protected in the United States, Canada and other countries where Toastmaster clubs exist.
Unauthorized use is prohibited. Contact: Webmaster