Welcome to our club's website.
Toastmasters International is a communication (Public Speaking) and leadership development organisation with exciting and valuable differences.
Are you looking to become a more confident speaker and leader? Or perhaps even having a shot at becoming World Champion of Public Speaking?
Then, Launceston Toastmasters Club offers a friendly and supportive environment in which to learn and develop these speaking and leadership skills. We like to see all our members exceed their expectations.
- Business and technical presentations,
- After dinner speeches,
- Presenting and receiving awards,
- Chairing business meetings,
- Speaking off the cuff,
- Or just saying a few words to a group of friends on that special occasion.
All these and more are covered in our extensive educational curriculum that has already helped many millions of people around the world exceed their expectations over more than 80 years.
We know that speech and leadership qualities are behavioural, hence one of the strengths of the Toastmasters programme is that we work on these skills over time. This allows you to iron out bad habits that you may not know you have, and adopt superior skills for future presentations. We have an extensive educational programme, and you work at your own pace.
If you are at the stage where you want to practice theories and expand beyond buying self help books, CD s, DVDs or attending conferences, then you should consider visiting and joining Launceston Toastmasters club for our peer evaluations.
Our Launceston Club is a relatively small, enthusiastic and friendly club. We strive to look after our member's communication and leadership needs. We are always developing, as there are always new members coming through the doors.
We are excited, as we have had to move to a new venue due to a gradual growth of the numbers in our club. This provides better conditions to expand our speaking styles.
This is on Level 2 of 39 Paterson Street. Above Bendigo Bank.
Entrance via Paterson St, and up to the top of the stairs. Turn left at the top of the stairs.
The board room of Shepherd and Heap Pty Ltd is on the left hand side of the corridor.
There are more introductory information about our not-for-profit organisation in the side tabs.
We encourage you to browse through the website, get a feel of some of the things we do. Give us a call or email us if you'd like to visit one of our meetings.
Our meeting dates, (as well as Spirit of Devonport TM Club) are under the heading of Club Calendar. We also have a map, showing where our meetings are held.
Come along and exceed your expectations. Damian Chong DTM
President Launceston Toastmasters Club 2008-09
Lt Gov Education & Training 2008-09
Toastmasters will give you the skills and confidence you need to effectively express yourself in any situation.
Whether you are a professional, student, stay-at-home parent or retiree, Toastmasters is the most efficient, enjoyable and affordable way of gaining great communication skills.
By learning to effectively formulate and express your ideas, you open an entirely new world of possibilities. Youll be more persuasive and confident when giving group presentations, and youll also improve your one-on-one dealings with others.
This club is made up of members who have a committed to serve each other. When you think about it, it is only fair.
We strive to get the most out of each meetings. We get to meetings as often as we can.
We prepare our speech assignments as best we can. We deliver our assignments for the other members to listen and evaluate.
The programme works because other members commit to doing the same in return, we help each other exceeding our expectations.
Dont worry! Launceston Toastmasters Club environment is Fun, Friendly and supportive, and the self-paced program allows you to build confidence with each speaking assignment. We encourage mentoring of members, so that they are not left alone.
We also have a dynamic and broad spread of experiences, from District Officers, right through to members just starting out to deliver their first speech. From science/engineering/management background, though to philosophers.
Constructive evaluation is the heart of the Toastmasters programme. Each time you give a prepared speech, an evaluator will point out strengths and suggest improvements.
Just reinforcing the point: Most communication & leadership skills are habits. As oppose to the short courses, the club programme works on improving these speaking and leadership skills over time. Reinforcing the theory into behaviour in every assignment you take on.
Come along and exceed your expectations. Visit one of our clubs with no pressure to join, though we will provide a visitor's welcome pack. We stress the importance, that you make sure that the programme fits your goals at this point of time.
Toastmasters currently has more than 250,000 members in over 92 countries. Our club is just one of the more than 11,000 clubs located around the world. One of 6.5 clubs in Tasmania. (0.5 as we hope to start one in Huon Valley in the future).
GROWTH & EXPANSION:
We have continued to experience healthy growth of a record 16 clubs last financial year in this District: 13 in WA, 3 in VIC, and 1 in Devonport. There are a spread of community, advanced, and corporate clubs.
DHS Vic (5 clubs), Telstra, ANZ, NAB, Australian Post, many more are examples of corporate clubs. Maunsell is the most recent corporate to run a demonstration meeting to form a club in 2008.
For membership meeting information, please see our membership information page.
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