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<style>
.showFee {
background-color: #772432;
color: white;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
font-family: Gotham,sans-serif;
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
<h1><u><a id="Top" name="Top"></a>Steps to becoming our Toastmasters club member</u></h1>
<p>To become our club member, you need to pay the fees to Toastmasters International.<br/>
For new members, the maximum fee is <strong>RM 300 for the first 6 months </strong>(RM 200 Member fee + RM 100
One-Time registration fee) and <strong>a renewal fee of RM 200 for the next 6 months </strong>(Optional, if you
would like to continue). However, the fee is prorated according to your starting month until the renewal time on
September 30th or March 30th. Please use the dropdown menu to view your fee according to whichever month you want to
start with.</p>
<p>Check your membership fee here,</p>
<p><strong>USD $7.50 is the amount for a month and $20 is the new member fee.</strong></p>
<p><select id="StartDateList" onChange="convertCurrency()">
<option value="Start Date">Start Date</option>
<option value="Jul 01, 2022">Jul 01, 2022</option>
<option value="Aug 01, 2022">Aug 01, 2022</option>
<option value="Sep 01, 2022">Sep 01, 2022</option>
<option value="Oct 01, 2022">Oct 01, 2022</option>
<option value="Nov 01, 2022">Nov 01, 2022</option>
<option value="Dec 01, 2022">Dec 01, 2022</option>
</select> <!-- For 2023 --> <!-- <select>--> <!-- <option value="Jan 01, 2023">Jul 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Feb 01, 2023">Aug 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Mar 01, 2023">Sep 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Apr 01, 2023">Oct 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="May 01, 2023">Nov 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="June 01, 2023">Dec 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Jul 01, 2023">Jul 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Aug 01, 2023">Aug 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Sep 01, 2023">Sep 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Oct 01, 2023">Oct 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Nov 01, 2023">Nov 01, 2022</option>-->
<!-- <option value="Dec 01, 2023">Dec 01, 2022</option>--> <!-- </select>-->
<select id="EndDateList" onChange="convertCurrency()">
<option value="End Date">End Date</option>
<option value="Mar 31, 2023">Mar 31, 2023</option>
<option value="Sep 30, 2022">Sep 30, 2022</option>
</select></p>
<p class="showFee" id="ShowFee"></p>
<p id="demo">The payment is made to our treasurer via <strong>online banking transfer</strong>. Here are the payment details:</p>
<p><strong>Bank Account Number</strong>: 704 552 4163<br/>
<strong>Bank Name</strong>: CIMB Bank<br/>
<strong>Recipient Name</strong>: MOHD ARIFF DIN BIN M ANUAR<br/>
<strong>Amount</strong>: <strong>RM</strong><strong id="showAmount" >.</strong></p>
<script>
function convertCurrency(){
const appID = ["8f1e953be0eb4754baa9a48324d561f0", "bae7724a80fc49fb8bab07fb2bb12802", "7e9bdfce2ab54df0897964d862f95fe7"];
var startDate = document.getElementById("StartDateList").value;
var endDate = document.getElementById("EndDateList").value;
var convertedMYR;
let amount = " (Use the dropdown above to see the amount in MYR)";
let MYR;
var req_remaining;
// First fetch for App ID
fetch("https://openexchangerates.org/api/usage.json?app_id=" + appID[0])
.then(response => response.json())
.then((data) => {
req_remaining = data.data.usage.requests_remaining;
if (req_remaining === 0){
appID.shift();
}
// Second Fetch for exchange
fetch("https://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json?app_id=" + appID[0])
.then((response) => {
if (response.ok) {
return response.json();
} else {
throw new Error("NETWORK RESPONSE ERROR");
}
})
.then((data) => {
MYR = (Math.round(data.rates.MYR * 100) / 100).toFixed(2);
if (startDate === "Jul 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 42.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $22.50 + $20 = $42.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Aug 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 35);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $15 + $20 = $35" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Sep 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 27.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 + $20 = $27.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Oct 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 65);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $45 + $20 = $65" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Nov 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 57.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $37.50 + $20 = $57.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Dec 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 50);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $30 + $20 = $50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Jan 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 42.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $22.50 + $20 = $42.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Feb 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 35);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $15 + $20 = $35" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "March 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 27.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 + $20 = $27.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount;
} else if (startDate === "Jul 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 87.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 9 months = $67.50" +
"<br>" + "$67.50 + $20 = $87.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount + "<br>" +
"<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
} else if (startDate === "Aug 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 80);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 8 months = $60" +
"<br>" + "$60 + $20 = $80" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount + "<br>" +
"<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
} else if (startDate === "Sep 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
convertedMYR = roundNearest5(MYR * 72.5);
amount = convertedMYR + 10;
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 7 months = $52.50" +
"<br>" + "$52.50 + $20 = $72.50" + "<br>" +
"\nTotal fee in MYR = RM" + amount + "<br>" +
"<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
} else {
document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "";
}
document.getElementById("showAmount").innerHTML = amount;
})
// Show how many requests remaining
console.log("Requests Remaining: " + req_remaining);
console.log("App ID array = " + appID)
})
}
function roundNearest5(num) {
return Math.ceil(num / 5) * 5;
}
// ORIGiNAL
// const xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
// xmlhttp.onload = function() {
// const myObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
// document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myObj.conversion_rates.MYR;
// }
// xmlhttp.open("GET", "https://v6.exchangerate-api.com/v6/48ee70cffca519a635392771/latest/USD");
// xmlhttp.send();
// function calculate() {
// var startDate = document.getElementById("StartDateList").value;
// var endDate = document.getElementById("EndDateList").value;
// let amount = "(Use the dropdown above to see the amount in MYR)";
//
// if (startDate === "Jul 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
// amount = "RM200";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $22.50 + $20 = $42.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Aug 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
// amount = "RM165";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $15 + $20 = $35" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Sep 01, 2022" && endDate === "Sep 30, 2022") {
// amount = "RM135"
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 + $20 = $27.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Oct 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM300";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $45 + $20 = $65" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Nov 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM270";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $37.50 + $20 = $57.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Dec 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM235"
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $30 + $20 = $50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Jan 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM200";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $22.50 + $20 = $42.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Feb 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM165";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $15 + $20 = $35" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "March 01, 2023" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM135";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 + $20 = $27.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount;
// } else if (startDate === "Jul 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM390";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 9 months = $67.50" +
// "<br>" + "$67.50 + $20 = $87.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount + "<br>" +
// "<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
// } else if (startDate === "Aug 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM365";
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 8 months = $60" +
// "<br>" + "$60 + $20 = $80" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount + "<br>" +
// "<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
// } else if (startDate === "Sep 01, 2022" && endDate === "Mar 31, 2023") {
// amount = "RM330"
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "USD $7.50 * 7 months = $52.50" +
// "<br>" + "$52.50 + $20 = $72.50" + "<br>" +
// "\nTotal fee in MYR = " + amount + "<br>" +
// "<b>You can pay above the maximum fee to become a member until March 31st, 2023 renewal. It's worth it!</b>";
// } else {
// document.getElementById("ShowFee").innerHTML = "";
// }
// document.getElementById("showAmount").innerHTML = amount;
// }
</script>
<p>After payment is successful, please <strong>upload the bank-in receipt to the Google Form and fill in the Google Form
using this link, </strong><a href="https://forms.gle/BB4Frp7Li4TcerPQ6" target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;">https://forms.gle/BB4Frp7Li4TcerPQ6</span></a></p>
<p>We will add your membership to Toastmasters International. </p>
<p>Everyone is welcome to join us as a member. We'll be always happy to support you and help you to develop your
communication and leadership skills here in Toastmasters. Still not decided yet? Join our meetings as a guest
<strong>as many times as you wish for</strong> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>free</strong></span>! The club
meeting is held every 1st and 3rd week on Wednesday every month.</p>
<p>For first-timers, we encourage you to join our meetings as a guest for free first before considering becoming a
member to see how Toastmasters works. Have questions? Send us an email at <i>contact-5257608@toastmastersclubs.org </i>or
contact the club president via WhatsApp, <a href="https://wa.me/601128847741" target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;">https://wa.me/601128847741</span></a></p>
<hr/>
<h1><u>Benefits of being a Toastmasters member</u></h1>
<h3><span style="color:#ff0000;">Warning: The benefits are so big that it will change your life 360°</span>
</h3>
<h2>Confidence</h2>
<p>Speaking in Toastmasters provides new challenges and plenty of opportunities to be proud of your accomplishments. The
more you expand your skills and talents, the more confidence you have in yourself!</p>
<p>Self-confidence builds trust in others. People want to listen to someone who is confident in what they have to say
and how they say it.</p>
<h2>Friendship</h2>
<p>Toastmasters is a friendly environment where people are genuinely interested in each other. Toastmasters works
because it’s welcoming, positive and supportive with each and every member playing a role in every other
member’s growth and success.</p>
<p>Join Toastmasters and you’ll find you’ve become friends with people you wouldn’t know otherwise.
You get to know members and they get to know you as you learn to appreciate and encourage the best in everyone you
meet.</p>
<h2>Encouragement</h2>
<p>Every Toastmaster receives heaps of encouragement and the best part is you’re encouraged to be your best self.
Every Toastmaster has inherent talents and a wonderfully unique perspective to share. Toastmasters is all about
encouraging yourself and others to be as awesome as you can be.</p>
<p>As a Toastmaster, you share specific, positive, and constructive feedback and by doing so invest in your fellow
member’s success as much as your own. You celebrate the victory of every member’s accomplishments.</p>
<p>In addition to these great benefits, there are many other awesome skills that'll be gained in Toastmasters
such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Becoming a more effective communicator</li>
<li>Improving your grammar and vocabulary</li>
<li>Exercising time management skills</li>
<li>Being a great listener</li>
<li>Learning to give specific, positive, and helpful feedback</li>
<li>Speaking to inspire</li>
<li>Speaking to entertain</li>
<li>Speaking to inform (without boring!)</li>
<li>Give presentations that don’t suck!</li>
<li>Responding intelligently to impromptu questions</li>
<li>Leading meetings with authority and assurance</li>
<li>Being heard and understood when you speak</li>
<li>Leading by example</li>
</ul>
<h2>Pathways Learning</h2>
<p>Toastmasters members have access to the Pathways learning experience, which is Toastmasters' education
program that allows you to leverage over 300 practical workplace skills, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Interview preparation</li>
<li>Online meeting management</li>
<li>Leadership development</li>
<li>Project management</li>
<li>Conflict resolution</li>
</ul>
<p>Pathways are like your guide when you do speeches in club meetings. Members access the Pathways through Base Camp
which is the online gateway to Pathways. In Base Camp, you can work on projects, track your progress, and
view badges and certificates you’ll earn along the way. Base Camp also features resources to help guide you,
including tutorials, videos, quizzes, interactive activities and more. To know more about Pathways, visit <a
href="https://www.toastmasters.org/pathways-overview" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://www.toastmasters.org/pathways-overview</span></a>
</p>
<p></p>
<h2>Compete in Speech Contests</h2>
<p>Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. Each year, thousands of Toastmasters compete in the Humorous,
Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech contests. Competition begins with club contests, and
winners continue competing through the Area, Division and District levels. Winners of the District level
International Speech Contest proceed to the <a
href="https://www.toastmasters.org/Leadership%20Central/Speech%20Contests/Region%20Quarterfinals"
rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">region quarterfinal</span></a> level.
Following region quarterfinals, winners advance to the semifinals for a chance to take part in the <a
href="https://www.toastmasters.org/events/2020-international-convention/world-championship-of-public-speaking"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;">World Championship of Public Speaking<sup>®</sup></span></a></p>
<p><em>Adapted from <a href="https://liveandlovework.com/2012/10/19/benefits-of-toastmasters/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://liveandlovework.com/2012/10/19/benefits-of-toastmasters/</span></a></em>
</p>
<hr/>
<h2>WANT TO BECOME A BETTER COMMUNICATOR?</h2>
<p>Whether you’re a professional, a student, a stay-at-home parent, or a retiree, Toastmasters is the best way to
improve your communication skills. Toastmasters can help you lose the fear of public speaking and learn skills that
will help you be more successful in your chosen endeavor. You’ll listen better. You’ll more easily lead
teams and conduct meetings. You’ll comfortably give and receive constructive evaluations. You already have
some or all of these skills. In Toastmasters, you will enhance them.</p>
<p>At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to 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 and a half. Each meeting
gives everyone an opportunity to learn and practice the skill of communication.</p>
<h3>Toastmasters learn to conduct meetings.</h3>
<p>Meetings often begin with a short business session which helps members learn the basics of meeting procedures.</p>
<h3>Toastmasters give impromptu speeches.</h3>
<p>Members present 1-2 minute impromptu speeches on assigned topics. This enables the members to have a ‘comeback’
in those sticky situations’ we often find ourselves in our everyday lives.</p>
<h3>Toastmasters present prepared speeches.</h3>
<p>At a meeting, often two to three members will present speeches based on projects from the Toastmasters International
Communication and Leadership Program manuals. The skills learned in these often harrowing experiences, cover topics
such as speech organization, voice, language, gestures, and persuasion.</p>
<p>Evaluation is the foundation that Toastmasters is built on.</p>
<p>Every prepared speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out the speech strengths and offers suggestions for areas
of improvement.</p>
<h2>WHAT WILL IT DO FOR YOU?</h2>
<p>Most success depends on communication. In business, each employee, whether in management, or a regular ‘Joe’,
faces an endless exchange of ideas, messages, and information as they deal with one another and with customers
day-to-day. How well they communicate can determine whether a company quickly grows into an industry leader, or
joins the thousands of businesses mired in mediocrity, or even bankruptcy.</p>
<p>Toastmasters provides the tools that enable us to become effective communicators and leaders, all at a very low
cost.</p>
<h3>Toastmasters training helps everyone:</h3>
<ul>
<li>It helps us give better presentations, even if it is only a request to the boss for a raise.</li>
<li>It helps to hone our management skills.</li>
<li>It helps us to work better with fellow employees. Often listening to what they have to say will help your day
‘at the office’ go a little smoother.
</li>
<li>You may have invented the better mousetrap. Toastmasters will help you effectively develop and present your
ideas.
</li>
<li>Toastmasters offers constructive feedback, to help you make the changes that lead to better communications.</li>
<li>Toastmasters will help you to accept criticism more objectively.</li>
<li>Toastmasters produce 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 to enhance their
communication skills.
</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Adapted from <a href="http://d21toastmasters.org/about/why-join-toastmasters/" target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;">http://d21toastmasters.org/about/why-join-toastmasters/</span></a></em></p>
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<h2 id="here-are-10-ways-the-club-can-propel-your-career">10 ways Toastmasters can propel your career</h2>
<h3>1. Chance to improve the skill most in demand by employers</h3>
<p>Hiring decision-makers consistently list communication as the No. 1 skill they seek in new hires. The candidates who
get jobs and get promoted are confident and are the best communicators. Toastmasters members have endless
opportunities to polish this skill that is so crucial for career advancement.</p>
<p>Members frequently credit Toastmasters with their new jobs and promotions. Others say they've developed the
confidence to take on projects they would not have felt they could handle before Toastmasters. "I am more
confident in my job speaking at all levels," says Lisa Ward, a member of Colville Toastmasters in Colville,
WA.</p>
<h3>2. Opportunity to polish leadership skills</h3>
<p>Communication skills are a huge part of how Toastmasters helps professionals, but they go hand-in-hand with
leadership skills. Since 2011, Toastmasters has emphasized leadership and developed the tagline, "Where leaders
are made."</p>
<p>Toastmasters is known for its well-organized and engaging meetings. They get that way through strong leadership.
Members sharpen and practice leadership skills by running engaging meetings and special events.</p>
<h3>3. Practice thinking on your feet</h3>
<p>The comedian George Jessel once said: "The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public." Most of us have had the terrifying experience of freezing up when asked
to speak unexpectedly. In addition to delivering prepared speeches, Toastmasters members attain experience in
impromptu speaking during a regular meeting component called "Table Topics," in which they speak for 1-2
minutes on a subject for which they've had no advance preparation.</p>
<p>In the workplace, the rewards of learning to speak on your feet are tremendous. You may be called upon to speak to
your boss, the media, customers, and other audiences with little previous notice. Developing your ability to speak
eloquently off the cuff means you're ready to talk about anything and respond quickly to questions instead of
having your mind go blank.</p>
<p>And speaking of questions, can you imagine how practice in thinking and speaking on your feet can benefit you in a
job interview?</p>
<h3>4. Experience in running time-efficient meetings</h3>
<p>You have probably been in meetings that dragged on and on and went way over their allotted time. That doesn't
happen in Toastmasters. Toastmasters clubs meet for a set amount of time -- often an hour -- and are committed to
staying within that timeframe.</p>
<p>"Toastmasters has shown me how to keep a meeting on task," says Colville Toastmasters founder Troy
Anderson, "so that everyone comes away without feeling frustrated from spending a lot of time and yet not
making any headway." Linda Evans, also of the Colville club, says, "I like that the meetings are so
organized and only an hour long."</p>
<h3>5. Even more skills and resume items</h3>
<p>Beyond communication and leadership skills, the Toastmasters program specifically targets listening, critical
thinking, giving feedback, time management, planning and implementation, organization and delegation, facilitation,
mentoring, motivation, and team-building.</p>
<p>Toastmasters members can choose to undertake projects such as mounting publicity and membership campaigns, planning
training programs, organizing special events, and serving as a top officer in a district comprising thousands of
members.</p>
<h3>6. Attention from employers who recognize the value of Toastmasters</h3>
<p>"There are several types of experience that always make me take notice of a candidate," says webinar
specialist Susan Black (Niven). "One is Toastmasters. Why Toastmasters? Because the communication, teamwork,
leadership, and feedback skills that every member in every club learns are all-important in virtually any job. But
probably the most important thing, for me, is the self-confidence that Toastmasters build along the way, and which
affects every aspect of their lives," says Niven, who has served in volunteer leadership positions from the
club level through to the Board of Directors of Toastmasters International.</p>
<p>As evidence of employers that recognize Toastmasters' value, more than 3,000 organizations, including the Walt
Disney Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Apple Computer, sponsor in-house Toastmasters clubs as communication
training for employees.</p>
<h3>7. A way to legitimately characterize employment gaps constructively</h3>
<p>We've always advised job seekers to try to account productively for time between jobs. Sometimes, however,
candidates aren't very convincing in describing vague "consulting" or "project" work. Active
Toastmasters members don't have that problem.</p>
<p>"I had been unemployed for a year and a half at the height of the economic downturn," recalls Linda
Eenigenburg, a metrics analyst at Aon Hewitt, Chicago. During an interview, both hiring managers, Eenigenburg says,
were concerned about this gap and asked her what she had been doing during that time. Without hesitation, she
described her extensive activities in Toastmasters International the past few years. "I was hired within 24
hours," she says.</p>
<h3>8. An inexpensive training and professional-development program</h3>
<p>In most organizations, budgets for training and professional development were among the first line items slashed in
the economic downturn. You might be willing to invest money out of pocket for such programs, but if you were to
search on the Internet for programs that teach you communication, public speaking, and leadership skills, you'd
be looking to pay hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in most cases.</p>
<p>In contrast, the dues a member pays to belong to Toastmasters can be as low as $1.77 weekly. Your employer might even
be willing to sponsor your membership.</p>
<p>In Toastmasters, members have the opportunity to work toward educational goals, following a communication track and a
leadership track. The ultimate education award is Distinguished Toastmaster, which brings together both tracks. The
self-paced Toastmasters program proceeds in a logical sequence that helps members build skills with every speech
they give or leadership role they perform.</p>
<p>"If an individual has served in any of the volunteer leadership positions in the organization [through the
various levels of Toastmaster]," Niven says, "that individual has learned and applied amazing leadership
and team-building skills. As with every part of the Toastmasters International program, they have been provided with
excellent training for every role, and with guidance and mentoring from others."<a
href="https://www.toastmasters.org/Members/MembersFunctionalCategories/AboutTI/CommunicationandLeadershipTraining.aspx"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;"> Learn more about Toastmasters educational programs.</span></a></p>
<h3>9. Excellent networking opportunity</h3>
<p>Toastmasters provides a fun yet constructive way to network with others who may become your career contacts. Heather
O'Neill describes a Toastmasters networking experience "beyond all expectations" in <a
href="https://www.toastmasters.org/ToastmastersMagazine/ToastmasterArchive/2010/May/Networking-Secrets.aspx"
rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">an article in <i>Toastmaster</i> magazine</span></a>.
</p>
<h3>10. Regular reinforcement of learning</h3>
<p>As the Toastmasters brochure, Clear Communication points out, "When employees attend seminars, they quickly
forget what they learned; when they regularly attend Toastmasters meetings, they learn skills that stay with them
for a lifetime." Toastmasters clubs meet at least monthly, with many meetings weekly or twice a month, so
members continue to practice and develop skills.</p>
<p><em>Adapted from </em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.livecareer.com/resources/jobs/search/boost-career" target="_blank"><span
style="color:#0000ff;">https://www.livecareer.com/resources/jobs/search/boost-career</span></a></em></p>
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