Welcome to the Toastmasters Groningen Website !
We are very proud to be the first in Groningen to
carry on this honourable tradition. Our mission is
to create an appealing culture for interesting
people to develop themselves. In 2009 we
plan to become a official club.
Acquiring new skills, gaining confidence, making new
friends:
Toastmasters Groningen. You will be inspired and
amused!
Who are we?
Toastmasters Groningen is a Toastmasters club for
English speakers. It is a soon-to-be chartered
member of the worldwide Toastmasters Organization.
Toastmasters is a non-profit training and
educational organization with the objective to
enhance its members’ communication, leadership,
training and management skills. Toastmasters is the
largest and most successful organization of this
type in the world with approximately 200,000 members
in over 10,000 clubs in 80 countries.
Speeches in English
Both native English speakers as well as individuals
with a reasonable command of the English language
are invited to participate. For non-native English
speakers, this is a way to gain confidence in giving
speeches in a foreign language as well as a means to
improve on presentation and leadership techniques.
Native speakers will generally purely focus on
perfecting presentation and management skills.
Supporting your peers
Toastmasters does not provide paid trainers,
teachers or managers but is based on peers who
support you on your road to better communication.
However, Toastmaster members are often from the
business or educational field with experience and a
need to improve on communication and management
skills. It is the club's members who share
experiences, skills and provide support to those who
practice speeches by evaluating and providing honest
but also motivating feedback. This is all done in a
familiar and friendly setting.
Come visit us.
If you think that this might be something for you,
then please consider yourself invited as a guest!
You won't be asked for any euros nor asked to hold
any speeches; all you need to do is turn up.
Our
meetings start at 19.30, the best is if guests come
around 19.00 - 19.15.
When you
plan to visit, kindly let us know in advance, if
possible, by writing to our
VP
Membership at tmgroningen@live.nl.
If you
have any questions, feel free to write us an email
to:
tmgroningen@live.nl.