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Kildare Toastmasters Club - New Meeting Location - Kildare LEADER centre, Old Convent, Meadow Road, Kidare Town R51 RF88

Welcome to the 2022/2023 Toastmasters year - our meetings are back.

Kildare Toastmasters is a public speaking and leadership club in Kildare Town. Our meetings are held both in-person and online on zoom 

We are part of Toastmasters International, a non-profit educational organisation with over 345,000 members in 15,900 clubs across 122 countries that helps members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills.

Whether you are giving a presentation, going to job interviews or speaking at a wedding! Learn to speak with confidence, learn to craft a great speech, and learn how to lead.

Feel free to come along to one of our meetings and find out how. Visitors and Guests are always most welcome. Our meetings are held 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month.

We hold our meetings at Kildare LEADER centre, The Old Convent, Meadow Road, Kidare Town R51 RF88

See www.facebook.com/KildareToastmasters 

You can contact club membership Declan Prendergast at declanfarms@gmail.com or call him at 087 719 6450

 

 
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The Toastmasters Mission
A statement of shared values

Every Toastmasters club shares the same mission, clearly defined in the following mission statement:

We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater selfconfidence and personal growth.

Through this mission, each Toastmaster gains a clear understanding of the club's purpose, and the organization as a whole benefits from a shared set of values and goals.



 

Looking to improve your speaking and leadership skills? Ignite your career? Gain the confidence to speak up?

You’ve come to the right place. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped more than 4 million people just like you, from around the world, become more confident speakers and leaders. 

Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development, with more than 364,000 members in over 16,200 clubs in 145 countries. This network of clubs and their learn-by-doing programme are sure to help you improve.

Toastmasters will give you the skills and confidence you need to express yourself effectively in any situation. Whether you are a professional, student, stay-at-home parent or retired, Toastmasters is the most efficient, enjoyable and affordable way of gaining great communication skills. You'll learn how to:

  • Formulate and express your ideas effectively
  • Be more persuasive and confident when giving presentations
  • Improve your one-on-one dealings with others

Don't delay! Become the speaker and leader you want to be. Confident, charismatic leaders weren't born that way. As you progress in Toastmasters, you'll get to practice your skills by organising and conducting meetings and motivating others to help you. Become a better negotiator. Gain trust. Inspire your team.

Visit our next meeting - guests are most welcome. You won't regret it!



 
A Typical Toastmasters Meeting

So what is a typical Toastmasters meeting and what can Toastmasters do for me?

This is probably the question most asked of us.

Whilst Toastmasters is a huge international education led organisation, the individual clubs are distinctly local and you'll find as a diverse a membership as the local population.

What Toastmasters can do for you…

Do you want to minimise your fear of public speaking and become better at it?

Do you want to learn how to organise thoughts in your head better and faster (Table Topics is great for this)?

Do you want to meet more people interested in improving themselves?

You’ll get all that and more out of Toastmasters. You’ll no longer be terrified of getting up to speak in front of people. Some fear will still linger, but it’ll be more like a nervous excitement, not complete dread. Toastmasters will definitely help you think better on your feet and express your thoughts more coherently. And best of all, it’s done in a friendly supportive club atmosphere here in Kildare Town where all members want to better themselves, and they want to help others better themselves too.

Here’s a run down of the different roles in a typical Toastmasters meeting – all roles are taken by member as part of their leadership learning

Toastmaster: The Toastmaster runs the show. He/she picks the theme of the meeting in advance, and has several opportunities to speak on it throughout. The Toastmaster also introduces various other members in their roles throughout the meeting.

Table Topics Master: It’s always fun to be the Table Topics Master. When in this role, you get to stand at the lectern and pick people from the audience to give short, impromptu speeches. You’ll usually have a list of questions/topics prepared in advance. For example, if I’m the Table Topics Master, I might say: “Last night I had a dream about a giraffe sitting on roof singing Eye of the Tiger in Spanish. Can you tell us about a strange dream you’ve had recently.” Members will then have to stand and try to give a confident, well-spoken response lasting anything from a few seconds to one minute.

Speaker We usually have three or four featured speakers at each meeting. These folks will have prepared 5-7 minute speeches on just about any topic. Each speech typically has a focus, based on the Education path the speaker has chosen (there are 11 choices) be it body language, vocal variety, entertainment value, etc. But within those frameworks, you can speak about anything at all. The first speech any member gives is an Icebreaker, where they simply introduce themselves to the other members, say who they are and what they’re about.

Evaluator Each speaker has an evaluator. An evaluator will stand up for 2-3 minutes at the end of the speeches and deliver feedback on the speaker he/she was assigned to. There are many different styles of evaluation, but the goal is always the same: help the speaker improve. An evaluator will often say what she liked about the speech, and then suggest some areas for improvement.

General Evaluator The General Evaluator evaluates the evaluators and gives he/she wraps up by giving their general thoughts on the meeting, noting anything remarkable and offering any suggestions to improve future meetings.

President The club President opens and closes the meeting, and makes any official announcements. We elect a new president every year, and that person is responsible for the proper running of the club.

Other roles At each meeting we also have people act as the following: Timer – keeps track of how long everyone speaks for and works the light signal so speakers know when to finish. Grammarian – notes interesting and inappropriate uses of grammar. Ah Counter – keeps track of any filler words (ah, um, you know, etc.) used by the speakers and Listener- they ask for members to answer questions on the meeting to see if everyone was listening.  

  

 


 
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