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- How well do your employees convey their expertise to potential customers?
- Can they lead meetings efficiently?
- Can they offer constructive feedback and diplomatically deal with a wide range of people?
Good communicators tend to be good leaders, and chances are your company needs employees with leadership potential. This is where Toastmasters can help. Having a Toastmasters club is like having an onsite training class for busy professionals – a communication makeover if you will – where employees meet once a week to practice communication in a supportive setting with their co-workers. The cost is minimal and the benefits long-lasting.
Your company's success depends in large part on how well your employees communicate – with each other as well as with customers. The effects of a poorly run meeting or an ineffective sales presentation are lasting and expensive.
Toastmasters training will teach your employees to:
• Give better sales presentations
• Organize teams
• Hone their management skills
• Effectively present ideas
• Conduct meetings
• Develop their leadership
• Listen better and offer constructive criticism
Take the first step. Forming a Toastmasters group at your company is easy and inexpensive. Click here to find out how to start a club.
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The effectiveness of Toastmasters' learn-by-doing program has been continuously validated since 1924. In District 4, over 50 Bay Area organizations sponsor corporate Toastmasters groups as communication and leadership training for employees. A non-exhaustive list of companies with in-house Toastmasters clubs follows:
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Advent Software, Inc. Amazon Bank of America BlackRock BlueCross BlueShield Burning Man California Academy of Sciences CBS Corp. Charles Schwab City of Palo Alto City of San Francisco City of San Mateo Chamber of Commerce Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco First Republic Bank Genentech, Inc. Gilead Sciences Incorporated |
Golden Gate University Guidewire Software Inc. Hewlett-Packard Hult International Business School Intuit Macy's Marsh McKesson Corporation Menlo Park Presbyterian Church Method Products, Inc. Notre Dame de Namur University Oracle Corporation PricewaterhouseCoopers Riverbed Technology Salesforce.com San Francisco Board of Realtors San Francisco Federal Credit Union San Mateo County Association of Realtors |
SAP Labs Inc. Slalom Consulting Space Systems/Loral SRI International Stanford University State of California Public Utilities Commission The Tennessee Grill Thermo Fisher TIBCO Software U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Visa International VMware Walmart.com Wharton School of Business Wells Fargo |