You may be asking yourself about right now, “develop your leadership skills with a toastmaster?” What gives? Okay, obviously we are not talking about a kitchen appliance, but we thought it may catch the eye of someone who has not heard of the word toastmaster in a leadership context. A toastmaster is someone responsible for the proceedings of a public speaking event. If you want to really catch the attention of the crowd and get them to listen you, you need to be able to speak confidently in public. In an article from the Las Vegas Review Journal, find out how people are developing their leadership skills with Toastmasters.
Develop Your Leadership Skills With a Toastmaster
Some people view speaking in front of a crowd as an intimidating task. But for members of Paradise-based Voice Links Toastmasters, this task has become a hobby.
Toastmasters, which helps people foster and develop public speaking and leadership skills, is the umbrella international organization that includes 92 clubs in the valley. One of these is Voice Links, which has united hundreds of members to its weekly meetings for more than 20 years.
“The club started meeting at the (Central Telephone) company back in the day at Valley View ( Boulevard) and Meadows Lane,” said Cleone Johns, Voice Links Toastmasters vice president of public relations. “Most members were from CenTel, but it was so close to the Water District that we had people from there join us. It’s changed since then, but we’ve been around for a long time.”
A good leader should be able to speak publicly with enough confidence and conviction to inspire. So you if you find yourself feeling a little queasy when it comes to speaking in public, you can try to develop your leadership skills with a Toastmaster group.
