Society Toastmasters celebrated its 20th Anniversary year on Thursday February 25th at 7:30pm.
You can see the photos by clicking here. The anniversary programme can be found by clicking here.
(The programme can be printed using duplex and short side stapling).
Our last two meetings of the 2009/10 season are on June 3rd and 17th at 7:30 pm - all welcome! We return on September 9th.
Listen to three members of Society Toastmasters doing a
guest
slot on WDAR 96FM radio by clicking on
http://wdar.ie/live.html.
Go to 'On Demand' and then click on "live show sat 15 may 2010". Skip
to 01:46:48 - that's where our hour-long show begins.
The 2001 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren LeCroix, was on Tom Dunne's Newstalk 106 Radio Show on Friday May 14th from 10:00 and on RTE's 'The Business' with John Murray on Saturday May 15th - check out their pod casts.
We meet at Chartered Accountants House, 47-49 Pearse St. Dublin 2 at 7:30pm every 2nd and 4th Thursday per month from September to May. The remaining dates are: May 13th & 27th, June 3rd & 17th. Please note that we have added two new dates in June to accommodate our new members desire to get on the programme to make a speech.
Our club is open to all. You don't have to be an accountant to join - about half our members come from the accountancy profession and half from other backgrounds.
Now that we are conveniently located beside Pearse St. Dart Station why not come along and see what Toastmasters can do for your oral presentation and leadership skill set. Our annual membership subscription is €100. Those joining for less than the full year will pay a reduced fee depending on the time of year that they join. When a new member joins the fee goes in part to cover membership of Toastmasters International and the purchase of a new member's manuals.
Did you see us in the Accountancy magazines?
Congratulations on taking the first step to becoming a better speaker! The second step is easy, come along as a guest (free of charge) to one of our meetings to experience our Toastmasters club for yourself.
In Society Toastmasters we have approx. 25 to 30 members who vary in age and in experience. For me, Society Toastmasters has been the best club that I have joined. When I started to improve my speaking skills I felt that I had grown a new limb! The sense of achievement, satisfaction and confidence one gets, is amazing!
Being able to speak well and with confidence in public is such a practical skill
Furthermore, it is always great to see new members making progress - whatever their starting point or initial skill level. Society Toastmasters has a number of long-standing advanced speakers that are always available to mentor new members and impart their valuable advice on how to become a competent speaker - or on how to become an advanced speaker to those that already carry a high skill level upon entering the club.
Lastly, one of the best things that Society Toastmasters will give you is some lovely friends!
Eileen Igoe, President, Society Toastmasters.----
Society Toastmasters is based at the HQ of Chartered Accountants,Ireland - at 47/48 Pearse St, Dublin 2. Please see our 'Directions' page for an update. We meet on the second and fourth Thursday of every month (Sept. to May) at 7:30pm at Chartered Accountants, Ireland.For further details email: or phone Pauline Cronin at 086 279 7111. We look forward to welcoming you to our club as a guest or as a new member!Please scroll further down this page to see how our club works or go to our page entitled 'How our club works' in the Main Menu on the left.
Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped millions of men and women become more confident in front of an audience. Our network of clubs and their learn-by-doing program are sure to help you become a better speaker and leader. Why pay thousands of dollars for a seminar when you can join a Toastmasters club for a fraction of the cost and have fun in the process?
Toastmasters will give you the skills and confidence you need to effectively express yourself in any situation. Whether you are a professional, student, stay-at-home parent or retiree, Toastmasters is the most efficient, enjoyable and affordable way of gaining great communication skills. By learning to effectively formulate and express your ideas, you open an entirely new world of possibilities. You’ll be more persuasive and confident when giving presentations, and you’ll improve your one-on-one dealings with others.
Don’t worry! Everyone in a Toastmasters club was once at the level you are now. The environment is friendly and supportive, and the self-paced program allows you to build confidence with each speaking assignment. And you’ll love the applause! Constructive evaluation is the heart of the Toastmasters program. Each time you give a prepared speech, an evaluator will point out strengths and suggest improvements. At first you’ll be applauded for your effort; later you’ll be applauded for your skill.
You won’t regret it. Toastmasters currently has more than 200,000 members in 80 countries. Our club is just one of the more than 10,000 clubs located around the world. For membership meeting information, please see our membership information page.
More About Toastmasters...
How our club works
Membership is open to all so please come and observe us at first hand as a guest as many times as you like before deciding whether to join the club or not.
The following items describe some aspects of our club and how we do our business:
What happens at our club meetingsBefore the meeting startsWe start promptly at 7:30pm on the second and fourth Thursday of every month between September and May of each year.
Before the meeting proper starts, club members chat informally and meet and greet other members, new members and guests.
OpeningAt 7:30pm, the President calls the meeting to order. He/she will open the meeting with some topical comments and introduce the Toastmaster for the evening.
The Toastmaster will take the gavel from the President and chair the meeting for the remainder of the night, introducing the speakers and participants as required.
Prepared speechesIn the early part of the meeting, members (who had previously agreed to be on the programme) will be invited by the Toastmaster to deliver their prepared speech. Speeches are typically of 5-7 minutes duration and a meeting will usually consist of 3-4 prepared speeches.
Speeches are typically written to fulfill objectives of a Toastmaster manual and each members decides what their own speech will be about.
These speeches are then evaluated later in the meeting.
BreakAt about 8:20 or 8:30 those in attendance will go for a 10/15 minute tea/coffee break.
After the break, the Toastmaster will call the meeting to order again and introduce the Topics Master.
TopicsThe Topics Master is delegated to compose a list of topics (before the meeting) and ask members to stand and respond extemporaneously/off-the-cuff to the topic that has been given to them.
Guests are never asked to partake in this section and members may opt out until they wish to partake - but it is usually more fun and a great challenge to have a go!
The topics section provides a real opportunity for members to learn to 'think and respond on their feet'. Members will speak for a minute or so on a topic.
After the topics session has ended, the Toastmaster will introduce the General Evaluator (GE).
EvaluationsThe GE is delegated to evaluate all that has happened throughout the evening and express his/her comments on what has been done well and on what might be improved.
The GE invites evaluators to come forward and present a 2-3 minute evaluation of a speech that had been delivered earlier in the night. There will be a separate evaluator for each speech. A typical evaluation will offer constructive evaluation and supportive comments about the speech that a member delivers.
The GE concludes his/her evaluation and hands control of the gavel back to the Toastmaster.
ClosingThe Toastmaster offers his/her closing comments and passes the gavel back to the President.
At 9:30 PM the President closes the meeting. Typically, members go to a nearby hotel/pub for a drink and a chat.
The wider Toastmasters organisationEach Toastmasters club relates to other clubs in its ‘Area’. Each ‘Area’ exists within a ‘Division’. Each ‘Division’ is affiliated to a ‘District’ (Ireland & GB) and all the Districts together make up the Toastmasters organisation throughout the world.
Every Autumn the club holds a club ‘Humourous Speech Contest’ and a ‘Topics’ contest.
Every Spring it holds a ‘Speech Contest’ and an ‘Evaluation Contest’.
The winners of these contests advance to represent the club at ‘Area’ level and perhaps subsequently at ‘Division’ and ‘District’ levels before the ultimate stage – the Toastmasters International contests that are held in the United States each year. It is essentially a world championship of public speaking.
Significant events in our calendarHumourous Speech and Topics Contests (September)
New Members night (October)
Mulled wine and mince pies night (December)
Christmas Dinner and Tall Tales (January)
Theme night (February/March)
Speech and Evaluation Contests (April)
AwardsMembers follow programmes laid out in the Speech and Leadership manuals to achieve the certified awards described in the graphic:
2009/10 CommitteeThe club is run by a committee under the guidance of the Club President as follows:
President: Eileen Igoe
Immediate Past President: Katie Harrington
VP for Education: Patrick Devaney
VP Membership: Pauline Cronin
VP PR: Ray Murphy
Secretary: Deirdre McGrath
Treasurer: Karl Flood
Sergeant at Arms: Diana Jamieson
