Dresden International Toastmasters
Focus on your communication skills! That’s what billionaire investor Warren Buffett advises if you want to get ahead. We know how important communication is, so in our club we practice bringing our thoughts into the right words. Being able to have others follow your ideas is essential, especially as a team leader or manager. We promote a safe environment for practice and offer detailed feedback as we train our body language, voice, facial expressions and gestures to captivate and inspire our audience.
DRESDEN INTERNATIONAL TOASTMASTERS CLUB
When you visit us, you will be welcomed into a group of people from different cultural backgrounds who share the goal of helping each other become better speakers and presenters. As Toastmasters we want to be able to give a good speech in acertain amount of time. No matter if prepared speeches or completely spontaneous speeches, we want to practice regularly and learn techniques how to master speeches skillfully and how to use voice and body language correctly. There are Toastmasters clubs all over the world and the structure and agenda of our club evenings is the same everywhere. With Toastmasters you have a national and international network behind you to practice in a safe and appreciative environment and grow beyond yourself. So get out of your comfort zone – the stage is yours!
OUR CLUB
We are a diverse community consisting of different professional groups. What unites us all is the interest in free speech and learning as well as feedback in a pleasant atmosphere.
OUR GOALS
We want to practice speaking freely and improve our communication with others as well as our leadership skills. We practice using our voices and body language correctly.
OUR COMMUNITY
Everything can, nothing must. A strong community is created by all supporting each other. We give feedback to each other in order to grow faster and develop our speaker personality.
OUR CLUB EVENINGS
An evening at Toastmasters follows a prepared program and lasts about two hours including a break. It consists of three parts. Different offices lead through the evening.
According to their learning path in the training program, the speakers prepare and deliver approximately five- to ten-minute speeches.
For this purpose, a table tobic moderator prepares questions. To these questions, the speakers improvise short speeches of about 1-2 minutes. Even as a guest, you can jump in at the deep end and give an table tobics speech if you wish!
Here, all speakers receive constructive feedback from other club members. For each prepared speech, an evaluation speaker analyzes the speech as a whole and provides tips. A table topics evaluator provides feedback on these short speeches.
All speeches must be within a given time frame. The timekeeper uses a traffic light to indicate where the speech is in the time frame and rings off speeches that are too long.
The Ah-Counter points out superfluous filler words such as "Ehm", "Mh..", "And".
The Grammarian or language evaluator analyzes all prepared and impromptu speeches for correct use of the English language and for good and not so good aspects regarding grammar, stylistics and word choice.
OUR TRAINING
Since 2018, Toastmasters has been working with the new Pathways training concept. This combines online training with regular practice in the clubs and thus offers a very effective rhetoric and leadership training program. More about our training…
LEARNING BY DOING
We are not a rhetoric course with a teacher in front of us. We believe that the best way to learn to communicate is by speaking and that regular practice with detailed feedback makes all the difference.
PATHWAYS
Pathways is an interactive learning platform and integrates professional rhetoric and leadership training in 11 different pathways. From these pathways, you choose one that best suits your needs.
Toastmaster International
Where leaders are made!
Dresden International Business Toastmasters will be a club within Toastmasters International. Toastmasters International is an international non-profit organization founded in 1924 in the USA, that trains speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Toastmasters International offers the benefits of an international network. Toastmasters clubs exist in 143 countries and many languages are spoken within the clubs. In Germany, there are English, Spanish, French and even Chinese-speaking clubs in addition to German-speaking ones.
SPEECH CONTESTS
Speech contests are held once a year in English and German. These start at the club level and go through several instances (Area, Division, District) to the international speech contest, which is held in English. The spring competitions are for prepared international and evaluation speeches, and the fall competition is for prepared humorous speeches and table topics speeches.
OUR NEXT MEETINGS
We will meet every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month | at 6:30 pm. We are happy to welcome interested guests to our gym of rhetoric skills. We ask that you be there on time, preferably 15 minutes before the start time. Afterward, we enjoy time for networking, sharing, and nice conversation (often over snacks and drinks). Members, please register in time via our organization platform EasySpeak.
Interested guests are welcome.
Interested guests are welcome.
Interested guests are welcome.