District 4 Toastmasters

Official Website: www.d4tm.org • 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? 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. 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 Over 190 Bay Area organizations sponsor corporate Toastmasters groups as communication and leadership training for employees. Some companies and organizations with in-house Toastmasters Clubs are: Abbott Laboratories Adobe Systems Apple Computer, Inc. Bank of America Charles Schwab Cisco Systems, Inc. City of San Francisco Disney Dole Food Company, Inc. eBay, Inc. Facebook Genentech, Inc. Gilead Sciences Incorporated Google Hewlett-Packard LinkedIn Lockheed Martin Microsoft Monterey Institute of International Studies PayPal, Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers Stanford University State Farm Insurance Symantec Twitter Inc. U.S. Navy Walmart.com Wells Fargo Yahoo! Take the first step. Forming a Toastmasters group at your company is easy and inexpensive. Visit www.d4tm.org/membership/starting-a-club