Southern Lights - Speak|Lead|Transform |
Southern Lights will have forty-five years of professional, dynamic, and friendly meetings in the 2023 season. Become more confident in your speaking and leadership skills and be mentored by experienced Toastmasters to achieve your personal goals. Take advantage of a proven educational system, and learn at your own pace in a fun-filled environment.
Our Mission:
We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.
Through this mission, each Toastmaster gains a clear understanding of the club's purpose, and members of Southern Lights and Toastmasters International benefit from a shared set of values and goals. |
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Looking to improve your speaking and leadership skills? Ignite your career? Gain the confidence to speak up?
You’ve come to the right place. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped more than 4 million people just like you, from around the world, become more confident speakers and leaders.
Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development, with more than 364,000 members in over 16,200 clubs in 145 countries. This network of clubs and their learn-by-doing programme are sure to help you improve.
Toastmasters will give you the skills and confidence you need to express yourself effectively in any situation. Whether you are a professional, student, stay-at-home parent or retired, Toastmasters is the most efficient, enjoyable and affordable way of gaining great communication skills. You'll learn how to:
- Formulate and express your ideas effectively
- Be more persuasive and confident when giving presentations
- Improve your one-on-one dealings with others
Don't delay! Become the speaker and leader you want to be. Confident, charismatic leaders weren't born that way. As you progress in Toastmasters, you'll get to practice your skills by organising and conducting meetings and motivating others to help you. Become a better negotiator. Gain trust. Inspire your team.
Visit our next meeting - guests are most welcome. You won't regret it!
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Southern Lights - Our Club |
Southern Lights Toastmasters
Southern Lights Toastmasters has been running in Edmonton for 43
years and has many experienced speakers to help mentor new members in their path to self confidence in communication and leadership. We have consistently maintained professional and high quality standards for our club and provide one of the best learning environments for these valuable skills. With our diversified membership and the combination of our level of experience and youthful enthusiasm, we have many new members join every year to add to our dynamic meetings. We welcome everyone to come out as our guest and experience first hand our fun filled meetings and discover how so many have benefitted from joining our club. |
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The Toastmasters Mission A statement of shared values
Every Toastmasters club shares the same mission, clearly defined in the following mission statement:
We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.
Through this mission, each Toastmaster gains a clear understanding of the club's purpose, and the organization as a whole benefits from a shared set of values and goals.
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Everyone in a Toastmasters meeting was once at the level you are now. The environment is friendly and supportive, and the self-paced programme allows you to build confidence with each speaking assignment.
- A typical club has between 20 to 40 members who meet either weekly, biweekly or monthly. An evening meeting normally lasts around 90- 120 minutes.
- There is no instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead, members evaluate one another’s presentations, pointing out the strengths and suggesting improvements. This feedback process is a key part of the program’s success. Members also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings and develop their leadership skills.
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We learn through the Toastmasters Pathways learning experience, an exciting, flexible and interactive way to develop your skills and help others in your club develop theirs. Pathways helps you learn communication and leadership skills that you need to succeed. It gives you:
- The opportunity to build up to 300 unique competencies
- 10 specialized learning paths to choose from
- Online content, so that you can learn anytime, anywhere
- Real-world, transferable skills
One thing that you'll love at Toastmasters meetings is the applause. At first you'll be applauded for your effort; later you'll be applauded for your skill.
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Easy Speak FAQs |
I logged in. Now what do I do? It's easy to start using Easy Speak. Simply watch this series of short training videos designed to show you how to get the best use this system. How to review your progress and participation Progress and participation can be traced back at the Member Charts page. This page is accessible anywhere through the menu bar: This Club -> Member Charts. Various charts can be chosen, including: Speeches, Leadership Track (from the CL Manual), Participation, to name a few. How to trace your meeting roles At any of the meeting pages, click on the little graph icon just left of your name. This is especially helpful when you are filling up application for the Toastmasters Of The Year. How to trace your speech history At any of the meeting pages, use the link on the left sde: My Paricipation > View My Speech Progress
How to request a speech at a meeting At any of the meeting pages, use the link on the left sde: My Paricipation > Request a Speech Select your preferred speaking date, select the manual and assignment and fill in the speech title if you know it already.
How to set a Personal Objective When you have personal objectives (and agreed them with your Mentor if you have one) you can enter them in the system and have them show in your Personal Speech Progress and Leadership Progress screens. Just go to the Personal Progress screen and click on the 'New Goal' button.
This information is also visible to your Mentor and to the Club VPE - who can use them as a guide when assigning meeting roles and speeches for future meetings.
The Member List page is accessible anywhere through the menu bar: This Club -> User List. Note: Login may be required before you can access the information mentioned above.
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BE OUR GUEST! Your invitation |
When do we meet? |
Every Wednesday at 6:30 pm |
Where do we meet? |
Providence Centre |
3005 119 St NW
Edmonton
AB T6J 5r5 |
Be a guest at our next meeting! |
03 Apr 24 at 6:30 pm |
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Open to all |
Contact the President |
Download a TMI Application Form |
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