In Toastmasters, what you gain is not only the improvement in your communication skills.
Many Toastmasters members report other benefits of Toastmasters, as below:

Improvement in listening skills
"In Toastmasters, members evaluate other members' speeches. This requires us to listen to others carefully, providing an excellent opportunity to practice our listening skills. Also, we gain a lot of valuable information and insights as we listen to speeches made by people in diverse background."

Confidence in yourself
"One of the big feature of Toastmasters is that we "recognize" each other by finding out good points of our fellow members' speeches and our achievements. In Toastmasters, we think of how we can improve even better, instead of how to fix bad points. This way, we can naturally raise our confidence in not only our speaking skills but also ourselves."

Ability to "communicate" in English and Japanese
"Toastmasters is not a language school; we do not teach how to speak English or Japanese. Instead, we practice how to communicate in English and Japanese. Even if you do not have much confidence in speaking in a foreign language, we value your willingness to communicate. By practicing making speeches confidently regardless of the languages, the language skills will naturally follow. In fact, there are many Japanese Toastmasters who never thought about speaking English before they join their Clubs, and gained confidence in learning to speak it once they start making speeches."

Improvement in interpersonal skills
"Toastmasters provides an invaluable platform to improve our interpersonal skills as we increase our confidence in communication skills and ourselves. "

Meeting people in diverse backgrounds
"Toastmasters is a group of diversity. We meet people from different groups in age, nationality, gender and occupations, whom we could never have met if we had not join. Interacting with those people can broaden your perspective, and it can also be a good way to practice interpersonal skills."

Improvement in logical thinking skills
"We practice impromtu speeches as well as prepared speeches. These both require us the skills to think logically and express our views in an organized way."

Imprpovement in time management skills
"Timing is critical in Toastmasters. For example, meetings start exactly on time and are supposed to end exactly on time. Every speech in Toastmasters is timed and overtimed speeches cannot receive awards. Conducting Toastmasters meetings this way goes a long way in our daily life as we can naturally practice how to manage our time."

Leadership opportunity
"Toastmasters is a non-profit organization, so all the officers of Clubs and event staff are all volunteers. By getting involved in such roles, we can learn the basics of the organization management."

Just for fun!
"Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International, said, 'We learn best in moments of enjoyment'. Toastmasters meetings are designed to be fun. In addition to the enjoyable regular meetings, we also have special events such as speech contests and parties, where you can gain a lot of fun."

There are many other benefits of Toastmasters, which you can discover on your own. You still cannot believe it? Seeing is believing.
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