Forest Lake Toastmasters Club

Each week we help people to develop confidence, improve their speaking and listening skills, and to provide a sense of community where we all learn self-confidence and personal growth. We’re not an exclusive or elitist group – and we can help you to strengthen your vocal and presentation skills that you may need a little assistance with.

So join us!

Your first visit is completely free, and as a member we enjoy some of the most inexpensive learning programs for personal and professional development in the world as part of the Toastmasters International program.

When you visit a club meeting, your first challenge is to contribute to the club program – in any one of more than a dozen different meeting positions. You will be able to observe the people who have done it before you in order to get a good feel for what the position entails, but there is nothing like getting up and doing it yourself.

All of a sudden questions pop up:

• do I do this from my seat or the lectern?
• how long should a table topic be?
• what does a warm-up master do?

Those are only some examples of the questions you will encounter as a member. Although Toastmasters International publishes excellent materials for the education of members, every club has their own style to conduct meetings in a way that makes it unique.

Only one thing will train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the person. You may aid, guide, suggest, and above all else you may inspire him or her, but the only thing worth having is that which the person gets
by his or her own exertions, and what is attained is in direct proportion to what is put into it.

A. Lawrence Lowell, former President Harvard University.