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<h1><u><a id="Top" name="Top"></a>Steps to becoming our Toastmasters club member</u></h1>

<p>To become our club member, you need to pay the fees to Toastmasters International.<br />
    (Assuming USD&nbsp; 1 = MYR 4.43) For new members, the fee is <strong>RM 400 for the first 6 months </strong>(RM 300 Member fee + RM 100 One-Time registration fee)&nbsp;and <strong>a renewal fee of RM 300 for every 6 months paid before the start of the renewal cycle on April 1st and October 1st </strong>(Optional, if you would like to continue). However, the fee for new members is prorated according to your starting month until the renewal cycle. Please use the dropdown menu to view your fee according to whichever month you want to start with. The calculation is based on <a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/leadership-central/governing-documents#:~:text=expectation%20of%20excellence-,Policy%208.0%3A%20Dues%20and%20Fees,-Membership%20dues%20payments" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Policy 8.0: Dues and Fees</span></a> in the Governing Documents.</p>

<p>Check your membership fee here,</p>

<p><strong>USD $10.00 is the amount for a month and $20 is the new member fee. An extra RM10 is incurred for the international transfer charge which has been included in the converted amount.</strong></p>

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<p>The payment is made to our treasurer via <strong>online banking transfer</strong>. Here are the payment details:</p>

<p><strong>Bank Account Number</strong>: 704 552 4163<br />
    <strong>Bank Name</strong>: CIMB Bank<br />
    <strong>Recipient Name</strong>: MOHD ARIFF DIN BIN M ANUAR<br />
    <strong>Amount</strong>: <strong>RM</strong><strong id="showamountMYR">.</strong></p>
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<p>After payment is successful, please <strong>upload the bank-in receipt to the Google Form and fill in the Google Form using this link,&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://forms.gle/BB4Frp7Li4TcerPQ6" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://forms.gle/BB4Frp7Li4TcerPQ6</span></a></p>

<p>We will&nbsp;add your membership to Toastmasters International.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Everyone is welcome to join us as a member. We&#39;ll be always happy to support you and help you to develop your communication and leadership&nbsp;skills here in Toastmasters. Still not decided yet? Join our meetings as a guest <strong>as many times as you wish for</strong> <span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>free</strong></span>! The club meeting is held every 1st and 3rd week on&nbsp;Wednesday every month.</p>

<p>People say the fee is too expensive and <strong>not worth the&nbsp;2 meetings per month</strong>. <strong>Why limit yourself to practice at 1 club?</strong> At Cyberjaya Toastmasters, we want you to get <strong>as much practice as you want</strong> to develop your confidence. So, you&#39;re most welcome to <strong>speak at other clubs</strong> by becoming a prepared speaker or playing a role or evaluating someone. There are many speaking opportunities in Toastmasters either virtually or physically.</p>

<p>For first-timers, we encourage you to join our meetings as a guest&nbsp;for free first before considering becoming a member to see how Toastmasters works. Have questions? Send us an email at&nbsp;<i>contact-5257608@toastmastersclubs.org&nbsp;</i>or contact Alif, the Club Vice President of Public Relations&nbsp;via WhatsApp,&nbsp;<a href="https://wa.me/601128847741" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://wa.me/601128847741</span></a></p>

<hr />
<h1><u>Benefits of being a Toastmasters member</u></h1>

<h3><span style="color:#ff0000;">Warning: The benefits are so big that it will change your life&nbsp;360&deg;</span></h3>

<h2>Confidence</h2>

<p>Speaking in Toastmasters provides new challenges and plenty of opportunities to be proud of your accomplishments. The more you expand your skills and talents, the more confidence you have in yourself!</p>

<p>Self-confidence builds trust in others. People want to listen to someone who is confident in what they have to say and how they say it.</p>

<h2>Friendship</h2>

<p>Toastmasters is a friendly environment where people are genuinely interested in each other. Toastmasters works because it&rsquo;s welcoming, positive and supportive with each and every member playing a role in every other member&rsquo;s growth and success.</p>

<p>Join Toastmasters and you&rsquo;ll find you&rsquo;ve become friends with people you wouldn&rsquo;t know otherwise. You get to know members and they get to know you as you learn to appreciate and encourage the best in everyone you meet.</p>

<h2>Encouragement</h2>

<p>Every Toastmaster receives heaps of encouragement and the best part is you&rsquo;re encouraged to be your best self. Every Toastmaster has inherent talents and a wonderfully unique perspective to share. Toastmasters is all about encouraging yourself and others to be as awesome as you can be.</p>

<p>As a Toastmaster, you share specific, positive, and constructive feedback and by doing so invest in your fellow member&rsquo;s success as much as your own. You celebrate the victory of every member&rsquo;s accomplishments.</p>

<p>In addition to these great benefits, there are many other awesome skills&nbsp;that&#39;ll be gained in Toastmasters such as:</p>

<ul>
    <li>Becoming a more effective communicator</li>
    <li>Improving your&nbsp;grammar and vocabulary</li>
    <li>Exercising time management skills</li>
    <li>Being a great listener</li>
    <li>Learning to give specific, positive, and helpful feedback</li>
    <li>Speaking to inspire</li>
    <li>Speaking to entertain</li>
    <li>Speaking to inform (without boring!)</li>
    <li>Give presentations that don&rsquo;t suck!</li>
    <li>Responding intelligently to impromptu questions</li>
    <li>Leading meetings with authority and assurance</li>
    <li>Being heard and understood when you speak</li>
    <li>Leading by example</li>
</ul>

<h2>Pathways Learning</h2>

<p>Toastmasters members have access to the Pathways learning experience, which is Toastmasters&#39;&nbsp;education program that allows you to leverage over 300 practical workplace skills, including:</p>

<ul>
    <li>Interview preparation</li>
    <li>Online meeting management</li>
    <li>Leadership development</li>
    <li>Project management</li>
    <li>Conflict resolution</li>
</ul>

<p>Pathways are like your guide when you do speeches in club meetings. Members access the Pathways through Base Camp which is the online gateway to Pathways.&nbsp;In Base Camp,&nbsp;you can work on projects, track your progress, and view badges and certificates you&rsquo;ll earn along the way. Base Camp also features resources to help guide you, including tutorials, videos, quizzes, interactive activities and more. To know more about Pathways, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/pathways-overview" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://www.toastmasters.org/pathways-overview</span></a></p>

<p></p>

<h2>Compete in Speech Contests</h2>

<p>Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. Each year, thousands of Toastmasters compete in the Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech contests. Competition begins with club contests, and winners continue competing through the Area, Division and District levels. Winners of the District level International Speech Contest proceed to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/Leadership%20Central/Speech%20Contests/Region%20Quarterfinals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">region quarterfinal</span></a>&nbsp;level. Following region quarterfinals, winners advance to the semifinals for a chance to take part in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/events/2020-international-convention/world-championship-of-public-speaking" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">World Championship of Public Speaking<sup>&reg;</sup></span></a></p>

<p><em>Adapted from&nbsp;<a href="https://liveandlovework.com/2012/10/19/benefits-of-toastmasters/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">https://liveandlovework.com/2012/10/19/benefits-of-toastmasters/</span></a></em></p>

<hr />
<h2>WANT TO BECOME A BETTER COMMUNICATOR?</h2>

<p>Whether you&rsquo;re a professional, a student, a stay-at-home parent, or a retiree, Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Toastmasters can help you lose the fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in your chosen endeavor. You&rsquo;ll listen better. You&rsquo;ll more easily lead teams and conduct meetings. You&rsquo;ll comfortably give and receive constructive evaluations. You already have some or all of these skills. In Toastmasters, you will enhance them.</p>

<p>At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to and working with, others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about an hour and a half. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to learn and practice the skill of communication.</p>

<h3>Toastmasters learn to conduct meetings.</h3>

<p>Meetings often begin with a short business session which helps members learn the basics of meeting procedures.</p>

<h3>Toastmasters give impromptu speeches.</h3>

<p>Members present 1-2 minute impromptu speeches on assigned topics. This enables the members to have a &lsquo;comeback&rsquo; in those sticky situations&rsquo; we often find ourselves in our everyday lives.</p>

<h3>Toastmasters present prepared speeches.</h3>

<p>At a meeting, often two to three members will present speeches based on projects from the Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Program manuals. The skills learned in these often harrowing experiences, cover topics such as speech organization, voice, language, gestures, and persuasion.</p>

<p>Evaluation is the foundation that Toastmasters is built on.</p>

<p>Every prepared speaker is assigned an evaluator who points out the speech strengths and offers suggestions for areas of improvement.</p>

<h2>WHAT WILL IT DO FOR YOU?</h2>

<p>Most success depends on communication. In business, each employee, whether in management, or a regular &lsquo;Joe&rsquo;, faces an endless exchange of ideas, messages, and information as they deal with one another and with customers day-to-day. How well they communicate can determine whether a company quickly grows into an industry leader, or joins the thousands of businesses mired in mediocrity, or even bankruptcy.</p>

<p>Toastmasters provides the tools that enable us to become effective communicators and leaders, all at a very low cost.</p>

<h3>Toastmasters training helps everyone:</h3>

<ul>
    <li>It helps us give better presentations, even if it is only a request to the boss for a raise.</li>
    <li>It helps to hone our management skills.</li>
    <li>It helps us to work better with fellow employees. Often listening to what they have to say will help your day &lsquo;at the office&rsquo; go a little smoother.</li>
    <li>You may have invented the better mousetrap. Toastmasters will help you effectively develop and present your ideas.</li>
    <li>Toastmasters offers constructive feedback, to help you make the changes that lead to better communications.</li>
    <li>Toastmasters will help you to accept criticism more objectively.</li>
    <li>Toastmasters produce results. Around the world, more than three million men and women of all ages and occupations have benefited from Toastmasters training, and more than one thousand corporations, community groups, universities, associations, and government agencies now use Toastmasters training to enhance their communication skills.</li>
</ul>

<p><em>Adapted from&nbsp;<a href="http://d21toastmasters.org/about/why-join-toastmasters/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">http://d21toastmasters.org/about/why-join-toastmasters/</span></a></em></p>

<hr />
<p></p>

<h2 id="here-are-10-ways-the-club-can-propel-your-career">10 ways Toastmasters can propel your career</h2>

<h3>1. Chance to improve the skill most in demand by employers</h3>

<p>Hiring decision-makers consistently list communication as the No. 1 skill they seek in new hires. The candidates who get jobs and get promoted are confident and are the best communicators. Toastmasters members have endless opportunities to polish this skill that is so crucial for career advancement.</p>

<p>Members frequently credit Toastmasters with their new jobs and promotions. Others say they&#39;ve developed the confidence to take on projects they would not have felt they could handle before Toastmasters. &quot;I am more confident in my job speaking at all levels,&quot; says Lisa Ward, a member of Colville Toastmasters in Colville, WA.</p>

<h3>2. Opportunity to polish leadership skills</h3>

<p>Communication skills are a huge part of how Toastmasters helps professionals, but they go hand-in-hand with leadership skills. Since 2011, Toastmasters has emphasized leadership and developed the tagline, &quot;Where leaders are made.&quot;</p>

<p>Toastmasters is known for its well-organized and engaging meetings. They get that way through strong leadership. Members sharpen and practice leadership skills by running engaging meetings and special events.</p>

<h3>3. Practice thinking on your feet</h3>

<p>The comedian George Jessel once said: &quot;The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.&quot; Most of us have had the terrifying experience of freezing up when asked to speak unexpectedly. In addition to delivering prepared speeches, Toastmasters members attain experience in impromptu speaking during a regular meeting component called &quot;Table Topics,&quot; in which they speak for 1-2 minutes on a subject for which they&#39;ve had no advance preparation.</p>

<p>In the workplace, the rewards of learning to speak on your feet are tremendous. You may be called upon to speak to your boss, the media, customers, and other audiences with little previous notice. Developing your ability to speak eloquently off the cuff means you&#39;re ready to talk about anything and respond quickly to questions instead of having your mind go blank.</p>

<p>And speaking of questions, can you imagine how practice in thinking and speaking on your feet can benefit you in a job interview?</p>

<h3>4. Experience in running time-efficient meetings</h3>

<p>You have probably been in meetings that dragged on and on and went way over their allotted time. That doesn&#39;t happen in Toastmasters. Toastmasters clubs meet for a set amount of time -- often an hour -- and are committed to staying within that timeframe.</p>

<p>&quot;Toastmasters has shown me how to keep a meeting on task,&quot; says Colville Toastmasters founder Troy Anderson, &quot;so that everyone comes away without feeling frustrated from spending a lot of time and yet not making any headway.&quot; Linda Evans, also of the Colville club, says, &quot;I like that the meetings are so organized and only an hour long.&quot;</p>

<h3>5. Even more skills and resume items</h3>

<p>Beyond communication and leadership skills, the Toastmasters program specifically targets listening, critical thinking, giving feedback, time management, planning and implementation, organization and delegation, facilitation, mentoring, motivation, and team-building.</p>

<p>Toastmasters members can choose to undertake projects such as mounting publicity and membership campaigns, planning training programs, organizing special events, and serving as a top officer in a district comprising thousands of members.</p>

<h3>6. Attention from employers who recognize the value of Toastmasters</h3>

<p>&quot;There are several types of experience that always make me take notice of a candidate,&quot; says webinar specialist Susan Black (Niven). &quot;One is Toastmasters. Why Toastmasters? Because the communication, teamwork, leadership, and feedback skills that every member in every club learns are all-important in virtually any job. But probably the most important thing, for me, is the self-confidence that Toastmasters build along the way, and which affects every aspect of their lives,&quot; says Niven, who has served in volunteer leadership positions from the club level through to the Board of Directors of Toastmasters International.</p>

<p>As evidence of employers that recognize Toastmasters&#39; value, more than 3,000 organizations, including the Walt Disney Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Apple Computer, sponsor in-house Toastmasters clubs as communication training for employees.</p>

<h3>7. A way to legitimately characterize employment gaps constructively</h3>

<p>We&#39;ve always advised job seekers to try to account productively for time between jobs. Sometimes, however, candidates aren&#39;t very convincing in describing vague &quot;consulting&quot; or &quot;project&quot; work. Active Toastmasters members don&#39;t have that problem.</p>

<p>&quot;I had been unemployed for a year and a half at the height of the economic downturn,&quot; recalls Linda Eenigenburg, a metrics analyst at Aon Hewitt, Chicago. During an interview, both hiring managers, Eenigenburg says, were concerned about this gap and asked her what she had been doing during that time. Without hesitation, she described her extensive activities in Toastmasters International the past few years. &quot;I was hired within 24 hours,&quot; she says.</p>

<h3>8. An inexpensive training and professional-development program</h3>

<p>In most organizations, budgets for training and professional development were among the first line items slashed in the economic downturn. You might be willing to invest money out of pocket for such programs, but if you were to search on the Internet for programs that teach you communication, public speaking, and leadership skills, you&#39;d be looking to pay hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in most cases.</p>

<p>In contrast, the dues a member pays to belong to Toastmasters can be as low as $1.77 weekly. Your employer might even be willing to sponsor your membership.</p>

<p>In Toastmasters, members have the opportunity to work toward educational goals, following a communication track and a leadership track. The ultimate education award is Distinguished Toastmaster, which brings together both tracks. The self-paced Toastmasters program proceeds in a logical sequence that helps members build skills with every speech they give or leadership role they perform.</p>

<p>&quot;If an individual has served in any of the volunteer leadership positions in the organization [through the various levels of Toastmaster],&quot; Niven says, &quot;that individual has learned and applied amazing leadership and team-building skills. As with every part of the Toastmasters International program, they have been provided with excellent training for every role, and with guidance and mentoring from others.&quot;<a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/Members/MembersFunctionalCategories/AboutTI/CommunicationandLeadershipTraining.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">&nbsp;Learn more about Toastmasters educational programs.</span></a></p>

<h3>9. Excellent networking opportunity</h3>

<p>Toastmasters provides a fun yet constructive way to network with others who may become your career contacts. Heather O&#39;Neill describes a Toastmasters networking experience &quot;beyond all expectations&quot; in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toastmasters.org/ToastmastersMagazine/ToastmasterArchive/2010/May/Networking-Secrets.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;">an article in&nbsp;<i>Toastmaster</i>&nbsp;magazine</span></a>.</p>

<h3>10. Regular reinforcement of learning</h3>

<p>As the Toastmasters brochure, Clear Communication points out, &quot;When employees attend seminars, they quickly forget what they learned; when they regularly attend Toastmasters meetings, they learn skills that stay with them for a lifetime.&quot; Toastmasters clubs meet at least monthly, with many meetings weekly or twice a month, so members continue to practice and develop skills.</p>

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