🛡 Code of conduct

• The club's top priority is to provide a safe, friendly, and fun environment for learning, experimentation, personal development, growth, and improvement.

• Keep it Professional: Use respectful language and avoid any comments that might make someone uncomfortable.

• Commitment: Please try to arrive on time and commit to assigned roles. Notify the team ahead of time if unable to attend or fulfill a role.

• Receiving Feedback: Accept feedback graciously, seeing it as an opportunity for growth.

• Giving Feedback: Give feedback that’s respectful while also including actionable steps for improvement.

• Honor Privacy: Please respect what’s shared within the club and don’t discuss personal stories outside the meeting.

• Pictures: Before taking pictures during a meeting, make sure that relevant members and guests are OK with having their picture taken.

• Do not hesitate to contact any of the club's officers about any matter. 

🌍 Toastmasters International Core Values

• Integrity – We match our actions with our words, demonstrate honesty and trustworthiness, communicate with sincerity and thoughtfulness, have the courage to acknowledge our mistakes, and always strive to do the right thing.

• Respect – We treat all with dignity, welcome diverse perspectives, acknowledge all contributions, believe that all have positive intent, practice mutual accountability, and critique but never demean.

• Service – We strive to provide high-value, exceptional support by being responsive, attentive, and passionate in fulfilling our duties as individuals and as an organization to all.

• Excellence – We consistently strive to meet or exceed expectations by upholding the Toastmasters Promise, nurturing a collaborative environment, innovating to deliver creative solutions, and optimizing quality to produce superior service.

Visit toastmasters.org for Toastmaster's mission.

🧊 First step

• Your very first speech at Toastmasters is called the Ice Breaker, in which you give a short 4-6 minute talk about yourself. The goal is to get you started with public speaking and so that club members can get to know you.

• You can talk about anything you'd like!

• Read more on Ice Breaker on the Toastmasters website here.

• See next sections for instructions for signing up for a speaking slot.

🗓️ What should I do towards an upcoming meeting?

• Please RSVP your attendance towards each meeting, the sooner the better. 

• This is important so that everyone knows how many members will be present and for distributing roles.

• Marking your attendance is done on EasySpeak, see our EasySpeak Tutorial.

🗣️ How do I reserve speaking slots? ("Speeches")

• Each meeting has up to 3 speeches given by members.

• When a session has 3 speakers, we also vote for Best Speaker! So please sign up for as many speeches as you'd like!

• Toastmasters Europe uses a system called EasySpeak for signing up for speeches and supporting roles.

See our EasySpeak Tutorial for instructions on how to reserve a speaking slot.

✍️ How do I register for supporting roles?

• Each club meeting has several fun and important supporting roles, such as Timekeeper, Grammarian, Host, Evaluators, etc. 

• These roles are important for keeping the meeting rolling and for giving valuable feedback to members who take speaking roles.

• These roles also allow members to spend time in front of an audience even when they aren't giving a speech.

• Members usually take a maximum of one role per meeting.

• For a list of the different roles see: https://www.toastmasters.org/membership/club-meeting-roles

• See our EasySpeak Tutorial for instructions for how to sign up for roles.

🚴 Training Paths

• Toastmasters offers different "Paths" that you can choose based on what's important for you to work on. Two common paths are "Presentation Mastery" which aims to improve public speaking skills and "Dynamic Leadership" which is aimed at building leadership skills.

• Read more about the paths here: https://www.toastmasters.org/Education/Pathways/Pathways%20Paths%20and%20Projects

• Each path is divided into Levels, and each Level is broken down into Projects. Each Project has a different focus, such as body language, vocal variety, speech structure, etc.

• When you register for a speaking slot on EasySpeak, you specify which Level and Project your speech will be related to.