Southside Speakers is the Glasgow Southside branch of Toastmasters International
  
Whether you're a professional, student, stay-at-home parent, or retiree, Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication and presentation skills. Toastmasters can help you lose the fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen. You'll be a better listener. You'll easily lead teams and conduct meetings. You'll comfortably give and receive constructive evaluation. You already have some or all of these skills. In Toastmasters, you will enhance them.

Southside Speakers is a not for profit organisation dedicated to helping people from all backgrounds to improve their communication and leadership skills. Our members are encouraged to learn the art of public speaking by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment.  

You are welcome to come to our meetings as a guest, or to join as a new member. There is no pressure to speak until you feel ready.

Meetings have a friendly and supportive atmosphere. There's no dress code, so just come along as you are. 

We have our regular meetings at 7.15pm on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month (2nd and 4th Tuesdays during July and August 2008)  in the beautiful surroundings of:
Pollokshields Burgh Hall, 70 Glencairn Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow, G41 4LL
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1. Good communicators, says a leading management consultant, are seen as more effective and more powerful than their less eloquent counterparts.
2. Persuasive speaking is an important and valued skill. It helps you to put ideas across, make more sales, give successful presentations, gain promotion and do your work more effectively. 
3. It also affects people's perceptions of you in meetings, on the telephone and in one-to-one relationships.
4. Whatever your goals may be, much of your success in life depends on your ability to communicate effectively. Virtually every executive position advertised specifies the need for communication skills, which are generally regarded as key elements in building a successful career.
5. Toastmasters International provides the tools to develop these important skills. In Toastmasters, you learn by doing, by speaking to groups in comfortable and supportive surroundings, rather than a sterile classroom environment.
6. The Toastmasters programme has proved itself around the world. Globally, more than three million people of all ages and occupations have taken part, and gross membership of Toastmasters International increases at a rate of about 250 people a day. There are more than 220,000 members in more than 11,300 clubs in approximately 90 countries.