Our Purpose

Effectiveness and contribution in life often depend upon your communication skills.  Sapporo Toastmasters is dedicated to helping people develop effective communication and leadership skills, fostering self-confidence, personal growth, and human understanding.

Sapporo Toastmasters Club has introduced a proven, cost effective communication and leadership development program to Hokkaido.  Club members learn by doing, and improve through the constructive feedback of peers.  The atmosphere is always supportive, and usually lighthearted. Almost all members start out being afraid to speak in public and within six months are comfortable with public speaking. Through participation in the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership program, people from all backgrounds learn to effectively speak, conduct a meeting, manage a department or business, lead, delegate, and motivate.

Toastmasters International is the leading movement devoted to making effective spoken communication a worldwide reality.  Through member clubs, Toastmasters International helps men and women learn the arts of speaking, listening and thinking - vital skills that promote self-actualization, enhance leadership potential, foster human understanding, and contribute to the betterment of mankind.
 
 

Our Promise

The Sapporo Toastmasters Club provides a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.  To achieve our mission, our club shall:
 

1.  Help our individual members improve their abilities to communicate effectively;

2. Provide for our individual members instructions, educational materials, and opportunities which will give them skill and experience in the preparation and delivery of speeches;

3. Encourage our individual members to read and to listen analytically;

4. Provide for our individual members fair and constructive evaluation of their efforts toward self-improvement;

5. Increase our individual members knowledge for the rules of parliamentary procedure and their skills in conducting meetings and participating in group discussions;

6. Afford leadership training for our indvidual members; and

7. Provide opportunities and encouragement for our individual members to appear before audiences and to express their thoughts creditably.

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