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EUNOIA Words Have Power So as Toastmasters. By Ruddra Dev Roychoudhury , TCS Maitree Kolkata Toastmasters Club Words are very powerful when used in the right way. It is a very powerful skill to have no matter what career you choose. It is said, that your professional growth increases five-fold, if you learn public speaking. Apart from career growth, your relationships get better with open communication, you make friends easily, and people always remember you as a pleasant person. Leadership helps shape how the world sees you. Things that seemed impossible previously now became easy to do. Over 7 out of 10 people in this world are afraid of public speaking. So if you take care of your fear, you are already on the top 3. If you are an effective Communicator, you just knocked another guy behind. Even rare are good leaders. Most of the time, they can be found to be in the top 1 percent. Here at Toastmasters, we aim to make better leaders and communicators. And to keep to the spirit of making leaders, we do not follow any instructor led trainings. We encourage leaders among ourselves to take up the responsibility of leading the change among others. Over time, that makes people stronger in all skills related for Communication. To grow, Toastmasters take up a lot of leadership roles, under the mentorship of more senior Toastmasters. We have the Sergeant-At-Arms who is responsible for the logistics, and starting the session. Taking up this role is easy, but it does wonders to your self-confidence as you are the first person to speak in a session for a minimum of 6 months. Next comes the Treasurer. They are the finance managers of the club. The Secretary keeps all the club and session information in order, and archives them for future reference. Vice President Membership is like the scouts for a football team. CONTD. SEP 2016 | EUNOIA | 9