About Message Masters Toastmasters Club
Message Masters Toastmasters Club, in downtown Ottawa, is one of over 90 Clubs across Ottawa/Gatineau, a great place for public speaking training in Ottawa.
Listen to Mark Geres express the benefits he received from the training received at Message Masters.
This video from the IBM Ottawa Toastmasters clearly captures the style, ease, and openness of many Toastmasters groups like our own:
Experienced professionals and beginning speakers benefit from our practical, experiential public speaking coaching program. Whether you speak to the Board of Directors, customers, co-workers, or your kids, we can help you do it with greater clarity, credibility and impact. Learn and practice speeches and speaking in a friendly, comfortable environment with like-minded people. Instead of practicing your presentation skills in front of prospects, clients, or your managers, where the result could affect the rest of your life, practice where there are no consequences, only feedback. Practice where you can focus on learning and having fun.
- Communication – beginning with the Icebreaker and continuing through Table Topics and additional speeches
- Leadership – as you take on roles within the meeting and executive
- Increased Confidence – as you take on roles and give speeches
- Learning – with word of the Day and educational tips
- Social – friendships developed during and outside the meeting
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Focus on Learning: Easy, fun, experimental and experiential atmosphere within which one can trust intentions of others. Our peer-based approach = "Learn from people you trust, and have your interest at heart... we are committed learners who create a risk-free, fun, positive learning environment."
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Specific Feedback: In our learning laboratory, we strive to give high value, specific feedback and coaching in a light-hearted, fun style. You select the ideas to use and grow at your own pace. Instead of suggesting how you can improve, we offer just ideas from which you can pick and choose.
- Flexibility: We experiment with varying meeting styles and structures from highly structured and formal to loose flowing and jockular. We experiment and innovate, playfully trying out new ideas in a setting where the only result that matters is personal growth, not our paycheck. Understanding that we can get called on at work to present with little or no preparation, we exercise both ends of the preparation spectrum - prepared and off-the-cuff.
- Find YOUR Voice: peel away your self-consciousness and fear, at your perfect pace, to find your authentic voice. Become the mouse that roared...
- Practicality: With busy schedules and working downtown, a lunchtime meeting can be the most convenient investment that maximizes work-life balance among you, work, and family.
- FUN: "It's FUN to learn when we learn to have FUN!" A relaxed, humorous environment helps us to expand our creativity, retain information and improve performance. It makes us open to taking risks. Our social events let us mingle, connect and have fun.
Join us for a positive and productive learning experience.
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During the summer, we meet weekly, alternating locations with Club Interaction.