by Jenny Taylor
An effective leader is one of the greatest assets a company can have. Leaders are expected to have a knowledge of both business skills and human skills to be able to develop and maintain business plans, strategies, to set goals, and
develop the vision and mission statements by which the company should run, while at the same time also motivating and giving feedback to employees, mentoring, facilitating the building of teams, dealing with conflict situations, and other human dynamics that are the reality in any workforce.
Luckily, these skills can be learned. Toastmasters
International has developed several Leadership manuals
that can help members to improve many aspects of their
leadership skills.
These manuals can be presented by interested toastmasters members at Club meetings, as an Educational Session of
15-20 minutes. As such they can be of immense benefit to the Club in general, and to the member presenting the
manual.
Presenting a Leadership Manual also counts towards the Competent Leader (CL) qualification. The various leadership manuals are:
If you are interested in presenting a Leadership Manual, or would like to find out more information about the Competent Leader qualification, please contact us. back to articles