Asia-Pacific Institute of management has started Toastmasters club for its PGDM students in the Jasola Campus, New Delhi. The Asia-Pacific Institute of Management Toastmasters Club (APIM TMC) is a part of Toastmasters International, California.

In today's Competitive world effective communication skills are crucial to success of an individual. The person with strong communication skills has a clear advantage over tongue-tied colleagues -especially in a competitive job market. With the aim of developing effective communication skills among its students, the Asia-Pacific Institute of Management Toastmasters Club was started.

A Toastmasters club is a "learn-by-doing" workshop in which members hone their skills in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere. The APIM TMC meets twice in a month. Till now they have successfully organized 14 meetings. It is a two hours long meeting, where members give prepared speeches, impromptu speeches, presentations and learn leadership skills by fulfilling various roles in the meeting. As it is a college club its membership is restricted only to the students, faculty and staff of the AIM. At present there are25 members .

The students joining the Toastmasters club learn communication skills by working in the Communication Program manual, a series of 10 speaking assignments designed to instill a basic foundation in public speaking. When finished with the first speech manual, members can select from among 15 advanced manuals to develop speaking skills that are geared to specific interests.

It will also gives the members opportunities to practice leadership skills by working in the Competent Leadership manual and the High Performance Leadership program, as well as serving as leaders at various organizational levels.

Senior members from other toastmasters clubs in and around Delhi are also invited to attend the meetings. In the previous meeting Ms.Poonam Jain, Assistant Lieutenant Governor Marketing, Rishikant Upadhaiya, VP EDU ,IBM TM, Akshita Agarwal, VP EDU, South Delhi TM attended the meeting.

This motivates and guides the students to perform their speeches.

There is no instructor in a Toastmasters club. Instead, members evaluate one another's oral presentations and leadership activities. The effectiveness of this simple learning formula is evidenced by the thousands of corporations around the world that sponsor in-house Toastmasters clubs like Adobe, TCS and IBM etc.

For further details you can visit the official website of Toastmasters international at -www.toastmasters.org