Over 1,000 Major Organizations Agree



More than 1,000 major organizations do and have sponsored in-house Toastmasters Clubs as communication training workshops for their employees. These organizations include corporations, government agencies, military forces, nonprofit associations, educational institutions, churches, etc.. The following is a partial list:


Corporations


Acxiom
Aetna Life and Casualty
Agilent Technologies
Alcoa
American Airlines
American Express
Abbott Laboratories
Alcatel
Allergan
American Family Insurance
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Apple Inc.
Arthur Andersen & Company
AT&T
Australian Taxation Office
Automatic Data Processing
Avery Dennison
Bank of America
Bank of Hawaii
Barnett Bank
Basic American Foods
Baxter Health Care
Bayer Corp.
Bechtel Corporation
Bell Atlantic
Bell Helicopter
Bendix Corp.
Benguet Corp.
Black & Veatch
Blue Cross / Blue Shield
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.
BMW
Boeing
Bose Corp.
Bovis Lend Lease, Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Brown & Root
Canada Post
Caterpillar Corp.
Ceridian
Charles Schwab & Co.
Chevron
Cisco
Citicorp
CNA Insurance
Coca-Cola Co.
Conoco, Inc.
Coopers & Lybrand
Dale Electronics
Dataquest
Dell
Deloitte & Touche
Delta Airlines
Delta Faucet
Devry Institute of Technology
Digital Equipment Corp.
Dow Chemical
Dresser Industries
Dun & Bradstreet
Dupont
E-systems
Eastman Kodak
EDS
Eli Lilly & Co.
Ernst & Young
Exxon
Fannie Mae
Farmers Insurance
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank
Fisher-Price
Fluor
Geico
General Dynamics
General Mills, Inc.
General Motors
Georgia Pacific
Giant Food, Inc.
Girl Scouts of America
Google
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Great West Life
GTE Corp.
Hallmark Cards
Hartford Insurance
HDR Engineering, Inc.
Hercules, Inc.
Hewlett Packard
Hitachi America
Hoechst Celanese
Home Shopping Network
Honeywell
Hong Kong Bank
Hughes Aircraft
IBM
Intel Corp.
Intergraph Corp.
International Paper
ITT Hartford
Jacobs Engineering
Johnson & Higgins
JPMorgan Chase
Kaiser Permanente
Kemper National Insurance
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
Kennedy Space Center
KeyCorp
Kinkos Corporate Headquarters
Knight-Ridder Information
KPMG
Kraft General Foods
Kroger
Lear Corporation
Liberty Mutual
Litton Industries
Lockheed Martin
London Life Insurance
Loral
Magnavox
Mail Boxes, Etc.
Marconi Aerospace
Marriott International
Marsh & McLennan
Martin Marietta
Mastercard International
MBNA Corporation
McDonnell Douglas
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Measurex Corp.
Merrill Lynch
Microsoft Corp.
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Measurex Corp.
Merrill Lynch
Microsoft Corp.
Mobil Oil
Motorola
Murphy Oil Corporation
Nalco Chemical Co.
Nationwide Insurance
National Semiconductor
Nestle, USA
Nestle, Thailand
New York Life
Northern Telecom
Northrop
Northwestern Airlines
Noxia
Pacific Century Financial Corporation
Paramax
Paychex, Inc.
Pfizer
Pitney Bowes
PPG Industries
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Insurance
Quaker Oats Corp.
Qualcomm
Raychem Corp.
Raytheon Co.
Reuters
Rhino Entertainment
Rockwell International
Rodale Press
Royal Insurance
Rubbermaid, Inc.
Safeco Insurance
San Miguel Corp.
Sandoz, Inc.
Sara Lee Corporation
Scripps Research Institute
Shell Oil
Sprint
Staples
Starbucks
State Farm Insurance
Steelcase, Inc.
Stone & Webster Engineering
Storage Technology
Sun Microsystems
Supervalu, Inc.
Sverdrup Corp.
Target Stores
Telecom Australia
Texas Instruments
Travelers Insurance
Tropicana Products
TRW
Unisys Corp.
United Airlines
United States Postal Service
USAA
USF&G Insurance
Walt Disney Co.
Warner Bros. Studios
Westinghouse
Worldspan
Xerox
Yahoo!
3M Co.


U.S. Government


Atomic Energy Commission
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Defense Mapping Agency
Dept. of Agriculture
Dept. of Commerce
Dept. of Defense
Dept. of Economic & Employment Dev.
Dept. of Employee Services
Dept. of Energy
Dept. of Health and Human Services
Dept. of HUD
Dept. of the Interior
Dept. of Justice
Dept. of Labor
Dept. of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Co.
Food & Drug Administration
General Services Administration
Internal Revenue Service
NASA
National Park Service
The Pentagon
Social Security Administration
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Customs
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Navy
U.S. Patent Office
U.S. Treasury Dept.
Unicef
Veterans Administration


City and State


Austin/Travis County
Bonneville Power Administration
CA Dept. of Toxic Substance Control
California Public Utilities Commission
City of Atlanta
City of Chesapeake
City of Ft. Worth
City of Honolulu
City of Mesa
City of San Francisco
City of Tacoma
City of Charlotte
Colorado State Dept. of Highways
Columbus Health Dept.
Connnecticut Ofc. of State Comptroller
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Florida Dept. of Transportation
Georgia Dept. of Labor
Indiana Dept. of Transportation
Lincoln Fire Dept.
Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power
Louisiana Sewage & Water Board
Massachusetts Gov. Land Bank
Minnesota Dept. of Transportation
Nebraska Dept. of Roads
New York City Housing Authority
Office of Illinois Attorney General
Oklahoma Insurance Dept.
Oregon Dept. of Transportation
Oregon State Revenue Dept.
Pennsylvania Dept. of Education
St. Louis County
State of Michigan
Texas State Auditor
Virginia Beach Social Services


Educational Institutions


Alabama A&M University
Australian National University
Carnegie Mellon University
Kansas University
McGeorge School of Law
Northwestern University
Simon Fraser University
Texas A&M
Thunderbird
UCLA Grad. School of Mgmt.
Univ. of Texas Grad. School of Bus.
Universidad de San Miguel
University of Canterbury
University of Hong Kong
University of Maryland-
Baltimore County Chapter
University of New Brunswick
Wake Forest University
Washington Saturday College


The reason the above corporations, community groups, universities, associations, and government agencies have used Toastmasters training is simple, they realize that success depends on communication. Employees face an endless exchange of ideas, messages, and information as they deal with one another and with customers, day after day. How well they communicate can determine whether a company quickly grows into an industry leader or joins thousands of other businesses mired in mediocrity.



Toastmasters provides the tools that enable employees to become effective communicators and leaders all at a very low cost.



Toastmasters training helps employees:



sp arrowgive better sales presentations
arrowhone their management skills
arrowwork better with fellow employees
arroweffectively develop and present ideas
arrowoffer constructive criticism
arrowaccept criticism more objectively


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