Why Join Mercury?

Many of our first-time guests say that they are surprised how well organised our meetings are. And this seems to imply that we all invest a lot of energy.

We do! All the more, one of the findings of a survey amongst our members fascinates me.

We asked our members for three words describing their Mercury experience. We did not make any suggestions which words to choose, nor was it a multiple choice question.

The vast majority of our members took part in the survey, and there is an amazing tie amongst the top three places:

1st place (60%): Fun!

2nd place (20% each): Challenging, inspiring, entertaining, supportive, and a good place for socialising

3rd place (15%): A good training platform

The many other words provided by our members support this picture, although they are of a more individual nature and therefore can't be considered to be synonyms of the above.

A big Thank You to the members for participating in the survey... to the two Vice Presidents Education who conducted the survey and compiled its results... to all Board members for investing so much for all of us... and, finally... to Mercury for being Mercury!

Curious?

Be our guest � come along and see how it works: enjoy our supportive atmosphere � you won't regret it. Follow this link to our current online agenda, stating when and where our next meeting will take place.

Mercury Toastmasters welcomes you! We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian club within the Toastmasters International network. Our members share the vision of achieving better communication and leadership skills through personal growth with nearly 220,000 Toastmasters in 11,300 clubs worldwide.

External links to third party content are provided for your convenience. At the time of writing, we believe that both the external content itself and referencing it from here complies with applicable law. Neither Mercury Toastmasters nor the author of this text shall be liable for the content of referenced third party pages. If you believe that the above text or the referenced content infringes any applicable law, please contact us. The Toastmasters logo as well as the names "Toastmasters" and "Toastmasters International" are owned by Toastmasters International. All other content: Copyright (c) by Mercury Toastmasters, Berlin, Germany. All rights reserved.

It's human to have habits which we are not aware of. Actually, not being aware of many aspects of our daily lives is essential for our survival. If humans had to think about how to handle a glass of water or the letterbox then life would be somewhat slow and exhausting.

But there's a downside to this. We can't consider aspects which we are not aware of. For example, when people in our environment act or react in certain ways we tend to think that the cause for this must be related to them, simply because that's what our perception suggests.

Unfortunately, most of the time it's also related to us...

At Mercury, you'll receive valuable personal feedback. If you give a prepared speech, your personal evaluator will give you an oral and a written evaluation with respect to your personal as well as the speech project's objectives. You will also receive individual feedack from most of the other listeners. Feedback will always be open and constructive.

You wouldn't be the first person on earth who wonders how you would judge your own performance, though... Therefore, Mercury is proud to provide its members with professional video feedback. A few days after our meetings speakers and evaluators can watch themselves on videos which we upload to a protected Internet storage.


The objective of the Toastmasters format is to learn to improve the effectiveness of communication. In the field of speech delivery, we specifically work on the improvement of our behaviour as presenters and therefore video feedback is highly valuable. For example, we often perceive our pacing, our voice and our body language differently to how it comes across. Qualified evaluations from club members help us to become more aware of what we really did during our performances, and video feedback is a forther step towards the awareness we strive for. In other words it helps us even more to align our self-perception to the impression we give to others.

At Mercury Toastmasters, your videos stay online and are linked to your personal record which we keep in our protected online member area. This allows you to track your progress and once again discuss your performance with your evaluator after your performance.

Be our guest � come along and see how it works: enjoy our supportive atmosphere � you won't regret it. Follow this link to our current online agenda, stating when and where our next meeting will take place.

Mercury Toastmasters welcomes you! We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian club within the Toastmasters International network. Our members share the vision of achieving better communication and leadership skills through personal growth with nearly 220,000 Toastmasters in 11,300 clubs worldwide.

External links to third party content are provided for your convenience. At the time of writing, we believe that both the external content itself and referencing it from here complies with applicable law. Neither Mercury Toastmasters nor the author of this text shall be liable for the content of referenced third party pages. If you believe that the above text or the referenced content infringes any applicable law, please contact us. The Toastmasters logo as well as the names "Toastmasters" and "Toastmasters International" are owned by Toastmasters International. All other content: Copyright (c) by Mercury Toastmasters, Berlin, Germany. All rights reserved.

Several speakers who give either prepared or impromptu speeches, evaluators, presenters and other functionaries carry out our meetings.

But while many of our German guests say that they aren't sure whether they would be able to give a speech at the level they have experienced at our meetings, many of our German members see it differently:

It's much safer to give a prepared speech than to be the main presenter for the evening, or give an impromptu speech, or even a qualified evaluation of a speech. The reason is that you can rehearse all aspects of your prepared speech beforehand. This of course includes looking up the meaning and pronounciation of any words you're not sure about, in order to express exactly what you mean. And you won't forget these words quickly!

Mercury Toastmasters is not a language school. But we're an excellent training platform for practising your English and getting straightforward but friendly feedback on it! At each meeting, our Grammarian looks for good and not so good use of language. And if you wish, a mentor will help you with your first speech projects.

Read in this German Spiegel Online article how effective it is to improve your language skills under real life circumstances. With our mixture of native and non-native english speakers, and the wide variety of meeting roles, we're an excellent platform from which to improve your English.

Be our guest � come and see how it works, and enjoy our supportive atmosphere � you won't regret it. Follow this link to our current online agenda, stating when and where our next meeting will take place.

Mercury Toastmasters welcomes you! We're a nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonsectarian club within the Toastmasters International network. Our members share the vision of achieving better communication and leadership skills through personal growth with nearly 220,000 Toastmasters in 11,300 clubs worldwide.

External links to third party content are provided for your convenience. At the time of writing, we believe that both the external content itself and referencing it from here complies with applicable law. Neither Mercury Toastmasters nor the author of this text shall be liable for the content of referenced third party pages. If you believe that the above text or the referenced content infringes any applicable law, please contact us. The Toastmasters logo as well as the names "Toastmasters" and "Toastmasters International" are owned by Toastmasters International. All other content: Copyright (c) by Mercury Toastmasters, Berlin, Germany. All rights reserved.