15 Dec

Start 2025 with us!

As the year comes to an end, we would like to extend our warmest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. We hope that the new year brings you joy, happiness, and success in all your endeavors. We also invite you to visit the BASF Toastmasters club in 2025 to enhance your public speaking skills.

The club meetings are a great way to meet new people, learn new skills, and have fun. So why not join us on our first meeting on January 13, 2025 and see what we’re all about? And if you miss this one no worries, we meet every 2nd and 4th Monday each month.

21 Nov

Discover Winter Magic with Toastmasters in Ludwigshafen

Are you ready to embrace the warmth and togetherness of the winter season? Join us for a series of delightful and cozy winter activities. We hold our regular meetings in a hybrid format right on site at BASF, offering the perfect blend of in-person and virtual interaction. In 2024, we will have a select few meetings, ensuring each one is intimate and full of engaging experiences.

Our meetings are known for their supportive and welcoming atmosphere, where members come together to improve their public speaking and leadership skills. This winter, we’re adding a special touch to our gatherings with a Season’s Special White Elephant Gift Exchange — a fun and festive way to share laughter and unique gifts.

But that’s not all! We also have a Winter Market Get-Together planned, complete with hot mulled wine to keep you warm and spirited. It’s a fantastic opportunity for both guests and members to mingle and connect in a relaxed setting.

If you’re new to Toastmasters, this is the perfect chance to get to know our Club at BASF. Come experience the magic of winter with us and see how we can help you grow and thrive!

16 May

Turn up the Heat on Your Public Speaking Skills

Are you ready to turn up the heat on your public speaking skills? Look no further than BASF Toastmasters this May and June! Here’s why:

  • May: The Month of Blooming Confidence
    Just like spring flowers, your confidence blossoms in May. Stand tall, embrace the podium, and watch your fears wilt away.
    Bonus: If you stumble, blame it on the pollen. It’s a natural excuse!
  • June: The Month of Sun-Kissed Eloquence
    Longer days mean more time to practice. Imagine the sun cheering you on during your speeches!
    Plus, sunscreen doubles as a speech timer. Apply SPF 30, and you’ve got a 30-minute talk.
  • The BASF Toastmasters Secret Ingredient: Laughter
    The secret ingredient of laughter at a Toastmasters Club meeting is its power to relieve stress, boost engagement, and enhance creativity and collaboration1. It’s like adding a pinch of humor to every speech!

So, join us at BASF Toastmasters this May and June. Remember, the only thing more powerful than a well-crafted speech is a good punchline!

03 Apr

Spring is coming – meet Florian Bay in April

On 24 April 2023 Mr Florian Bay (DTM and Immediate Past District 91 Director) will give a speech at our Toastmasters meeting. We will meet at BASF site Ludwigshafen in building Q920/Room B186 and enable your participation also online via MS-Teams. As usual we will have at 17:45 a Meet and Greet and start the official meeting on time at 18:00. Please notice, that external visitors can only participate online via MS-Teams.

04 Jan

Our kick-off meeting 2023

Dear Toastmasters and Guests

All the best for the New Year 2023! May this year be your personal BASF-Toastmasters Year  with a lot of small and big improvements of your communication skills!
Please be cordially invited to our 1st BASF-Toastmasters hybrid meeting in 2023. We will meet on Monday, 9th January 2023 at BASF site Ludwigshafen in building J660/Room 136 and enable your participation also online (hybrid meeting).

The subject of the evening is the preview of the year ahead. What is your personal goal and how can BASF-Toastmasters support you to reach this goal?
See it as a homework to be done until next Monday 😊

There are also many roles to be filled – please feel free to take one of the roles to run a smooth and enjoyable meeting. If you want you can give your presentation in German as well. Please contact us in case you are an external visitor or have any other questions.

16 Jul

26 July: Our 1st offline meeting in 2021

Dear BASF Toastmasters and Guests

You are cordially invited to our next Toastmasters meeting on 26 July 2021. Please do join us for the “Meet and Greet” session at 17:45. The meeting itself will start at 18:00.
Please check the agenda on EasySpeak . There are still several roles left. Grab them as soon as you can!
If you are interested in joining the meeting online by Skype please let us know to get the access code. We look forward to welcoming you and spending a wonderful, entertaining and productive evening together. Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
You are welcome to join the meeting as an external visitor, please take a look at the meeting information. 

Coronavirus: Precautionary measures at Ludwigshafen site

  • names of participants will be kept to identify possible contacts in the event of a COVID-19 infection
  • wear a medical or FFP2 face mask when entering the building
  • if the meeting room doesn’t allow a distance of >1,5m to each other a face mask is mandatory
07 Jan

BASF Toastmasters in 2014

Dear colleagues and Toastmasters,

best wishes for 2014! Perhaps one of your New Year’s resolutions is to improve your communication skills? Well, you will have to be patient until the end of January because our first meeting this year will be on Monday 01/27.

Everyone is welcome and will participate actively e.g. in Table Topics, presenting the joke of the evening or giving valuable feedback. As a Toastmaster you can proceed in the competent communication program by presenting a prepared speech.

As we want to become a regualar Toastmasters Club: Please spread the word by forwarding this message. Let us know if you need some hardcopies of flyers or material to promote our club to your fellow colleagues.

19 Sep

BASF Toastmasters starts successfully

On Sep 12th 2013 the Toastmasters at The Chemical Company had the very first meeting. With strong support of Mannheim’s Toastmasters the organizers were able to set up a full agenda. In a positive and friendly atmosphere people who are new to Toastmasters could experience the different parts of a Toastmasters’ evening.

By answering the question “Which item, object or matter has played an important role to you during the last days?” in our round table everybody could improve his / her speaking skills. Furthermore some of the participants had the opportunity to take part in a table topic session. Simple but striking was the idea of our Table Topic Master: Handing over a coin she asked the participant what happened to him / her in the year of the coinage — interesting and entertainig stories came out.

Hye Jin and Patricia presented different speeches of the manual “Competent Communication”. The audience could listen to the experience when visiting Germany for the first time and finding out that there is so much more to discover than just poets and thinkers. Furthermore we learned how ones posture can influence the self confidence.

BASFToastmasters will continue the series of meetings to start a club at BASF. Everyone is welcome to join and to make the Toastmasters experience.