When I was at Oracle we were fortunate to have 2 Toastmasters chapters.  Before I attended, I had some vague awareness of toastmasters as a public speaking organization,.  When I attended what really impressed me was how well run the meetings were.  

One of the downsides of this working from home era, is that have you can loose the face to face interaction skills.  However well I think I might run a meeting, it is very important that as we build the organization we all get good at face to face interaction: meeting new people, introducing yourself, paying attention to the speaker, giving constructive feedback, taking and yielding the floor. 

When you are young, I think we imagine great things get done by rouge individuals acting alone.  As you move through life you realise that most things get achieved because they got written down, assigned, followed up on, reported back on, until they got done.  A human structure conducted through well organized meetings.  

As we move through life we spend way too long in poorly organized meetings.  We only hear noise and we forget that there is also music. 

At the London Business School Toastmasters club we got to share the room with brilliant people from all over the world, from all different disciplines, as we hone the vanishing art of face to face human interaction.