JEDDAH: Mobily has established the first Toastmasters club verified by the Toastmasters International Organization in the US.

The new club in the Eastern Province operates under the name: “Mobily — Toastmaters Eastern Club with membership No. (4901501). It will be constituted from 36 employees from Eastern Province.

The first successful meeting was held recently for all club members.

“Toastmasters International” is considered a non-profitable and educational organization aiming to developing and training the individuals to become leaders in their fields and having skills in the art of public speaking and leadership, through innovative methods and modern educational means to provide them a supportive and positive environment allowing its members the opportunity to develop their skills and refine their expertise and boost their self-confidence in the art of  telling stories and share others with their experiences, enhance the art of listening to others and  developing pre-planning and leadership skills.

Faiz Awadh, chief human resource offcier at Mobily, said: “We believe that our human resource is our cornerstone in growth. Therefore, we are keen to establish the knowledge sharing culture among our employees, complying with Toastmasters International Organization.”

He said: “Mobily is working to circulate this constructive initiative to become as the main culture among all employees and to be as a motivation for their participation. Moreover this initiative will be circulated to cover the rest of the company’s offices and showrooms spread all over the Kingdom, in line with the Mobily’s visions and efforts to develop the cadres skills through the implementation of developed training programs and courses.”

The Mobily-Toastmasters club is the first of its kind in the telecom companies in the Kingdom. It is one of the company’s programs aiming at developing the professional skills of employees to get them to the highest levels of professionalism at work.

This comes as part of its ongoing quest to create a better working environment and to encourage a culture of innovation through knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences among employees.