CC, CL, AL, ALB What Do Those Letters Mean?

When you obtain your CC award you receive a certificate and on request a letter to your employer confirming your achievement. Afterwards communications from the Toastmasters International HQ in the USA will address you with the letters after your name.

Your club website should list you with the letters after your name. If you are a President or VPE or have any committee role or are helping out and compile an agenda the letters should be after the speakers and VIP guests such as visiting GE.

Toastmasters Awards Letters

CL - (or CTM) Competent Leader - has completed projects for managing a group (timing a meeting etc).

CC - Competent Communicator - has completed ten speeches from the first speaker's manual, each project covering learning and practising subject matter, structure, spoken language text, voice projection and variety, body language, use of varied props and visuals, persuasiveness, motivation.

AL Advanced Leader - further projects completed

ALS  Silver - Further projects

ATMS Silver (Two more speech books, each containing five speech projects)

Advanced Leader Silver, later renamed Advanced Toastmaster Silver

ALB Advanced Leader Bronze

ATMG Advanced Leader Gold

C stands for Competent or Communicator
A stands for Advanced
TM stand for Toastmaster
B stands for Bronze
S stands for Silver
G stands for Gold
L stands for Leader

For more details see Toastmasters International website.

Other Abbreviation using Initial Letters
(Acronyms are initial letters making up a new word, a name or noun, for example NATO.)
HQ head quarters
VIP very important person

Angela Lansbury BA Hons CL ASG