Theme meetings are fun – for the club, the Toastmaster and our guests.
This year, to celebrate Toastmasters’ 95th anniversary, we decided to host
themed Open Houses throughout the month of October. We wanted to
encourage guests to attend and to keep on building up our great club.
We brainstormed ideas to make coming to a Toastmasters meetings easier.
At the Fall Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) on Saturday October 26, Joanne McDowall delivered a fabulous presentation on club coaching. “Club Coach – the Agent of Change”. Joanne outlined pretty much everything you need to know about, well, being a club coach. Since I had already committed to writing an article about that topic for the District blog, I decided to embrace the opportunity to share my experience as a club coach so far this year.
A challenge was given to the Division Directors, of which I was one, and that was to find a potential new club for their Divisions.
The process of starting a new club has taught me many things. Ask for help, stay positive. Ask for more help. It’s truly amazing, as many of you know, if you ask for help in anything at Toastmasters, toasties will step up. And that has certainly been the case with my startup journey. Many times I’ve thought about giving up, and each time a member of the district stepped up with generous guidance.
Looking for a new club? Take a look at CPA Toastmasters this month
by Jennifer Lusby
Ahh, April in Winnipeg. Normally a time for rejuvenation, for spring cleaning, and for starting to plan all of the fun activities you’re going to do (outside) this summer. Be it patio hopping in town or getting out of town, there are so many things to do in such a short amount of time it’s easy to see why one of the first things to go are regular Toastmasters meetings.
But I’m here to tell you that is NOT a good plan!