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Slack Community – a New Way to Connect with Toastmasters from Across the World

If you’re in the market for a new way to engage with your club, your District, or Toastmasters from across the globe – sign-up to join the Toastmasters Slack Community today and connect with Toastmasters like never before.

What is Slack?

Slack is a messaging platform built for teams to discuss activities, collaborate on projects, and stay connected from anywhere in the world. Discussions are organized into #channels that you can search.

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Download Slack Here

Who is this Community for?

If you’re looking for a place to…

  • ask quick questions from a broad audience…
  • share a cool story…
  • Learn about new ways to communicate and collaborate with your club…
  • Try something different.

As long as you’re a current Toastmaster, you are welcome to join!

What is the Slack Community for?

The objective is to create a network of Toastmasters who enjoy open discussion and sharing their knowledge and experience.  Stop by to discuss the ongoing challenges and successes of your club, learn new tricks and share your own favorite resources.

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Additionally, this community is a support group for those interested in adopting Slack (or any other SAAS such as Free2Host, WordPress for Toastmasters) to modernize their club operations. Get support- give support.

If you’re looking for something in between social media and email, please sign-up today!

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Radio ads

Beginning May 1, 2017 and continuing for the whole month, you may hear a toastmasters radio ad in the rural areas of District 64 and Winnipeg. Check out these stations between 6 and 9 am, drive time! You can thank the Carillon Club’s PR team under the leadership of Mike Poirier for this initiative!

Mix 96 (96.7) Steinbach and most of Winnipeg
CJRB 1220 Brandon
Mix 96.5 Portage
Q104 Kenora
The Eagle 93.5 (Pembina Valley)

Let us know if you hear an ad. We hope they help you to build membership. Ask your guests where they heard about Toastmasters. If you are one of our rural clubs, you have received an email with directions about how to participate.

May and June are Toastmasters Beat the Clock membership contest months. Add five new paid members in May and June and win a prize from Toastmasters International. The prize is a rare banner ribbon and a 10% discount at the TI online shop.

I dont think I need to tell you why building membership is important, do I?

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Time: Do You Have Enough?

Are you aiming to earn a DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster Award)? If so, read on.

Are you aware of the requirements? If so, read on. If not go here:
Application for DTM

How close are you to reaching it? How long do you estimate it will take? One of the requirements takes 12 months to complete and that is the District service (Area Director, for example). Some may take even longer (sponsor a new club or coach a low member existing club).

Here is why Pathways needs to be taken into your long term plans if you have a DTM award as a goal.

The current program is being phased out. CC’s, CL’s, advanced manuals, HPL manuals, all will become passé. They are not simply being updated – they are being replaced with a vibrant, integrated and modern program. The two programs will run at the same time for two years past the day the last region begins Pathways. For District 64 that means you have as little as 2 years, 10 months (depending how it goes in the preceding regions) to finish your goals in the current program. So far as we know, the only projects that carry over are District service, 12 continuous months in a club officer role, club sponsor/mentor/coach, Speechcraft and Youth Leadership Coordinators.

What does this mean to your goal to earn a DTM? It means if you haven’t completed your District service requirement your options are becoming limited. It means if you haven’t completed the sponsor/mentor/coach requirement, time is running out. How do you get involved? Ask your VPE.

By the way, once it’s here, all your new members will only have Pathways. Of course, you could just put aside whatever manuals you are working on and join them! It is so exciting, you may want to do just that.

In the meantime, keep learning from the program we have and grow your communication and leadership skills. As always in Toastmasters, the choice of how much you learn and how far you go is entirely up to you!

More questions? Watch the videos here. Check out the Pathways FAQ’s.

If time management is an issue, please check back in these blog posts and refer to Glenn Watt’s blog on that very topic!

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Time Management ~ by Glenn Watt

On January 14, 2017, member Glenn Watt’s TLI presentation was an overview of the best research on how to achieve goals. Here is a summary:

Vision, Goal Setting, and Goal Planning

Vision creation
– What would I like my day to be like in 5, 10, 15 years
– List of 20 huge crazy goals
– What will people say at my funeral

The parts of goals
– Why
– Asking why three times
– The emotional why
– How
– Routines
– Goal properties
– When
– Who
– What
Lead and Lag Measure
Outcome goals Vs Performance goals

Goal planning
Unpacking Goals
– Project Milestones
– monthly
– weekly

Scheduling
– Daily
– Weekly
– Monthly
– 3 months

Daily schedule
– Urgent vs important
– Control vs responsibility
– Routine vs goal