There are many organizations that offer training and coaching to individuals who want to become professional speakers. These programs are good however they are very expensive, require monthly fees to attend meetings and when the program is over and if you don’t qualify for membership, you are left out in the cold looking in.
Keystone Speakers will offer the knowledge, training and support you need, on an ongoing basis, all within Toastmasters. There is no manual, program or direction as to how to successfully apply and be awarded the Accredited Speaker designation. Together, we will develop the tools and skills we need to qualify for the Accredited Speaker designation.
This will be a very different Toastmasters Club. In order to apply for the Accredited Speaker designation you need you become a world class keynote speaker. Imagine a club where we learn how to construct a world class keynote, have the opportunity to practise, get professional evaluations and coaching. Imagine attending a full day workshop, conducted by an Accredited Speaker just for club members,
Interested in becoming an Accredited Speaker? Come to our information meeting on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 6:30 at the Winnipeg Public Library, Millennium Branch (downtown) to learn more. If you have any questions, call Michael Bayer at 204-237-9257.
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Jennet Pidgeon: On behalf of Hazel Birt PRO

Love Toastmasters?  Love Books?
Calling all book-loving Toastmasters! Are you looking for an advanced club that combines Toastmasters with discussing a book of the month? Come and visit Talking Books Toastmasters Saturday, September 12 at 12:30 at Lion’s Place 610 Portage Avenue. We will be discussing Ashes to Dust, but please join us even if you have not read the book.

For more info call Catriona at 204-631-3337 or email cyounger@rrc.ca or visit http://talkingbooks.toastmastersclubs.org
 

Did your club struggle with low membership last year?  You aren’t alone!  Perhaps your struggle was to reach the goal of 20 members (“charter strength”).  Maybe you had to add 5 members to be Distinguished.  It may be your club struggled to stay at the minimum number of 8, just avoiding suspension.  Let’s not worry about that again! Steve Chen, newly elected International Director (Region 9) offered us this little poem:

One true Toastmaster was feeling blue, met with a colleague and then there were two.              Two earnest members each enrolled one more, doubling their numbers and then there were four.                                                                                                                                                                 Four gun-ho members just could not wait, ’til each won another and then there were eight.         Eight excited members signed up sixteen more, in another sixteen verses there will be 1,024!

If each member in your club brought in one more person by the end of September, you would be set up for a great year, with all your members feeling less stress and having more success!

C.I Toastmasters is a club targeted at helping new immigrants to Manitoba enjoy the benefits of Toastmasters.  They will be holding a Garage and Bake Sale on:

Tuesday August 25 – 12-1 pm

Training Room #1

Success Skills Centre, 12th Floor, 330 Portage Avenue

Call 204-975-5111 for more information.

Poster: Toastmasters- garage sale poster-3

Are you looking forward to learning about the #ScienceOfSpeaking on Saturday September 19?  Check out the Fall Rally site for the latest info.

Our program includes dynamic speakers from both within Toastmasters, and experienced scientific professionals from the National Research Council!

Catherine Keller, DTM

Learn how the Toastmasters Competent Communicator manual has been scientifically developed to help people build and retain speaking skills

Dr. Scott King, Ph. D – Team Lead, Medical Devices – National Research Council

Dr. King will share strategies for selling your technical skills to a potential client or business partner

Dr. Emma Frost, DTM – CanLead

Dr. Frost will teach you about memory, and how memories are formed and retained in the brain.

Dr. Lorenzo (Larry) Leonardi, National Research Council will be travelling from Ottawa to share information on skills required to supervise staff located in various provinces.  As NRC is located across Canada, skills developed under the Toastmasters Leadership track are very valuable.

All this and lunch for only $25.  Register today!