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!

Toastmasters and guests are invited to attend the Fall Rally on September 19, 2015.  The Science of Speaking is being hosted at the National Research Council.  Leaders of Winnipeg’s scientific community will be our guest speakers.  Come and learn how the communication and leadership skills you are learning at Toastmasters apply to science.

Check out the Fall Rally website for updates and registration info.

When:                                    Saturday, September 19, 2015

Where:                                   National Research Council, 435 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg, MB

Registration Deadline:      September 12, 2015

Cost:                                      $25 (for full day including lunch; Officer training is free

Payment:                              via PayPal (coming soon!), or cheque

Contact:                                Nancy Anderson or 204 771 9867