Being a leader, a club officer, or District officer.
How do you motivate Toastmasters Members, and especially Club officers, to get involved in activities outside the club? Activities like Toastmasters Leadership Institutes (TLIs), Area and Division speech contests, District Conferences. This video shares a method that worked well for me.
When faced with some new challenge, have you ever caught yourself saying or thinking "I'm not ready"? What did you do about that? Did you heed that terrified little voice inside screaming "Run Away! Run Away!"? Not me!! This is what I've done to kill the "I'm Not Ready" monster...
Does your Toastmasters club have a vision?
Once upon a time, the Keller Communicators club was struggling. For more than a year, average attendance was 4-6 people per meeting. We had guests visit but most would not return, most would not join the club. David Watkins and I decided the club needed to adhere better to the Toastmasters program, that our informal loosely run meetings just were not sufficient. David was elected Club President, and I was elected Vice President of Education, on the platform of raising our club standards – adding more structure and best practices to the operation of our club.
The result? In the first seven months we recruited 20 new members.
Then I was elected Club President and I had a vision.
I shared “my” vision with our membership to get their refinements, their buy in, to transform it from “my” to “our” vision. Ever since, we’ve had 30+ members and have been a President’s Distinguished Club.
Specifically, the seeds I planted, that our members nurtured and grew into a mighty tree of achievements were...