Month: January 2019

Moments of Truth

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When was the last time your club held a Moments of Truth session? Moments of Truth is an exercise that your club as a whole goes through together to “outline how to create a positive first impression of your club, and recognize and deal with situations critical to club success.”

Officers can review the documents listed on this page https://www.toastmasters.org/resources/moments-of-truth, prepare a speech explaining the exercise, then finish the speech by asking members to complete the worksheet.

Once the worksheets come back in, sit down as a group and review the numbers. Whichever standards scored as the lowest, focus on the 2-3 of the lowest and come up with a plan to enhance and improve those parts of your club.

Idea: Hold your Moments of Truth sessions and receive feedback before June 1. Then pass this feedback to the incoming officer team to provide them with main goal ideas for their incoming year.

2019 Spring Speech Contests

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Officers, it’s that time of year again to begin planning your club speech contest! This year’s contests will be Evaluation and International Speech.

Our District team has created a very detailed site officer teams can utilize in planning their club contests. https://d106tm.org/speech-contests/

After reviewing the details on the D106 site, please do the following:

  1. Send your club’s speech contest date to j.c.simpson242@gmail.com.
  2. Ask all club members to save the date for the Area 3 & 4 Contest – set for March 23, 2019 in Duluth, MN. Contest starts at 10:00 a.m. at Harrison Community Club.
    1. Note to members, if they don’t want to compete in the Area 3 & 4 Contest, they are more than welcome to help as a judge, timer, counter, etc. or simply be an attendee.
    2. RSVP here – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/area-3-4-speech-contest-tickets-57424197320?aff=ebdssbdestsearch 
  3. Save the date for the Division A Contest, set for April 6, 2019.
    1. St. Scholastica – Contest begins at 1 p.m.
    2. This will be a contest with clubs located in the Twin Ports, Hibbing, and Thunder Bay, Ontario.
    3. RSVP here – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/division-a-speech-contest-tickets-57353885014?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
  4. Save the date for the District 106 Spring Conference, set for April 27, 2019. –https://d106tm.org/district-106-2019-spring-conference/

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Pathways: Completing Levels

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As an officer, did you know that processing a member’s level within Pathways is done in two separate areas? Below are the steps listed to fully process pathway completion for Toastmaster members.

  1. Member completes their level detail within Base Camp and submits it to officer team.
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINLU5JbokA
  2. Club officer review and approves the level within Base Camp.
  3. Club officer logs into Club Central through Toastmasters International and submits an Education Award for the completed level of the member.
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7jX1p93Ms