It’s that time of year to reflect upon where you have been, and more importantly where you are going. In assessing all of your life goals, be sure to include Toastmasters goals as well. For example: Completing new advanced speech manual Preparing to become an officer for your club Finishing your Competent Communicator Visiting two […]
Preparation and Practice are essential elements to any successful Toastmasters speech. Here is a quick guide in a timeline fashion to help you provide yourself enough time to both create the ideas for your speech, as well as to give you ample practice. Outline Stage – 7 to 10 Days Before This first step is […]
It was a busy week for this temporary ex-pat Toastmaster in Dublin Ireland. I had a great visit with Area Governor Niamh Gourlay’s home club on Thursday – Tara Toastmasters in Stillorgan Park. Stillorgan Park is a suburb about 6 miles south of Dublin. President Robert Dunne and his club members made me feel very […]
What to do when I am far away from home? Away from my wife and two boys. Away from my friends. Away from my home Toastmasters’ club. I recently started a new career with an Irish company, and my beginning months require me to work and train for many weeks in the dynamic and lyrical […]
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Last Saturday July 16, the biannual Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) was held, with hundreds of participants from all over the greater Denver area. Regional advisor Brenda Smull, DTM led off the event as keynote speaker with a rousing and inspirational speech about how club officers are the ‘secret sauce’ that make the whole ‘Big Mac’ […]
Besides the awards, and the new officer elections, we had a very busy meeting on Thursday June 23. We had three guests, Bob and Adele Lalich, and Sam Jarris. Thank you for attending! We hope you make another meeting, and consider joining our club. Members attending were Eric Dunham, Joanna Knott, Kaitlyn Wolf, Bruce Ekins, […]
I couldn’t have imagined a better outcome to my year serving Parker Toastmasters as its President. At tonight’s meeting I was proud to speak about how far the club has come along in the last three years. This year we had unprecedented participation and enthusiasm by our officers and members. Our club had speech contests […]
Our club is on the verge of achieving a lofty goal – President’s Distinguished Club Status. This is the pinnacle of club achievement for Toastmasters’ International, and it is due to the great efforts of each and every one of you that we are close to this goal. DCP as a benchmark is not perfect […]
Parker’s other Toastmasters club is sponsoring a very good seminar Monday night that you should attend. Part 1: Characteristics of Effective Leadership FREE Monday, June 20 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm Location: Parker Library 10851 S. Crossroads Drive Parker, Colorado It’s objective: Define the qualities that determine effective leaders, identify your own leadership style, and learn […]
