For the 2009 budget we need to plan out:

        ❑        income
        ❑        expenses

All of our income is membership dues.

We should expect some attrition with some existing members not re-joining.

We should also plan new members … which we have a large potential for if we get more marketing going and start to formalize our sign up process.

We need to have our current bank balance and look at the end of year statement.

We have very few expenses but should allocate some for:

• participation in contests
• officer education
• any build up of a TM library that we want to do

If you have any other items please bring them forward at our Aug-2009 meeting.

So we need a very simple budget and track to it on a bi-monthly basis to see if we are on track.

Next Steps

All exec to give list of items and costs for their recommended needs

        ❑        receipt book
        ❑        CC manuals
        ❑        CL manuals
        ❑        videos
        ❑        welcome packages
        ❑        promotional material
        ❑        Christmas lunch
        ❑        bowling evening
        ❑        prizes for speech completion / progress
        ❑        TM pins
        ❑        box on wheels
        ❑        business cards for TM
        

mail to Asha by 20-Aug-2009

Backup

By 26-Aug-2009 bring 5 to 10 backups for

        ❑ Word and Joke - Daniel
        ❑ Table Topics - Angie
        ❑        Speech Alternative - Sean to bring 2; mike to bring 3, Jeff to bring 2, Angie to bring something.
        

Introductions

        ✓        Send reminder on introductions for box - Mike 14-Aug-2009
        

[Distribute copies of the pledges in advance to the new and current members.]

Inducting Officer: “Fellow Toastmasters, I’m pleased to have the occasion today to induct [number] new members into Operations Orators Toastmasters Club. Individuals come to Toastmasters to improve their communication and leadership skills. We have the opportunity to help them achieve their goals. I ask our new members to come forward and join me at the lectern. Please withhold your applause until the ceremony is completed.”

[Inducting Officer calls each new member forward by name.]

“The mentors for these new members are: [names of mentors] . Please come forward and stand next to your mentees.”

Inducting Officer [to new members]: “ [Address new members by name] , our collective obligation in the Toastmasters Club is to grow and improve ourselves and to share our knowledge and experience with fellow members. We ask you, our new members, to dedicate yourselves to personal growth, to share this great gift with your fellow members, and to help keep this Toastmasters Club strong and dynamic. Please face your fellow members and affirm your membership pledge.”

[Remind new members to read from the script provided.]

New Members’ Pledge: “I, [name]_, in the presence of my fellow members of the Operations Orators Toastmasters Club, make this firm obligation to attend meetings regularly and prepare fully for each assignment, to apply myself to the program outlined in the Toastmasters manuals, to participate actively in club activities, to evaluate others in a positive, constructive manner, to build open, friendly relationships with my fellow members, and to bring other new members into the Club so that they can also gain the benefits of Toastmasters.”

Inducting Officer: “Would all Club members please stand and repeat our Club’s pledge to its new members?

[Remind current members to read from the script provided.]

“We, the members of the Operations Orators Toastmasters Club, pledge to support you in your quest for self-development, to provide you with positive, helpful evaluations, to maintain a friendly, supportive atmosphere, to give you opportunities to help others, and to make your Toastmasters membership a rewarding and fulfilling experience.”

[Inducting officer asks mentors to place a membership pin on each new member and hands each new member a Toastmasters membership certificate. Inducting officer leads applause, then asks new members to return to their seats.]

1. Audience — Who is your (most important) audience?
2. Objectives — What is your objective for this presentation?
3. Problem / Solution — What business problem are you helping to provide a solution for?
4. Evidence — What evidence are you offering to support your solution?
5. Anecdotes — Which anecdotes illustrate your message?
6. Sequencing — In what sequence will you present your evidence?
7. Charts — Which charts will best convey your data?
8. Layouts — What layout will you use for each slide?
9. Stakeholders — Have you addressed the concerns of each stakeholder?
10. Measurement — How will you measure the success of your presentation?

Other review comments:

* When presenting data, pay particular particular attention to what is new or different.
* Drive action. Or in Abela’s words: “What does it allow them to start doing, stop doing, or continue doing that would be difficult or impossible without this information.” (p47)
* Respecting the challenges faced by users. Understand what problems and levers the audience has available to them.
* Consider your audience “type”. How does the audience best absorb information?
* Consider the presentation environment. In what context will the audience be engaging with the information?
* Use different types of data (e.g. statistical, anecdotal). Sometimes specific data points can help focus attention better than an aggregate metric.
* Identify problems, then give people the tools to address the problem. This parallels Abela’s storytelling technique of creating and resolving tension.
* Users before technology. Usability before features. Abela notes: “Presentation and advice and tools have been developed for the benefit of the presenter, not the audience.” (p5)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1845283139/?tag=6mwrt-20

And this advice is great

http://tinyurl.com/mr4qke

Maybe sometime for interested Toastmasters, life coaches, and a wedding DJ to partnership in.

Here’s a thought:

• Website to collect information
• Fee based review of wedding speeches
• Three or more Toastmasters to review
• Additional billing for writing speeches
• All internet based - but could include videos of the speakers to review. YouTube would work if they could manage that.
• Collection is also all internet based.
• Partners could manage communication and scheduling from an internet site.

Let’s talk about it.

1. The Best Lesson I Never Learned
2. Lessons My Children Taught Me
3. When The Student Is Ready, The Teacher Will Appear
4. Unforgetable Mentors
5. The Chatterbox Within Or Ceaseless Internal Monologues
6. My Favorite Kind Of Quiet
7. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
8. Letting Go Or The Language Of Letting Go
9. Why Me, Why This, Why Now
10. Unconditional Living
11. Miracles Or Making Miracles Or Miracles Never Cease
12. Wisdom Of The Ages
13. Real Magic
14. The Magic Of Believing
15. You’ll See It When You Believe It
16. You Can If You Think You Can
17. Abundance Or Abundant Thinking Or Abundant Living
18. First Things First
19. Dancing With Life
20. Prescriptions For Living
21. Living A Logical Life Or The Logistics Of Living
22. You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don’t Want
23. Angels Can Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly
24. Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
25. A Snowy Day
26. Pilgrims’ Pride (Thanksgiving)
27. Boo! Betcha I Scared You Ha! Ha! (Halloween)
28. Homeward Bound
29. A Christmas Story
30. Forgive And Forget
31. Remember When…
32. Pets On Parade
33. Puppy Love
34. Unforgetable Furry Companions
35. Tipping The Scales
36. Optimism - Learned Or Lived
37. Never Give Up
38. Favorite Cartoon Characters
39. If I Were ..(An Appliance, Animal, Car, Whatever), I’d Be..
40. Ideal Jobs We’ve Never Had
41. What I Want To Be When (If) I Grow Up
42. Lessons Learned The Hard Way

Lululemon Bag

These are some things that appear on a LuLuLemon Bag - maybe a theme in there:

• Creativity is maximized when you’re living in the moment.
• Visualize your eventual demise. It can have an amazing effect on how you live in the moment.
• Listen, listen, listen and then ask strategic questions.
• Write down your short- and long-term GOALS four times a year. Two personal, two business and two health goals for the next 2, 5, and 10 years. Goal setting triggers you subconscious computer.
• Do one thing a day that scares you.
• Nature wants us to be mediocre because we have a greater chance to survive and reproduce. Mediocrity is as close to the bottom as it is to the top, and will give you a lousy life.
• Do not use cleaning chemicals on your kitchen counter. Someone will inevitably make a sandwich on your counter.
• Stress is related to 99% of all illness.
• Take various vitamins. You never know what small mineral can eliminate the bottleneck to everlasting health.
• Don’t trust an old age pension will be sufficient.

        ❑        Have a monthly meeting - maybe

        ❑        email bi-weekly to the executive - is everything going OK?

        ✓        Make sure they all got their manuals.

        ❑        Make sure they know what to do.

        ✓        Send them the site password to all of the executive.

Mission Statement

Think about building 9344 mission statement

To move toward a professional level - communication, leadership and … toward a professional level.

Could use moments of truth for this

Roles:

1. vision
2. managing the executive

What is Unique About Our Club?

• noon hour club
• unlimited membership possibility
• regular progress
• some good examples to follow

Delegation

Question: Why not include club standards?

Can leadership in TM impact their life - in work, in home, in community work…

Club Contests

        ❑        Start to plan it now

        ❑        Need to have some in Sep-2009

Fall

* Humorous
* International

Spring

* international
* evaluation

District 60 site

Has discussion board for the various roles on how to deal with problems
Make calendars etc

Club business is handled through a separate logon.

You can get your userid and password emailed to the account on record at the TM Site.

The site is http://www.toastmasters.org/Members.aspx

Then use this logon section on the left

Use the “Click here” if you need your user id and password emailed to you. For identification of you, you need to enter an email address that TM has on file for you.