Division K Education & Training - Tip No 4
Beyond Competent Communicator
This Tip is intended to inspire all you Advanced (or soon to be Advanced) speakers!
Beyond Competent Communicator?
That's a quote from the web site of Excalibur Speakers
Quoting further:
"Excalibur is London's only advanced Toastmasters club. It is open to any Toastmaster that has achieved the status of 'Competent Communicator' by completing all ten speech projects in the Competent Communication manual.
Excalibur meets once a month in central London, and is dedicated to helping its members take on more challenging speaking projects, while receiving high quality evaluation from experienced fellow Toastmasters."
See these quotes & much more on their web site:
http://www.excalibur-speakers.co.uk/
Step Outside
Advanced Manuals say, in the section How to Use This Program:
"Credit up to two (Advanced) speeches per manual given outside a Toastmasters club if:
1) Your vice president education agrees in advance
2) a Toastmasters evaluator is present, completes the written project evaluation, gives a verbal evaluation, and
3) you meet all project objectives"
So, meet those requirements, go speak at your place of work, church, or sports club & get credit for it!
What's in it for Me?
Thank you to Ola Aralepo for pointing out that giving Advanced speeches could be of direct benefit to you, in your personal and your professional life.
Just some of the Advanced manual titles:
Technical Presentations
Special Occasion Speechs
Speeches by Management
Communicating on Television
Interpersonal Communications
and more
Look here
http://d71.org/kb.php?mode=article&k=172
to see a summary of all 15 Advanced manuals & their speech projects
Division K Tip 3 - Keeping up to date - The Project Completion Record
Division K Education & Training - Tip No 3
Every Toastmasters manual for Leadership & for Communication has a page, a Project Completion Record.
This week's tip is to keep this page up to date.
Mark your achievements with highlighter pens, with stick-on Gold Stars even!
Why?
You'll have a visible record of your success
Life will be a lot easier for yourself & your VPE, when they come to post the details to the Toastmasters web site for your next award
And, particularly for the Competent Leader (CL) manual, planning which role to take on next will definitely be easier!
Every Toastmasters manual for Leadership & for Communication has a page, a Project Completion Record.
This week's tip is to keep this page up to date.
Mark your achievements with highlighter pens, with stick-on Gold Stars even!
Why?
You'll have a visible record of your success
Life will be a lot easier for yourself & your VPE, when they come to post the details to the Toastmasters web site for your next award
And, particularly for the Competent Leader (CL) manual, planning which role to take on next will definitely be easier!
Our new Division K Governor - Peter Gerlach
Our new Division K Governor - Peter Gerlach
Our new Division K Governor Peter Gerlach has been busy in Toastmasters over recent years! We asked what his vision was for Div K for 2012/13.
My Vision for Division K:
- Creating a culture of trust and open and boundless communication across division K
- Recognising people who are going the extra mile openly, sincerely and publically
- Creating an Easy-Speak Culture so 80% of clubs in Division K will be using the excellent resources on http://d71.org for booking roles at meetings etc.
- Achieving Presidents Distinguished Division with one club growth in every area and with at least 80% of clubs achieving 'Presidents Distinguished' status ie successfully helping members to achieve educational awards, running effective, growing clubs and having this recognised via the top award in the Distinguished Club Program
Peter has been a member of Toastmasters International since 1998. He's a founder of Croydon Communicators and Purley Speakers. Past President of Croydon Communicators and Founding President of Purley Speakers. Past Area 35 Governor and now Division Governor of Division K London and South East.
Not only that he told us: "I am currently studying for an MBA with Durham University, have two children and run a sales turnaround company."
Now that will keep you busy!
The Division K team of Area Governors is made up of
Area 59: Area Governor Julie Kertesz, Citicriers, Lewisham Speakers Club, Meridian Speakers, Speakers Corner
Area 58: Area Governor Gina Georgiou, 1st London Toastmasters, Broadgate Speakers in the City, City of London Speakers, MLP London Bridge Speakers, Woodford Green Speakers
Area 35: Area Governor Dave Longley, Bromley Speakers, Croydon Communicators, Purley Speakers, Speakers of Croydon
Area 31: Area Governor Jeanne Kruger, Canary Wharf Communicators, Russian English Speakers, Speakeasy @CreditSuisse, State Street London Speakers, WiBF Speakers Club - Canary Wharf
Division K Tip 2 - more on The Distinguished Club Program (DCP) 2
This is the Division K Education & Training Tip No 2.
It continues the theme of Tip No 1, which is to encourage all club members to be involved with the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) & see how their own achievements contribute to their club's success.
There's an easy way to check progress for clubs & individuals both.It continues the theme of Tip No 1, which is to encourage all club members to be involved with the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) & see how their own achievements contribute to their club's success.
Simply go to ww.d71.org, the web site for District 71 UK & Ireland
Hover over Go to . . . on the tool bar
Choose Select a club from the drop down menu which appears
Select the club you wish to look at from the next drop down list
wait a moment . . . & you'll be taken to the Club Detail page
Choose Select a club from the drop down menu which appears
Select the club you wish to look at from the next drop down list
wait a moment . . . & you'll be taken to the Club Detail page
On the right hand side, you'll see three buttoms, under the heading Information from the Toastmaster International web site, and as seen in the document TI Report buttons
Click on Distinguished Club Status - takes you directly to the DCP report for your club
Click on Educational Awards by Club - takes you to the more detailed Educational Achievements report, which is sorted in Club name order
Click on Educational Awards by Name - the same detailed report, this time in alphabetical order by name
Click on Educational Awards by Club - takes you to the more detailed Educational Achievements report, which is sorted in Club name order
Click on Educational Awards by Name - the same detailed report, this time in alphabetical order by name
Division K Tip 1 - The Distinguished Club Program (DCP)
The Distinguished Club Program (DCP)
It's a set of goals, measures, which clubs & their members aspire to reach, and which show the club's progress on its Toastmasters journey.
Familiar ground, I'm sure!
Part 1 - Use this manual as a working document
It contains:
Part 2 - Bring the manual along to club meetings, so that everyone can see how their own successes contribute to the club's progress
Every club should have a copy of this manual
It's also available to download from the Toastmasters web site
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What is the Distinguished Club Program?
There's 10 of them, covering every aspect of the club's operation, and summarising every members' achievements.
There's a Toastmasters manual - "Distinguished Club Program and Club Success Plan"
So here's the tip, the suggestion:
Part 1 - Use this manual as a working document
It contains:
a comprehensive description of the DCP O
an example Club Success Plan
a template to prepare your own Club Success Plan
a chart where DCP goals can be ticked off as they're reached
Every club should have a copy of this manual
It's also available to download from the Toastmasters web site
Look here: http://www.toastmasters.org/
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