Category: toastmasters
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Balancing Needs of the District vs Your Own Needs?
A member has previously posted here as a former Admin Manager, Division Director, Area Director, and more. Recently, [he/she] stepped down from those roles, and things were going smoothly for a while. However, when the PRM position became available, [he/she/they] was approached to take it on. This member enjoys the social media aspect of the…
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Medium: why she is leaving Toastmasters
This comes from a Medium article https://medium.com/@king.tinac/why-im-leaving-toastmasters-f2a9adc2a5e4 In October 2013, she walked into her first Toastmasters meeting feeling both excitement and trepidation. Her goal was clear: she was a singer and wanted to give a recital for her friends, but she was unsure of what to say between the songs. She had heard that Toastmasters…
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Toastmasters Area director role
After serving as club officer in your club, what is the expected job of Area director ? How much workload for a volunteer position ? This can vary greatly depending on the District’s culture and the ambitions of the District Director, as well as your Division Director. Some Division Directors are micromanagers; others are rarely…
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Toastmasters WHQ announced a social media monitoring and discipline group
Dear Toastmasters, I would like to introduce the Social Media Monitoring and Discipline Committee to the members of The Official Toastmasters International Members Group. The committee was formed in September 2022 and includes Past International President Jim Kokocki, Past International Directors Kevin Doyle, Dotty Du, Teresa Dukes, and Gloria Shishido, along with World Headquarters staff…
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The disaster that is the Toastmasters Pathway program
My assignment was to build a social media presence. Therefore I’m supposed to talk about the best use of online communication. I need to maintain a social profile to promote myself or an organization. This project is a cat walk for me. I’m a computer expert. I’ve been using social media. I’ve maintained a website…
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TMI is a MLM business model
MLM = Multi-level marketing Ralph Smedley ‘s vision Ralph Smedley originally created Toastmasters as a place to develop communications skills. It has since evolved mutated degenerated into two organizations. One of them, centered around the club mission statement, still follows Smedley’s vision, at least in some clubs. The other, centered around the district mission statement,…
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Where leaders are made $$
If you want to exemplify the “Where leaders are made” tagline, consider that real leadership is less about following some “distinguished” plan that mostly benefits TI with extra membership $$, and more about building your club into a group that its members are proud to belong to. A truly excellent club meets its members needs…
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Agora Speaker a threat to Toastmasters
Both the founder and many of the initial supporters received all kinds of insults, hate mail, personal threats, and even official legal threats from top lawyers in the country to desist. People with leadership positions in other organizations were asked to step down or were directly expelled simply for expressing their support towards Agora. We…
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Stepping down and getting a cold shoulder
This post really hurt my feeling towards the poster. A former Area Director, Division Director, Admin Manager, Conference Co-Chair announced he was going to focus more on his career advancement and leave officer roles at Toastmasters. Now he is being ignored by who he thought were his people. Frankly , never waste your time on…
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Why my club decided to drop out of Toastmasters
TL;DR We dropped out because of Pathways and because the Fall contest has been permanently cancelled. I’ve been an on/off member of Toastmasters for 9 years. I’ve been a member of three different clubs, served as the president for two different clubs, and served in a number of other officer roles as well. I really…