Try these new challenges - support other members, your club and other clubs!
- This year is flying by! Can you believe it’s Fall already? Pumpkin spice in the air, lots of great meetings happening and….what’s this? More opportunities to try new ways to grow my skills? Yes please!
- I love how Toastmasters helps me develop new goals as I check off the ones I complete. Once I was no longer terrified about speaking, I was ready to try leadership, and I was also ready to try speaking outside the club. And I met a whole world of great people in other clubs!
- No matter where you are in your Toastmasters adventure, our Targeted Incentives Program has lots of different challenges to try – Check out the whole list here! (And prize info here!)
- One activity I tried early on was to
- Sometimes I’d use the pre-made posters from the Toastmasters web site, or sometimes I’d make posters using Paint or Canva. They got the word out!
- About twice a month you have the opportunity for points with
Thinking outside the club, everyone is encouraged to share leads for new clubs — just email tflynn_d35@yahoo.com and if you
I really enjoyed the year I went to multiple other clubs – and celebrating at club picnics and events was great! Try
I learned some really great new ideas from some clubs, I met some great new friends in others, and, well, sometimes I learned my own club had some great ideas too.
A couple years ago I organized an Evaluation University with Allis Chalmers. It was a chance for the club to work together, and I had a chance to A lot of people learned some new skills in evaluation!
One of the options this year works right in with the incentive to bring in at least three people who are new to Toastmasters as new members – if we’re bringing in more guests, we have a better chance to win the All About the Base incentive!
I even worked with my area director to look ahead to trying something bigger the next year:
We have a chance to try lots of different opportunities in and out of our clubs, and to rack up points for our clubs toward District Dollars – as well as new members, and new ways to support other Toastmasters. I might have think about new goals to reach with all these new experiences!