This last Saturday Toastmasters District 26 conducted the Event:"Hall of Fame and Second Round TM Officer Training" It was for multiple reasons, like presenting awards from last year and also included was early bird officers training.
I attended the officers training for Vice President of Education. It is always wonderful to compare notes with other clubs and see how their VP of Ed's are doing certain things. Keith Horowitz, a long time friend in TM and fellow Geocacher (That is another story for another time), conducted this training.
One thing he brought up and I think it is a very good idea is he asked his officers specifically, but I also think it would be an excellent thing for anyone to do, is to have a hip pocket speech prepared. More specifically if one would wish to you can use some modules that are a hold over from the legacy program and that is the "Better Speaker Series", Successful Club Series and Leadership Excellence Series. These all would make excellent hip pocket speeches for when we have people drop off the agenda.
Why would we want to do this?
These presentations help with common issues facing clubs! Things like the basics of how to prepare and write speeches. Most of our more seasoned members could open a set of these slides and give a speech from them with no problem! For the newer members it would be an excellent thing to review these materials and prepare to give presentation on them for these moments as well. The best way to learn often is to prepare to teach something!
I would encourage all of us to have in our "hip pockets" one of these modules, about so many different aspects of Toastmasters, ready for when you have the opportunity.
As to how we make it count for credit in your pathway? I know the VP of Ed himself, we can make it fit! There are many options for this in your path and I am convinced we can put it in there somewhere!
My challenge to myself and for you is to look over these resources and have a set of slides on a given subject ready to talk to so we can always have at least one speaker at every meeting. It will also be a great learning experience for us as we review some great information.
You can find these modules on TM International webpage. I find it easiest to just put the titles in the search bar and it will take you right to them. You can download the whole set onto your computer.
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