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September 2008
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Welcome!!
Good day my fellow Toastmasters! I am Genisi Sedlmayer, your Denver Division Governor for 2008-2009 and I am so excited for the opportunity to offer assistance and encouragement in growing each Denver Division member to reach all of your goals. This site and newsletter are part of my overall plan to make sure everyone is connected and informed throughout the year. Your Denver Division Leaders and myself will use this site and other resources to guide, assist and communicate to all of you. This is YOUR site. Please send feedback, articles, pictures and anything else you want to post in the monthly newsletter, or even somewhere else on the website to us and we will add it! I am so happy to get this year off to a great start, and look forward to meeting and speaking to you all, and I wish you great success in the coming year. ~ Genisi
It's Contest Season!
August is a busy Toastmasters month. We are getting ourselves going in the new TM year, (our kids are going back to school) we are meeting with Area Governors, (things are crazy at work) we are getting our own officers acclimated and trained, (we are raking all of those leaves) and in the back of our minds that little bell is ringing to let us know that we are forgetting something. Of course! It's Contest Season!! I hope to offer you a few tips and ideas to get you on the right track toward a successful and exciting Humorous speaking and Evaluations contest!
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Get Started Planning Time flies when you're having fun! So get started now before the time sneaks up on you and your club. October 11th is the date for the Denver Division Contest, and Areas are setting dates for September. Get started now to avoid that last minute contest anxiety!
- Delegate Choose someone to run the show, or a committee to handle the event. Choose a high-energy member to stand in as Toastmaster. Officers have a lot to do this time of year, give someone else the opportunity to lead!
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Use Your Resources There are tips, tricks, manuals, and (yes you guessed it) scripts to help you run your contest! Take a look at this month's 'featured links' (look to your right on this page) for all the help you could need!
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Get Help Did I say all the help you could need? I was wrong. You have human resources as well! Contact your Area Governor with any questions, to request assistance, or just to invite them to join you!
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Manual Speech Friends don't let friends give non-manual speeches! You are doing the work; get the credit! Have someone evaluate in writing and meet with you later to discuss!
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Have Fun This is not simply business, it's fun! Invite friends, make it a membership building event, have a potluck, award your participants and brag about your winners in your newsletter, website or even to local newspapers! Take the opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and have a social event at the same time!
DOORS Initiative Unveiled for 2008-2009
If you are in a club with less than 20 members ? get ready for the DOORS program! This initiative, which starts July 1, 2008, is especially geared toward clubs with 13-19 members, but any club can benefit from the DOORS concept.
The DOORS program builds on the tremendous response we have had in the 2007-2008 year to coach-eligible clubs requesting club coaches. By the end of the 2007-2008 year, we had 23 club coaches working with 16 clubs. Several of these clubs are on track to be Distinguished or higher, and some already are Distinguished as we go to press with this issue of the Sage.
However, since clubs with over 13 members are not eligible for club coaches, 2008-2009 District Governor Bob Baxter wanted to create an initiative to serve those clubs. That is how the DOORS program came to be developed.
What is the DOORS program? This program relies on the 37 Area Governors serving the 150 plus clubs in District 26 to be a more proactive with the clubs in their area. They will offer to work with clubs to determine what obstacles are keeping the club from having 20 or more members. As part of the club visit and interview process, the Area Governor will ask a few specific questions to identify those obstacles.
The acronym DOORS stands for: Diagnose a Toastmasters Club?s challenges and then help the club be Open to Opportunities to Rebuild the Club and to Sustain the Club at a higher level of functioning.
In the past, Area Governors have done this kind of thing as part of their role. With DOORS, the Area Governor is more intentional about the diagnostic role. Also, the Area Governor is charged with identifying and offering resources (in the form of volunteers from other Toastmasters clubs) to help the club address these obstacles.
For example, if the club isn't getting visitors, then helping the club with its website and other publicity tools would make sense. Or people are visiting the club meetings but they aren?t joining. Then maybe help with the quality of the meeting would be in order, or perhaps helping the VP of Membership to be more effective in ?closing the sale? would be appropriate.
Ask your Area Governor about the DOORS program, and open your club?s door to all kinds of new possibilities! Joyce Feustel, DTM D26 Club Coaching Chair D26 DOORS Coordinator DOORS Diagnostic Questionaire and TM Specialist Sign Up Form Individual Achievements:
ACB
Roger L. Main
ACG
Ronald G. Wachenheim
ALB
Kenneth L. Beazer
ALS
Norman G. Frickey
CC
Jackie G. Sanders
CC
Melinda K. Brenimer
CC
Willie Jean Roberts
CC
Jessica Richards
CC
Amy Lassahn
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