August 2nd Review

Today we had Jim Wolak join our meeting as our area director for leadership training. Brian led our business portion of the meeting. He talked about an interested member, Margie, who we hope we will meet in person soon. Lauralee reported as the Vice President of Public Relations that the Facebook page had received 1058 people seeing our posts within a month's time. Paul, Newport Yaquina's Sergeant at Arms talked about how ten people had visited the club as guests recently, and how we have now had a new member and some interested people who are looking at joining the club. Lee, our Vice President of Membership, talked about how bringing a friend to Toastmasters is the easiest way to bring in new members. Our Vice President of Education, Dave, gave a report on how he is trying a new way to sign up for roles through a sheet that you can write down what you want to do for the next month.
Lori gave her speech today for the competent communicator manual. It was a very good speech on overcoming fear and being able to give her speeches without all of the anxiety she had had when she joined Toastmasters a few months ago. Dave was her evaluator talking about her improvement on having a confident voice, and getting rid of some of her habits.
Jim Wolak led the training of officers where he went over the different offices roles and how they contribute to the meeting. He also suggested that when shift change comes around next year, that the current set of officers should start training their replacements. There will be some dates being posted soon for upcoming events that Jim went over so that you can mark your calendars.

Some of the highlighted suggestions given today:
Make business or pass along cards for members to hand out to people who are interested in Toastmasters.
Leave flyers at the college, post office, public library and chamber of commerce for people to pick up.
Have a fun meeting where you hold a "backwards", speech or table topics only, themed, or roles in a bag meeting.
Make sure to remember to mark when you have completed a task for the manuals. The competent leadership manual have a lot of normal (ie timer, grammarian) rolls that need to be recorded to complete an achievement.
Always make sure to use the boards around the room to track your progress.