How was your Toastmasters journey so far? We sincerely hope that the self-paced program has empowered you to achieve your full potential and improve your speaking, listening, thinking skills, vital skills that help you become more successful in your personal and professional lives.
We also would like to thank you for participating in the membership survey. The committee is keen to ensure that our Toastmasters club is meeting your needs. We believe that effective learning is learning by doing and improving through continuous practice and evaluation. We will make sure that you’ll practice in a friendly, supportive environment, with people who are there for the same reasons you are, to become better communicators and leaders.
As time goes by, we are continually strived to keep your excitement by doing something different in our meetings. On October 22, we held a special event for celebrating “85th Anniversary of Toastmasters International”. Our little party was fun and everyone was in the spirit of celebration. We had an Educational Session with topic “Take the Terror out of Talk”, which taken from The Better Speaker Series. It was well presented by our guest speaker, DTM Teddy Lesmana. We hope this educational session has helped members in gaining information about techniques for overcoming nervousness when speaking. In the future, we are planning to give some educational sessions for members. In the middle of that celebration, our member, Toastmasters Cindy Resita, received an Educational Achievement and titled as “Competent Communicator”(CC), after she had completed her 10 projects.
On October 29, we also made variety on our traditional meeting format and conducted a Joint Meeting with Jakarta Toastmasters Club. We had a special theme “Happy Halloween”. It was a great spooky night..:), since we had members wore costumes such as witch, mask from “Scream the Movie”, gothic women, etc. But, it was also fun since we had a fairy, pirates, fortune teller, and girls with masquerade :) We had two TOMs, debate session, and Best Costume Competition.
Basically, we understood that “Toastmaster is like a love affair. Everything is exciting at first and then if you’re not careful, it can become dull and routine.” So, he we hope these variations will add a new dimension to our Toastmasters Training and keep everyone fresh.
We also should be proud that one of our members, Steve Bowen, had made it to District Level for Evaluation Speech Contest. We believe it was a journey of experience. We are encouraging all of you to prepare for upcoming International & Table Topic Club Speech Contest which approximately will be held on February 2010.
Another thing that members should know is that our club is working to accomplish goals from the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) . These goals are:
1. Two CC’s
2. Two more CC’s
3. One AC Bronze/Silver/Gold
4. One CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver or DTM.
5. One more CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver or DTM
6. Four New Members
7. Four more New Members
8. Minimum of 4 Clubs officers trained during each of two training periods.
9. One membership renewal report and one club officer list submitted on time.
The British Toastmasters Club aim for “President’s Distinguished Club status”, which 9 of 10 goals should be achieved. Basically, this DCP focusing on 2 areas :
· Educational Award : It determines our club’s success in helping its member learn not only speaking but leadership skill as well.
· Membership: In order to conduct the educational program, a club should have at least 20 members. We should continually strive to bring in new members to combat natural membership turnover, and retain current ones.
So, we need to work together to achieve these goals, which mean at the end of the day, we help bringing out the best in each of us. Please bring your friends or colleagues to visit our meeting.
Last but not least, if u had any suggestion for our club, feel free to contact our VP Membership or other club officers.
Let’s move this club forward.
Best Regards,
Indriati Permanasari
Club President
-On behalf of BTMC Club Executive Committee-
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