How to Create a Toastmasters Club in 3 weeks
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The document outlines the successful chartering of the Wow! Toastmasters club within three weeks, beginning with an information session on March 5, 2010, and culminating in the chartering on March 23, 2010, with 38 members. The author emphasizes the importance of communication and leadership training provided by Toastmasters, illustrated through personal anecdotes and persistence in sales tactics. Key figures from the organization were mentioned as members, demonstrating widespread interest and support among senior management.
How to Create a Toastmasters Club in 3 weeks
- 1. Dzung Vuong ACS (Advanced Communication Silver) ALB (Advanced Leadership Bronze) Club Coach Area Governor November 2010
- 2. About • How we chartered Create WOW! Toastmasters Club in 3 weeks The Story • Except the author & the Club, I changed people names The Characters
- 3. What is Toastmasters? Non-profit volunteer organization Members learn and practice communication and leadership skills
- 4. Communication Give prepared speech, evaluation and impromptu speaking
- 5. Leadership At Club, Area, Division, District and International Levels
- 6. Our Story in one word: PLEASE Problem Leverage Enthusiasm Actions Sales Endurance
- 7. Problem Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got. Theodore Roosevelt
- 8. At the year end performance review: Victor’s manager asked him: “Give your evaluation about me as a manager?”
- 9. Victor raised this in our Services Excellence Workshop where over 30 people attended.
- 10. Victor’s problem: He could not tell his manager: You suck! He ended up saying nothing, even he wanted to say something!
- 11. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. John D. Rockefeller
- 12. I said: Toastmasters teach you how to give constructive feedback without hurting the other person. Tom, our instructor: Why don’t you form a Toastmasters Club? Me: I’ll arrange an Information Session.
- 14. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusias Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 15. March 4th, 2010: I said we’ll have an Information Session March 5th, 2010: We had this session with District 2 Toastmast
- 17. The secret of getting things done is to act! Benjamin David
- 18. To charter a Toastmasters Club, you need 20 members From March 5, I took an action almost daily My Goal: to have 20 members signed up by April 1st
- 19. When you try to sell an idea to someone, there are 4 polite responses: a)I don’t know b)I might c)I will d)I do Only people who say “I do” will write you a check Dzung Vuong
- 20. There are about 100 people in the office Within 2 weeks, one third of top managers signed up as members
- 21. I signed up for this Toastmasters Club, why don’t you give it a try? Or, Steve, do you know Tim (his manager) & Ann (his peer) both signed up? Or, did you know that both Pedro (2nd most senior manager) and David (Top Manager) both signed up? Tactics
- 22. There is no sales tactic as powerful as Personal Stories
- 23. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." William Clement Stone
- 27. Summary (we did it in 19 days) The ideas to form Toastmasters Club was in March 4th, 2010 The Club was chartered on March 23rd, 2010 with 38 members (about 1/3 of the people in the office) Almost half of all senior managers signed up as members