Lessons Learned

Toastmasters International requires that every club votes in prospective members as “The Toastmasters club is a private association and club membership is by invitation” according to the Club President manual. The more common reason a club votes in new members is that by voting them in, a club has the right to vote a member [...]

Being part of an organization devoted to public speaking and leadership, it’s basically a given that there are Toastmaster members who have ambitions of serving in public office and confident that the skills they learned in Toastmasters would guide them through their campaign and through their term if elected. Here in District 30 we have [...]

A couple of years ago, I gave a workshop on publicity and mentioned numerous tips clubs can use to promote their clubs. There were a few who really didn’t like the session as I never really discussed club websites, getting comments like “nearly every inquiry about Toastmasters is through the Internet”, etc. I told them [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was in Frankfort, KY for a work trip. Going south on U.S. 60 to my hotel after having breakfast, I noticed an actual Toastmasters billboard just a mile north of I-64. Later that day, on the way back from work, I did stop at the median of U.S. 60 [...]

Greetings fellow Toastmasters and non-Toastmasters! I decided within the last month to put together a blog about my experiences and thoughts about Toastmasters, in particular with both club and district leadership. I developed a page about this blog to explain more about it. I plan to publish an entry at least every other week, sometimes [...]