Lessons Learned

Hard to believe that there is only a month and a half till the Fall District 30 Conference to be held on November 5th and 6th at the William Tell Holiday Inn in Countryside.  Looking at the conference website, it appears District 30 is addressing a few problems from the last conference, such as those [...]

I would consider the last District 30 Spring Conference to be the most disappointing among those I’ve attended over the years, and that included the one which I was humiliated as Contest Chair.  Not because there wasn’t a “Tea Party” victory in which the rejected candidates did get elected to the Top 2 positions for [...]

The District 30 Spring Conference will be taking place this Friday and Saturday at the Holiday Inn in Elk Grove Village.  In my 11 years in Toastmasters, this is the latest the Spring Conference is being held relative to the start of the calendar year, in part due to the loss of the Regional Conferences [...]

With the Fall Conference taking place next weekend, here are some things I’m thinking about as I look forward to some of the festivities: Looking forward to seeing many old friends and new faces as the last District 30 event I attended was the Spring Conference (I was out golfing during the Summer TLI). Definitely [...]

One thing that did not surprise me today when I attended the District 30 Winter Toastmasters Leadership Institute is that the team put together by the TLI Dean includes a couple who are current Division Governors, each holding two major positions.  One Division Governor was the Assistant Dean and Publicity Chair, the other was the [...]