Monday, August 31, 2009

Cyndi Maxey at District Conference

Cyndi Maxey, a Chicago-area speaking professional, will be presenting the keynote address at the Toastmasters District 54 fall conference, in Galesburg on Saturday, November 14. The keynote is entitled "Speak Up! How to Master the Art of Influence." You can visit Cyndi Maxey's website at http://www.cyndimaxey.com/

Monday, August 24, 2009

Advanced Expressives Helps Train Trainers

The Advanced Expressives Toastmasters club is offering a training workshop to help teach people to be effective trainers. This is an open workshop with a moderate fee to cover costs - and well worth it, from the looks of it! The workshop is this coming Saturday, Aug 29. See attached flyer for details.

New Lenox Toastmasters

We have several new clubs in Toastmasters District 54. One of them, New Lenox Toastmasters, was recently featured in the New Lenox Patriot.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Membership

I was reading the District 47 June newsletter about the LGET reading the District reports and looking at them in a different way. She found that as of May 31, one month before the end of the year, 46% of the clubs didn’t have a single CC, and 57% didn’t have a single AC, yet the District finished as Presidents Distinguished with 507 CCs and 206 ACs one month later.

I decided to look at the District 54 membership numbers for last year and found 42 clubs had a net gain of 0 or lost members. That indicates over half the clubs are not growing. The previous two years we had 46 clubs (both years) that had a net gain of 0 or lost members.

Last year was an improvement over the previous two years, but it seems like having over 50% of the clubs with a net gain of 0, or loss of members, indicates we are not meeting the members needs.

Our goal is to have all clubs at charter strength, or a net gain of 5 members. Any ideas on how to improve the situation?