By Timothy Fields, DTM, Division Director Welcome to Toastmasters where leaders are made. We’ve all heard this phrase as members of Toastmasters. This tagline was put to the test at the second annual D25 Summit where seven fearless leaders and their band of warriors (Area Directors and club officers) converged at Whites Chapel for...
By Robi Ley, DTM, Immediate Past District Director, District Leadership Chair This post originally created October 9, 2019. Updated November 12, 2019. You’re ready. I know you are. Ready for what? Ready for your next step. That step up and out to District Leadership. Wait. What? Me? District leadership? Yes, you. It’s time. Even though...
By Tammy Kasterke, DTM Like most of you, I’ll never forget attending my first Toastmasters meeting. I was nervous, but curious enough to step into the unknown. That first meeting I accepted a Table Topic question with a meek “okay” and clenched hands. After leaving the meeting, I knew I wanted to be in Toastmasters....
By Diana Patton, DTM Webmaster Club officers should have received the following email from Toastmasters International May 14, 2019 regarding going digital on various documents. Link to these documents and web pages can be found on D25 club resource and contest resource pages. Dear Club Officers, In the March Leader Letter, we shared that...
By Andra Beatty, ACS-ALB, Area Director Have you ever been given a deadline that pushed you toward achieving your goals at warp speed? I have or at least that is how this last year has felt to me. So many things to do. So many things accomplished and just a few more to do...
By Greg Pick, DTM, Immediate Past District Director “The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mahatma Gandhi My experiences in Toastmasters have demonstrated the truth in this quote from Mahatma Gandhi. Point number six of the Toastmasters Promise states, “To Serve my Club as an officer when...
By Maribeth Fontabla, PM4, President, World Renowned Grand Prairie Toastmasters I joined Toastmasters in March 2018. The reasons I joined Toastmasters is for to become a better speaker and further develop my leadership skills. At the time that I joined Toastmasters I was working as one of the assistant service managers in the psychiatry department...
By Chris Raneri, DTM, Club Growth Director Remember when we could just make up our own rules to conduct business in our Toastmasters clubs? Oh wait! We always had to follow parliamentary procedures, we just didn’t know what they were or how to implement them. Club business like elections, passing motions, and budgeting are common...
By Greg Pick, DTM, Immediate Past District Director In 2008, Toastmasters introduced the Competent Leader manual that put definition and form around the fundamental leadership skills being implemented at club meetings as members performed their roles. Although learning these fundamental skills resulted in personal growth, my understanding of leadership increased tremendously when I implemented my...
By Robi Ley, DTM, District Director Standing atop the Tower of the Americas, looking across the nightscape of San Antonio, gives you a chance to see things from a different perspective. Your trio attends training twice a year, just as club officers do, and that was our view our last night of mid-year training. What...
