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October 2018 District 71 Newsletter

View as Webpage To District 71 Members, Greetings! Welcome to the District 71 Magazine. This year each month we will be featuring both a shorter Guest Division and new Guest Educational features. This month we have Division E and a Club Coaching educational section. The prize quiz is also back as a regular feature and August's winner is Division E Director Andy Nichols! The big news this month is the early bird rates and entertainments at teh Conference have been announced. Loot! Do you club's want to get their hands on goodies? We have it on offer as the District's incentive programs are rolled out! This year the magazine will be fully published online as Pdf as the more familiar downloadable Portable Document Format (pdf) file (link at bottom). This will make the content far more find-able and sharable online. The online edition contain bonus materials such as video and podcast clips. READ MORE takes you to the full online version of each article. 3-500 word submissions for future publication are welcome. Contact Public Relations Manager Daniel Sandars

Lancaster Conference - Early Birds & Entertainments Conference Norwich 10th – 12th May 2019 For the first time ever, we will have a District Conference that will feature 8 Semi-Finals and all 4 Speech Competitions: Humorous, International, Evaluation and Table Topics finals. It's going to be quite an event! WE'RE going BACK in time to the 1940's! Keynote Speakers: Eldonna Lewis Fernandez and Marcus Hemsley It's called the 'Lancaster Conference' for good reason! So the theme this year to commemorate the era of the famous Lancaster Bomber, is the fabulous 40's! There will be a grand celebration on the Friday night, with a big band suited to the occasion. So pick your perfect period costume and join in on all of the fun! Early Bird rate £240 available now in budget-able stage payments ... READ MORE

Club Growth Incentives & News Incentives: Fall into Winter 1st November-31st December Add 4 new, dual or reinstated members prior to December 31st PIZZA - VOUCHERS - AVAILABLE The thrilling news is that on the 10 th of September Walsall Speakers club received its charter, becoming the District’s 203 rd club and our first new club this Toastmaster’s year. At a recent club meeting of Fexco, Killorglin, County Kerry, Club Growth Director Gerard Mannix presented the club banner to Siobhan Colborne, President of Fexco Payments Toastmasters Club. Inside this edition are the full Incentives: District 71 2018/19 READ MORE

Program Quality Incentives & News What Will Your Club and Your Members Achieve in 2018-19? I don't know about you, but I have often been confused by the variety of terms we use - training, education, development, learning, coaching, mentoring, knowledge, skills, etc. It is also recognised that a lot of education and training is wasted and doesn't necessarily get applied in the workplace or in life. I still wonder what the value of algebra is and why at school they didn't teach me how to hang wallpaper! In this edition you will find details of the Program Quality incentives on offer. I wish you a wonderful year. READ MORE

Public Relations Incentives & News The flag ship incentive is the Open House/Open Night Our Goal as a District is to return to the International Hall of Fame at the next convention in Denver, Colorado. To do that we need more members and more clubs and it all begins with attracting more guests. Six further incentives provide enabling support Distinguished Club Website; Club Promotional Video; External Events grant; Write an article for the national press via our PR Agent, Chantal Cooke; Launch a new Club PR channel; and Traveling Toasties Inside this edition is a summary of this year PR incentives, full details are available on request READ MORE

Guest Division E Guest Editor Division E Director Andy Nichols A wise man once told me "knowledge is like an inverse pyramid - the more you learn the more you realise how much you don't know"**. To me Toastmasters can be a bit like that. Every time I attend a meeting I learn something new - from the content of a prepared speech or in the way an evaluation is delivered; and from the way someone runs the meeting to how guests control their nerves with their first table topic. That's part of the reason I put myself forward to be Division Director this year (OK, that and I'd like to achieve DTM...). ** He was "speaker host" at a Rotary Club that I gave a talk to using skills I've learnt as a Toastmaster. READ MORE

Guest Educational: Club Coaching The Club Coaching program doesn’t often receive a lot of publicity, yet it is important. Therefore we have invited experienced Club coaches to contribute to this section. Gerard Mannix opens the section with his experience and a description of how Club Coaching works followed by Daniel Sandars who describes District 71’s Club Coaching program over the last year. We than have three Club Coaches, Brenda Lannon, Joey O’Leary, and Phillip O’Brien, describe their hands on experiences. Finally Patricia Loughnane provides an excellent summary with her tips on successful Club Coaching READ MORE

#WeAreToastmasters September 2018

A selection of our house hashtag appearing on social media involving Crossroad Communicators,Milton Keynes Confident Speakers, Wexford Toastmasters, and a Golden Gavel award each meeting at one club. Are you using #WeAreToastmasters? READ MORE

Prize Quiz Win Mini Notebook and Pen Set Guest edited by Alex Knibbs of Saffron Walden Speakers READ MORE Answers by Friday 9th November 2018

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