Mar 3, 2022
Hello
As the District Director, one of my goals is to support clubs to benefit more from Toastmasters. We are actively working on the Pathways Adoption Program. A team of Pathways ambassadors are visiting the clubs to do a 1:1 session with your club members where we can answer questions and can help with understanding Pathways projects to plan your path forward. I am happy to share that we are progressing with Club Pathways adoption rapidly, and the Pathways ambassadors are able to complete Pathways projects as well. If you are interested to know more, please send me an email.
How are you progressing on your goals? It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind and lose sight of the big goals you wanted to tackle this year. A goal check-in is an opportunity to remind yourself of your goals, refresh and revise them, assess your progress, and identify action steps. It’s a critical part of the goal-setting process!
I personally like to do a quick check-in at the beginning of every month so I can evaluate how things are going. This is the time when I make adjustments and create an action plan for the month ahead. Even if you haven’t accomplished much, the beauty is that you can use your goal check-in to revise your goals and start fresh today. No matter the frequency of your check-ins, I suggest committing to a consistent schedule and adding a recurring reminder to your calendar. Without these check-ins, it’s far too easy to lose sight of your goals.
Here are a couple of actionable tips you can use to do a goal check-in and assess how you’re doing so far.
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Retrospective: Check your progress and readjust your plan. Start - Something new, Stop - Something that did not work, Continue - Something that worked well
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Connect your goal back to your why: Dig deep and consider why this goal is important and meaningful to you. If it doesn’t resonate with you at a deep level, you won’t be motivated to work on it.
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Identify action steps and designate time to work on your goal: This is a big reason so many goals fail. If you don’t put time on your calendar, it won’t happen!
So, go ahead - Pause for a few minutes and do your goal check-in.
Think about your personal development goals, renew your club membership to have uninterrupted growth opportunities in Toastmasters. Be a March Madness achiever. Have you hosted your club’s New Year’s Challenge Open House? Clubs are having great success with Next Door, LinkedIn, and MeetUp in attracting guests. Continue to publicize your club, because PR is not just the job of the VP of Public Relations but every members’. Use these programs to Bring Back Your Base Membership or go beyond and receive district credit.
Participating in Speech Contests provides you with an opportunity to grow as a communicator by challenging you to step up every aspect of your skills. In 2022, members will compete in the Evaluation and International Speech contests. Attend the Area Contests this month to encourage your club winners.
Congratulations to all the clubs that ensured all 7 officers got trained 2nd term. Each of these Magnificent 7 clubs earned $101 in District Credit and are cruising towards a successful year ahead.
Did you enjoy learning from other Club Officers in the COT and wish there were more opportunities? Please join us and connect with fellow club officers to have peer to peer interaction in Club Officer After Hours on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6PM PST. We are going to dedicate this month to Pathways. Register here.
Do your goal check-ins, review your retrospectives, revise your plan to stay on the path to success. Send me a note about your whys, I would love to hear from you.
