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Get ready for some exciting presentations at our upcoming conference!

What’s Your GRIPE?

Not certain about your Goal, Resource, Image, Potential, and Excellence? Whether a new member or an “old timer,” let’s explore and discover greater levels of success in our lives. Allow this workshop to challenge you to take the next step on your Toastmaster journey and not only dream your dreams, but changing your dreams into realities. By attending your District Conference, you are already demonstrating that you have greatness in you. Together, let’s examine how you can make others benefit with the talents you already have and will acquire. Why not be bodacious and consider just one of the many leadership challenges Toastmasters has to offer you.

Far too often, we keep delaying living the life we wish. Don’t you feel sometimes that there could and should be more….? Let Toastmasters help you get it! Explore the many opportunities and leadership challenges we are offered and how we can personally benefit from them. Are you making your investment in the Toastmasters program pay off? Are you getting the most return on your investment?

It is my hope that you’ll leave this workshop empowered, emboldened, and passionate to achieve all your dreams, and make them into realities, as well as empower others to do the same. Become the leader you can and should be.

Annelie Weber, DTM has been a Toastmaster for 29 years. She is currently serving Toastmasters as International Director with the goal of making our organization to be the undisputed leader in the world for developing communication and leadership skills. She is serving all Districts world-wide, but especially those Districts in Region VII and that includes District 45.

As the District Governor in the year 2005 – 2006, Annelie led her District to Select Distinguished. She has served Toastmasters in various other leadership roles, including TLI Dean, Region Registrar, Region Education Chair; seminar leader, and trainer. She is a great proponent of James Allen’s maxim -- that we are only limited by the thoughts that we choose! Annelie salutes all Toastmasters in District 45 who resolve to make their dreams into realities and offers her support to all.

Chairman / Toastmaster: Procedure and Methodology Demonstrated in Words and Actions

Many members gladly give a speech but shake in their boots when it comes to undertaking the Role of Chairman / Toastmaster (Toastmasters International has declared the word “Chairman” to be gender neutral). The reason? It's because very few clubs have an intimate knowledge of the correct procedures of Roberts Rules. This educational will help you understanding the nuances and methodology of the role of Chairman, when either conducting a business meeting as a function of a Toastmasters meeting, or in any other Public Forum.

Roberts Rules of Parliamentary Procedure are the mainstay of business meeting functions. As a result, understanding these rules is a necessary requirement for any person wishing to be both comfortable with, and cognisant of, how to conduct themselves in any format of the business meeting environment.

Toastmasters Conference PresenterJohn Newman ACG – CL has been a Toastmaster for the past seven years. He has been actively involved in speech competitions, up to District 45 placing 3rd in 2006. He has held most executive positions including President of Premiere (Charlottetown) twice, and the Advanced Club Spotlight. John strives to help fellow club members step out of their comfort zone, to become competent and successful in areas they would like to improve their personal skills. John’s forte is developing verbal skills in his member Toastmasters, striving to improve grammar and syntax in members through encouraging evaluations.

John is now retired from his lifelong involvement in dairy farming. He's also taught agricultural mechanics for many years in trade school, and for six years was Operations Manager at the Halifax Ocean Grain Terminal. He now holds the position of “odd job man” helping out on his daughter and son-in-law's dairy farm on Prince Edward Island during the summer. In the winter John pursues his love of carpentry, building fine furniture from lumber harvested from his wood lot. John and his wife, Carol, now devote themselves to their two granddaughters, living next door to the farm.

Judging – the Key to Effective Contests

Judging is an important component of any speech contest because good judging increases the likelihood that the contestant that best fits the criteria for the contest will be named winner. When this happens, contestants are usually satisfied and so is the audience. When the audience and the contestants are unhappy with the results, it can discourage people from competing or attending contests in the future. This workshop will discuss the judging criteria for the International speech contest and the Table Topics contest.

Toastmasters Conference PresenterHeather Perkins, DTM has served as District 45 Governor twice. She has competed in various speech contests and she has judged at all levels, including twice at International. Heather has served as Chief Judge at Club, Area, Division, District and Region. She has probably attended more speech contests than any other D45 Toastmaster having attended over 80 contests at the District level or higher. Heather’s profession is a program evaluator and as such she is continually examining whether programs achieve the intended results. Heather has taken an interest in judging at various levels and wants to help ensure that, as a District, we have effective judging so both participants and audience are happy with the outcomes of the contests.

Motivating to Higher Achievement

One topic but with two different slants. You'll take away ideas to help boost your own energy and drive, as well as helping to inspire those within your club.

Making Motivation a Habit
Is your energy low? Are you just going through the motions? Are you looking for ways to motivate yourself or others? If so, this session will help you get ideas that you can use at home, work and everywhere in between. Get ready for an interactive session where you’ll learn motivation basics, what factors we can control to boost our motivation and different types of skills to help build and maintain high levels of motivation. Get ready to rock!

Liz Brisson, CC, CL, is actively involved in a newly chartered club located in Littleton, NH. Prior to moving last year, she was an active member and volunteer for three years at Amoskeag Better Communicators in Manchester, NH serving as the VP of Education. Additionally, Liz was a member of an Advanced Toastmasters Club, Excel-Orators. Liz is a Senior Marketing Consultant for MetLife and is living the simple life with her husband in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom generating their own power using solar and wind.

Toastmasters as a Spiritual Practice
Three years ago, I began Toastmasters and a spiritual training program at the same time. I looked at them as two completely separate pursuits: one was polishing external speaking skills; the other was building internal living skills. Three years later, it's clear that they both support me in claiming my right to stand up, be seen, and live a more fulfilling life. In this session, we'll look at the spiritual lessons at work in the Toastmasters program and how you can benefit from being aware of them.

Leah Carey is a member of White Mountain Toastmasters in Plymouth, NH, as well as a charter member of the new club in Littleton, NH. In her first year as a Toastmaster, she competed at the district level of the 2007 International Speech Contest. She works as a Self-Empowerment Coach and Workshop Leader, supporting people in telling their personal stories in writing and on stage. You can find her online at www.leahcarey.com.

What are you Communicating?

Toastmasters is synonymous with communication, not only during stage time but in meetings, in our relationships, in the workplace and at home. In this presentation, Sheila Kelly will deepen your understanding of how you are showing up at Toastmasters and in the world. As well, you will take away a focus tool to add to your communications tool box.

Sheila Kelly, CC, is a professional coach, certified by the prestigious Coaches Training Institute. A coaching pioneer in Nova Scotia, Sheila has worked with hundreds of middle and senior managers over the past ten years, individually and in groups. With a natural curiosity and a laser-like ability to get to the heart of what's going on, Sheila challenges her clients with probing questions and razor sharp insights.

Sheila's quiet manner belies her boldness and audaciousness.  Sheila strives always to serve and add value in all that she does.  Clients include Canada Post, Maritime Travel, Delta Hotels, and all levels of government.

A Toastmaster for two years, Sheila is a charter member of two clubs and is currently serving as a club mentor.