how to create a toastmasters club - pdf version
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The PLEASE formula to create and charter a Toastmasters Club in your office or community in 3 weeksTRANSCRIPT
Dzung Vuong ACS (Advanced Communication Silver) ALB (Advanced Leadership Bronze) Club Coach Area Governor
November 2010
• How we chartered Create WOW! Toastmasters Club in 3 weeks
The Story
• Except the author & the Club, I changed people names
The Characters
What is Toastmasters?
Non-profit volunteer organization
Members learn and practice
communication and leadership skills
Communication
Give prepared speech, evaluation
and impromptu speaking
Leadership
At Club, Area, Division, District
and International Levels
Problem
Leverage
Enthusiasm
Actions
Sales
Endurance
Have you got a problem?
Do what you can where you are with what you've got. Theodore Roosevelt
At the year end performance review: Victor’s manager asked him: “Give your evaluation about me as a manager?”
Victor raised this in our Services Excellence Workshop where over 30 people attended.
Victor’s problem: He could not tell his manager: You suck!
He ended up saying nothing, even he wanted to say something!
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller
I said: Toastmasters teach you how to give constructive feedback without hurting the other person.
Tom, our instructor: Why don’t you form a Toastmasters Club?
Me: I’ll arrange an Information Session.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 4th, 2010: I said we’ll have an Information Session
March 5th, 2010: We had this session with District 2 Toastmasters
The secret of getting things done is to act! Benjamin David
To charter a Toastmasters
Club, you need 20 members
From March 5, I took an
action almost daily
My Goal: to have 20
members signed up by
April 1st
When you try to sell an idea to someone, there are 4 polite responses: a) I don’t know b) I might c) I will d) I do Only people who say “I do” will write you a check
Dzung Vuong
There are about 100 people in the
office
Within 2 weeks, one third of top managers signed up as members
I signed up for this Toastmasters Club, why don’t you give it a try?
Or, Steve, do you know Tim (his manager) & Ann (his peer) both signed up?
Or, did you know that both Pedro (2nd most senior manager) and David (Top Manager) both
signed up?
Tactics
There is no sales tactic as powerful as Personal Stories
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
William Clement Stone
Summary
(we did it in 19 days)
The ideas to form
Toastmasters Club was in
March 4th, 2010
The Club was chartered on
March 23rd, 2010 with 38
members (about 1/3 of the people
in the office)
Almost half of all senior managers
signed up as members
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