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MOVING FORWARD IN 2015

Saturday morning started early with Tate’s 2 education sessions “Get Yes! To Your Request!” and “Manage Things, Lead People: Leadership Lessons Learned the Hard Way!” Following the District Council meeting, members enjoyed a leisurely lunch accompanied by education awards. The afternoon offered educational sessions by Becky Begarly, DTM, Immediate Past District Governor, Jimmie Roberts, DTM, 2015-2016 Club Growth Director, Michael Ginsberg, HCA Creative Articulators, and Shaun Markwardt, 2015-16 Area 20 Director. They day concluded with dinner, additional awards, the traditional Humorous Speech contest, and finally the Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) Ceremony. For details of the conference, please see the following pages of the newsletter.

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November 2015 Volume 6, Issue 5 INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2015 D63 Fall Conference Conference Recap Conference Picture Page Educational and Service Award Winners D63 Wall of Fame District Highlights SAVE THE DATE “Judges Training - What To Look For In A Good Speech” Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Touch Points

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MAGICAL CONFERENCE!

“Both my wife and I love the District 63 conference! Everyone made us feel so welcomed! We’d come back in a heartbeat!” With those words, 2000 World Champion and keynote speaker, Ed Tate, declared the D63 Fall Conference a success. Tate kicked off the event on Friday night, November 6, with his motivational speech “The StoryFinder™ How to Create New Stories in Minutes!”. Following his speech, members from across the District competed in the annual Evaluation Contest.

Ed Tate

SPRING CONFERENCE PLANNING UNDERWAY

Planning for the D63 2016 Spring Conference has begun. The conference is scheduled for April 22-23, 2016 in Knoxville, TN at the Holiday Inn, World’s Fair Park. Highlighting the event will be the1995 World Champion of Public Speaking, Mark Brown, along with educational sessions, and opportunities for networking. If you are interested in helping, please contact Conference Co-Chairs Shaun Markwardt and Ernestine Meiners at D63springconference@gmail.com

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D63 FALL CONFERENCE RUNDOWN

Ed Tate

any goal in your life, you must see it in your mind, first, before you’ll ever be able to achieve it. Your vision must be clear, and you must be able to believe it. • Decision – Make the decision as to what you

want to accomplish. Motivation comes from just getting started.

• Focus –Dedicate yourself to your goal,

practice, practice, practice like a Tiger (Woods)

• Action Plan - Learn from your champions According to Tate, “one person told me that so far he had talked to 30 conference attendees who had brand new stories they had never told before.” His educational session “Get Yes! To Your Every

Request!” included the 6 Weapons of Influence:

1. Reciprocation: We feel obligated to return favors performed for us.

2. Liking: The more we like people, the more we want to say yes to them.

3. Authority: We look for experts to show us the way.

4. Consistency: We want to act consistently with our commitments and values.

5. Social proof: We look to what others do to guide our behavior.

6. Scarcity: The less available the resource, the more we want it.

And, finally his session “Manage Things – Lead People: Leadership Lessons Learned the Hard-way!” included the following traits of a good leader:

Ed Tate’s keynote presentation, “The Story-Finder (tm) – How to Create New Stories in Minutes!” included his Four-Step Success Formula for successful storytelling. • Vision - Before you achieve

Good Leaders: 1. Praise People in Public (Behavior) 2. Provide Feedback in Private

(Behavior) 3. Successes – The Team Gets the

Credit 4. Failures – the Leader takes the

responsibility

5. Manage Things, Lead People

Becky Begarly, DTM

1. Resume and LinkedIn Profile Maintenance

2. Set up Lunchtime Conversations With Influencers

3. Remember to Network 4. Attend Industry Events 5. Keep Your Image Professional 6. Schedule Quarterly Meetings 7. Review Career Goals 8. Read Industry Books

Becky Begarly’s, DTM, education session, “How to Reach Your Full Potential: Toastmasters and Beyond” included the following tips to maximize your resources:

Michael Ginsberg’s, session "If a Toastmaster Falls in a Forest - An Executive Recruiter’s Advice on how to use Toastmasters for your Resume, LinkedIn Profile

Michael Ginsberg

And in Interviews" provided ideas on how to use and highlight your Toastmasters skills when you are looking to make a career move. Topics included: 1. LinkedIn: Statistics to Educate, A Profile to

Emulate and Photos to Excoriate; 2. How a Recruiter Reads Your Resume; and 3. The Job Interview- How to Be at Your Best

& How to Interview the Company While They Interview You

See Rundown (page 4)

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Member Blaine Little provided some special magic!

Want to see more? Click HERE.

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Jimmie Robert’s, DTM session “Club Building Team Dynamics” covered eight different topics intended to better equip Toastmasters in building insightful leaders who will, in turn, build strong clubs with energetic members. The topics were:

Andrea Burnette, DTM; John Breb, ACG, ALB; Clayton Wraith, CC

Understanding the Anatomy of a club

How to search for Leads for new clubs and members

Turning Leads into Opportunities

Changing Opportunities into New Clubs

Detecting Issues in Mature Clubs

Transferring Issues into Challenges

Restoring the Fun Factor in clubs

Keeping the Leaders Motivated “While there were takeaways in each of the Topics,” said Jimmie, “I hope that the attendees will certainly remember the last two. Motivated leaders will continually use several fun factors to energize themselves, and other club members, to thrive and grow. Keep your spirits high and your focus clear.”

A perpetual favorite at Conferences, the speech contests, began with a target speech by Gayle Mingledorff, Chattanooga Chatters Advanced Toastmasters Club followed by evaluations by the Division champions. Winners included Andrea Burnette, DTM,

Mark Oshman, DTM; Quinton Goodman, CC; Flash Black, ATMB, CL

and and Clayton Wraith, CC, Skyline Raconteurs. And, closing out the Conference was District 63’s Humorous Speech Contest. Winners included Mark Oshman, DTM, Hixson Toasmtasters; Quinton Goodman, CC, Parthenon Toastmasters Club; and Flash Black, ATMB, CL, Central Communicators Toastmasters Club, Speechmasters Advanced Toastmasters Club, and Fountain City Club.

“The best humorous speech contest I’ve seen in years! All five contestants would be winners in other districts!” declared Ed Tate.

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Jimmie Roberts, DTM

Shaun Markwardt

First time conference presenter, Shaun Markwardt presented “Getting Ahead of Your Challenges” which included ideas for:

Identifying challenges related to club goals that you and other clubs face;

Develop solutions to the challenges; and Recognize resources to help with these

challenges.

Rivergate

Toastmasters

Club; John Breb,

ACG, ALB,

Chattanooga

Chatters

Advanced

Toastmasters;

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FREE WEBINAR

Mark your Calendars for Judges Training, What to look for in a good

speech?

When: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

With special guest trainer Maureen Zappala

District 63 Wall of Fame The following people obtained educational achievements from September 29 through October 26, 2015: Competent Communicators Helena E. Dagadu; Michael J. Farina; Heidi Johnson; Lawrence Johnson; John L. Lloyd; Tamela A. Pitts; Advanced Communicator Bronze Kris Sellers Advanced Communicator Silver Advanced Communicator Gold Competent Leaders Leo Bourque; Jillyn K. Parker; Paul; Keith; Yogesh Sharma; Paul E Taylor; Elaine Wilder; Jackie Witkowski; Advanced Leader Bronze Julie E. Fisher Advanced Leader Silver Wendy W. Lick Distinguished Toastmaster Wendy W. Lick LDREXE Lindy P. Estep

EDUCATION AND SERVICE

AWARD WINNERS

Area Governor of the Year - Flash Black Division Governor of the Year – Maureen Merritt

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Paul Fee Award - Stacci Thomas

And Herman Thompson Award -

Speak Up NASBA

Flash Black,

ATMB, CL Maureen Merritt, ACB

Jene Coy, DTM Lindy Estep, ACS, ALB Alan Hitchcock, ACG, CL

Outstanding Toastmasters of the Year for 2014-15

include Jene Coy, Lindy Estep and Alan Hitchcock

Stacci Thomas, DTM

Educational and Services awards for 2014-2015

year that were presented at the 2016 D63 Fall

Conference included:

Members awarded their Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) medals included: Lisa Blackmon, Christopher Chaney, Jene Coy, Kristen James, Leona Johnson, Heyda Negron-Perez, Kim Santan, Stacci Thomas, and Michal Tolon. To view the DTM Ceremony click HERE. For a complete list of Educational and Service

awards click HERE.