All Officers, Except Paul

Not sure what happened that Paul wasn’t there, but the remainder of the club officers started October with a breakfast meeting.

Andrew called us together and passed out copies of his agenda.

Craig, our webmaster, said that all the Officer’s had completed the questionaires and they had been posted. He has also been working on the double email issue when the weekly meeting role assignments are sent. Plus he has been trying to figure out how to size pictures correctly so they display well on the site. Craig will be travelling most of October and so may not get much done this month.

Since Paul wasn’t there we discussed only one item in Membership. We need more guest packets. Andrew will contact Paul to discuss.

Marvin, our Education VP, discussed our current status toward the Distinguished Club awards. We currently have 6 points and need only seven or more to qualify. If we can get 9 we will repeat as President’s Distinguished Club. (See the page on this Blog which shows the points we can get and our current status.) Marvin is certain we can get the 7th point (Officer training in January) but is concerned about the points for completed CC manuals. There followed a discussion about getting all of our new members enough speech opportunities to complete the CC Manual. Craig remembered that in the past the club has held a second meeting in some weeks devoted entirely to new members giving speeches in the CC Manual.

Gene, our PR VP, has found that we can get free advertising in three newspapers (Plano, Dallas Business Journal, Collin County Business Journal). he plans to submit our meeting information to each of these within the week. Gene explained our Detractor Program (see the Detractor Program page in this blog) and asked for time to explain it at the next meeting. He also plans to write an article about the program for submission to District 50 and the Toastmasters International.

Stephen J, our treasurer, said that 23 people had renewed for this six-month period. The new ribbons for “Best” at each meeting had arrived and were given to Roger for storage.

Roger, our Sergeant-at-Arms, reported that we seem to have enough supplies in the cabinet and that he has had a lot of help setting up the room for club meetings.

Discussion Topics:

Mentor Plan: Marvin has set it up and he encouraged all to get with the mentees and help them understand the roles that happen every week as well as assisting them with the first few speeches.

Recognition: We will set up a club-level award for people completing their fifth CC speech called the “Nickel Award.” Chuck will create the certificates based on Marvin informing him they are needed.

Leadership Track: We discussed emphasizing that people bring their CL manuals so they can get credit for the various roles they have each week. This also helps by making sure they understand what the role actually does and what it means to do it well.

New Officers: Andrew will ask Mike, as Past President, to help discern the next group of officers for the club.

Meeting ajourned on-time and everyone enjoyed their breakfast.

Leadership with Acumen

Andrew started the meeting right on time and introduced Bill B to lead the invocation and pledge. Andrew then left because of another commitment.

Mary was our Toastmaster and began the meeting by describing how M&Ms are like leadership. She also left us all with a small package of M&Ms. Mary introduced her helpers: Brian as Grammarian; Gene as Ah Counter; Craig as both Timer and Vote Counter, which is something we decided not to do again.

Our speakers were:

Chuck talking about “Your Biggest Asset”.

Rick discussing the best way to spend five minutes a day and save your teeth. Fit right in with the M&Ms because he gave us all toothbrushes.

Tonye gave his “Groom’s Speech” and we all wish him well on his Wedding this Saturday.

Mike lead our Table Topics on Leadership and called on two of our returning guests: Ali and Joshua, and two of our newer members Morry and Pete.

The meeting evaluations were lead by Barbara and included Marvin, Roger and Jerry.

Our JokeMaster Carol told three great jokes. We only groaned at the second one. The others we laughed.

Awards were given to Ali for Table Topics; Jerry for Best Evaluation and Chuck for Best Speaker.

Mary returned control to Marvin as the presiding officer. Everyone was invited again to Tonye’s wedding and Chuck announced that no has yet won the free breakfast. Officer’s meeting for October is Thursday at 7:00 am.

See you next week.