Officers Trained

Now you can sit back, relax and enjoy your ride with Lubbock TM 884, because your officers for this term had been trained this morning. Yes, we were trained. Four of us attended the Toastmaster Leadership Institute (TLI) this morning. Some updates for our members that we found out this morning.

Club 884 "Allegiance"
From July 1st 2008 onwards, Club 884 in TM organization chart after the district change is as follow:
Area: 61
Division: F
Region: III

Speeches Outside TM Club
At most two speeches from every TM Manual can be given outside TM Club. Though there was a debate whether giving a manual speech in other TM club is considered as outside speech or not, that's still up for individual interpretation.

International Speech Contest
A judge can be disqualified if he/she does not meet the qualifications or is proven to be unobjective in the judging or being influenced by others.
The identity of Tie-Breaker Judge should be known by the Chief Judge only.
Tie-Breaker Judge should rank ALL contestants based on his/her judging where as other judges will provide only First, Second and Third place contestants to the Chief Judge.
Under no circumstances should the Tie-Breaker Judge's vote be revealed, except when a tie occurs.

To "Spice" Things Up In Weekly Meeting
Several things that club could do to break the routine of a Toastmaster meeting:
Pot-luck meeting. Members will not know what their duties are until before the meeting, where each member will draw from a hat for their roles for the meeting.
Reverse meeting. Meeting order is reverse, i.e. Club business by Presiding Officer, Awarder present award, General Evaluator evaluates the meeting, General Evaluator calls upon individual evaluators for evaluations, then Speakers present his/her speech, Toastmaster introduces the Speakers, Table Topics, Toastmaster opens the meeting, Presiding officer introduce the Toastmaster, Invocation/Pledge and Sargeant at Arms calls the meeting to order.