First meeting for 2012

We had a break over Christmas and the new year.  Now our meetings start again on Wednesday, January 18.  Our new Vice President Education, Greg Lynn, will be sending out the program very soon.

Coming up in 2012

It will be a mix of the new and the old.  There will be new members – in fact during the break Hugh joined and will be at the meeting on January 18.  There will be visitors.  Several have contacted us during the break and will be coming along to see how we function and how they will benefit from joining us.  It’s alway a pleasure to experience the Icebreakers from our new members as we learn fascinating things about their background and their hopes and aspirations.

Our current members will be continuing their progress through their Speech Manuals and lifting their skills as they do so.  Awards will be completed.  Honours will be received.  Perhaps some of the Bowling Club’s overhead fans will be replaced or serviced.  Perhaps.

The website will be redesigned

Yes, it’s a great website already, but it can be better, particularly to bring it more into line with the Toastmasters International rebranding exercise carried out in 2011.  It will take about a month, but don’t be surprised if the appearance changes.  It’s a new year – we need new approaches.

We have some new Club Officers

Have a look at  the webpage showing our Current Club Officers. Three of the Officers are new this term – Greg, Heljo and Tim.

Our Officers will be attending Toastmaster Leadership Institute training in February. Apart from the benefit in their knowledge and experience, this will give us our tenth goal in the Distinguished Club Program. Our Club is the only one to have a completely unbroken record of all 10 Goals in the Program. We will be maintaining that this year as well.  You can see us leading the way in our District at Successful Clubs 2001/12.

What are your goals for this year?

We all have our own reasons for joining Victoria Quay Toastmasters.  Make certain you get what you need from our club this year.

Posted by David Nicholas DTM
Victoria Quay Webmaster
Vice President Membership
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Come and meet Heljo’s partner

Heljo’s partner Alan can’t join Victoria Quay because he is a very active member of the choir “Showtime Chorus”.  Sometimes he is able to come to our meetings, but we don’t see enough of him.

Now we can see him and hear him with the choir on Saturday afternoon, June 18 in Shelley.

Download the Flyer to get all the details.

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David Nicholas 6 times DTM

David Nicholas has just achieved his 6th Distinguished Toastmaster award.  What an achievement.  This puts David in the top echelons of  Toastmasters from all over the world.

David, on behalf of the Victoria Quay Toastmasters Club, which David  was a founding member of 16 years ago, and its members,  I would like to congratulate you, not only for your DTM achievement but for your years of dedication, passion and mentor-ship for our club and many other clubs and members who have benefited from your assistance.

David is a skillful, supportive and positive Toastmaster who has helped many people over the years achieve their goals within TMI and in particular within  WA,  He has been a long time and influential  leader within the TM organisation and is recognised for his outstanding effort.

David has been one of the driving forces behind WA being awarded its own district.  Well done David from all of us a Victoria Quay.

Regards , Peter Law – President

The Parmelia Hilton is the only place to be 21 – 22 May 2011 if you are serious about Public Speaking, as a matter of fact if you are only slightly interested  about Public Speaking it will be the place to be as this will be our District 73 Convention next year.

It is also the end of an era and the start of a new one for WA.  WA will be breaking away from SA, Vic and Tas to form their own District 17.  It is also our last chance as WA Toastmasters to meet up with and  go up against our Eastern States partners head to head in our four speech contests.  Not only that but there will be the big dinner, ball and the birth of our new district.

Our Club will be able to pay for our club member registrations for those attending and I am thinking that will be bulk of us as a convention is worth attending, having been to last years convention.

For more information go to District 73 Website .

See you all there.

Cheers!

Peter

Hello, Welcome to Victoria Quay Toastmasters.

Heljo Cameron

My name is Heljo Cameron and I was the club president for the last financial year.

When I joined Toastmasters I thought it was only about public speaking, yet I have found that it is a lot more. For me, Toastmasters is the ultimate personal growth experience and it is a lot cheaper than the personal growth workshops which I attended in my younger days.

Without going into too much detail about the things which I have learnt or am still learning (there are so many), I have provided a list, which I hope is self-explanatory. Even so, you may wish to come along and talk me about these things:

• Overcoming fear.
• Learning to have more interesting interactions with people on a one-to-one basis.
• Expanding my mind – looking at things in new ways.
• Overcoming self-doubt.
• Being flexible and stepping in to do things spontaneously.
• Being able to be brilliant one day and less effective the next and not berating myself with self-destructive criticism.
• Increasing my self-esteem.
• Thinking more quickly.
• Being more concise.
• Overcoming the fear of winning/learning how to win.
• Overcoming the fear of losing /learning how to lose.
• Being committed on an ongoing basis, even when cold, hungry, tired or unprepared.
• Realising that it’s not all about me.
• Working in a team towards common goals, yet at times doing things for myself, such as competing against my team mates.
• Finding out that when I compete, I am really only competing against myself.
• Discovering the times that I am most creative.
• Being given a licence for experimenting with new ideas and new ways of presenting things.
• Being really listened to.
• Improving my analytical skills.
• Allowing others to support me.
• Learning how to be more supportive towards others – encouraging and motivating them to help them meet their goals.

The Victoria Quay club has always been successful and I believe that certain people who founded the club are superb role models and make the club as wonderful as it is. I am still in the process of learning to be the mentor and coach that I would like to be.

Last year shortly after I became president I was unable to speak effectively for two months as a result of an operation. Club members gave me much needed support and allowed me to carry out minor roles before I could speak properly again. I believe that the fact that I was a Toastmaster and had to re-learn to project my voice actually helped me to regain my ability to speak. I thank everyone who supported me at that time and even those who have joined since – all you have left you own particular mark on the club.

Thank you Victoria Quay for an extraordinary year!