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It’s time again to plan and attend club
officer trainings. The next full Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI)
session occurs December 8 and more sessions will occur in January, 2013 (please see District
25’s online calendar for details). Meanwhile,
your district leaders want to draw your attention to two key points:
a new online training module.
Toastmasters International recently
announced the addition of club officer training to the Toastmasters Learning Connection, its online training service. The new module will help
incoming officers prepare for their roles, addressing each officer’s
responsibilities and how officers should collaborate. While perhaps useful, the
new club officer e-learning program does NOT replace face-to-face trainings.
The requirement for attending those types of trainings remains; the new program
is only a supplement to existing TLI programs. TI
may someday allow online training (with a waiver of in-person training) for
officers of clubs in districts with far-flung geographic areas that cross
international borders or seas. But that possible change hasn’t happened yet; it
may never apply to D25, where club officers anywhere can attend in-person
trainings easily from their choice of multiple convenient locations.
You
must have at least four officers trained during each set of district-sponsored TLIs for your club to earn a
Distinguished Club Program (DCP) point. This is true no matter how:
Often your club meets
Many officers attended summer TLIs
the DCP point for club officer trainings is earned only if your club has at
least four officers attend both sets of TLIs. This requirement exists because
attending officer trainings is essential to a club’s success. Most clubs
operate with six-month officer terms, so a new set of officers must be trained
in the second half of each Toastmasters year. So, if your club has already
earned a Super 7 ribbon this year, go ahead and get another. If your club came
up short of seven trained during the summer TLIs, please help the club make an
improvement this time. Remember that training even one more officer can make a
difference in your club’s results.
In
conclusion, you know that sending your club officers to TLIs is the right thing
to do, so as they’ve said famously at Nike, “Just Do It!”