Retaining Members Toast of Broadway
Awards
What awards
For what?
Agenda changed
Factor in time in the evening
Form factor of award (certs or handshakes or a little badge)
Speaker of the Night (Speeches?)
Plaque passed around
Best Evaluator (Decided by General Evaluator?)
Best Table Topics (Decided by Topics Master?)
Most Improved Speaker
Criteria and Feedback
Validation?
Who decides on awards
Popular vote? Talley Vote (OR APP????)
Committee Vote
President Vote
Balance Attention Given to Members Versus Guests
Remember the member
Meeting variety
Meeting at a restaurant
Potluck
BRING A PLATE!
Picnic at the Domain!!! Cheeeeseeeeee, salami
Social Events
Cadence?
every 2 months? or quarterly
Promotion of event needs to be a lot in advance
Budget for each and stick to it
Recurring event
Self funded - meet ups BBQ BYO Food/Drink
Find out the apetite for social events?
When do we do this (during the week or weekend)
Planning!!!
Variety of Locations!
Opt in for members and at a different times from our normal meeting!
New Members Know what they are doing (when new to role)
Make sure members know the roles are on the website
Hyperlink the link to the role guides for all members and including a line around the lines of "if you aren't sure about your role check out the role descriptions here" https://toastofbroadway.org.nz/speaking-resources/
Toastmaster of the Evening making sure experienced members are on replacement roles
People dropping out last minute
what are the consequences of pulling out last minute?
Member find someone to replace them (send an email directly out to members)
They lose their chance at the role (especially speaking role)
How do you balance being fair to members and accountability
Reduces peoples time to prepare
Specify the timeframe members need to give notification within
Why do people drop out? This is the bigger question!
People let VP Education know when they have holidays in advance
People have speeches planned so they have one up their sleeve
Speech craft courses & open meetings
attract new members
To become a distinguished Toastmaster you need to facilitate this a speech craft course
District help to advertise?
Every club should do it at least once a year
create an intensive course for people
Three Speeches Per Meeting?
create more space in the meeting i.e. for awards or other segments
Do we want to roster people on?
What do we want? More opportunities to speak or awards and recognition
Members Must Talk Every night
Mentorship
Build out the mentorship framework
Members have learning goals that they are working towards
What's in it for me
Subtopic
How can members mentor better?
Sustainability
Reducing paper waste
project the agendas
Open Meeting
proactive in getting more members
Existing members bring people along
Demo meeting (1 speaker - 1 evaluator - inspirational speech)
Bring along a guest
World speech day
every club do an open meeting somewhere fun!
live broadcast