accelerate your leadership skills
DESCRIPTION
A Leadership Development workshop delivered in the Toastmasters environment used to simulate, experience and reflect on effective leadership skills and how the Toastmasters Program supports their development. This workshop presented at the Toastmasters District 73 2012 Semi Annual Conference.TRANSCRIPT
Accelerating your leadership development
Eric Pace
DCPDCPAcknowledging Non Toastmasters
Controlling the jargon
President’sDistinguishedPresident’s
Distinguished
OfficerList
OfficerList
CCCC
DTMDTM
ACLACL
Let’s Discuss
Q: What is the job of a leader?
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Let’s Discuss
Q: What is the job of club leaders?
Let’s Discuss
Q: What is the job of club leaders?
A: To help successfully manage their club to meet the needs of the members.
Let’s Discuss
Q: How do we know that a club is being run successfully?
What is our measurement tool?
Let’s Discuss
The Distinguished Club Program
Let’s Discuss
1 Two Competent Communicators
2 Two More Competent Communicators
3 One Advanced Communicator
4 One more Advanced Communicator
5 One Leader (CL/AL) or DTM
6 One More Leader or DTM
7 Four New Members
8 Four More New Members
9 Minimum of four officers trained twice
10 One Dues Renewal and One Club Officer List submitted on time
Distinguished Club Program Goals
Last year’s D73 DCP results
What’s wrong with this graph?
Exercise 1 (groups of 6 to 10 people - 10 Minutes)
You are to take on the role of a District Leader
Q1: List the 3 top reasons why clubs do not achieve distinguished status.
Q2: List 3 strategies to resolve this situation.
Let’s discuss
You are to take on the role of a District Leader
Q1: List the 3 top reasons why clubs do not achieve distinguished status.
Q2: List three strategies to resolve this situation.
Exercise 2 (Approx. 4 per group – 8 minutes)
What leadership skills were required to conduct the previous exercise?
Leadership skills required
Strategic thinking
Facilitation skills
Communication
Systemic thinking
Decision making
Active listening
Lateral thinking Problem solving Delegation
Team dynamicsDeveloping motivation
Time management
Personality management
Interpersonal skills
Goal setting
Leadership skills required
Strategic thinking
Facilitation skills
Communication
Systemic thinking
Decision making
Active listening
Lateral thinking Problem solving Delegation
Team dynamicsDeveloping motivation
Time management
Personality management
Interpersonal skills
Goal setting
Conclusion
This workshop simulated a leadership exercise so that you could practice leadership skills.
Same goes for Toastmasters Club Leadership
Conclusion
If this many leadership skills are used to have a 10 minute discussion about the Distinguished Club Plan imagine what can be learnt by taking a year to actively implement one.
Any questions
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