Effective Leadership In A Toastmasters Club First Club

Effective Leadership In A Toastmasters Club First Club Officers Training Session July 23, 2005 Ngee Ann Polytechnic @ LT 73 B 1. 00 – 6. 00 pm “If you want leadership, you shouldn’t have it”S 1 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

What is Leadership? “Qualities that make someone a Good Leader or the Methods a Leader use to do his or her job” 1 ¢ Measurable, Learnable, Do-able ¢ Leader or Non-Leader ¢ Discontinuity ¢ “All great artists break the rules” 2 2 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

How to be Effective? Learn Skills, Apply and Get Results ¢ Doing Right Things or Doing Things Right? ¢ E = mc 2 ¢ E = Effectiveness ¢ m = motivation ¢ c = capability ¢ 3 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

In A Toastmasters Club ¢ ¢ ¢ 4 “The Effective Leader serves Four Masters: 1 Client (Members) 2 Team as a Whole (Club) 3 Team’s Individual Members (Exco) and the Mission” 2 “You talks and your walk talks but your walk talks louder than your talks” 3 “Because we all join Toastmasters with different skills levels, our weaknesses have different reasons” 4 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

Decision Making Process Personal / Consensus ¢ Dynamic / Changing ¢ Ongoing – Decision 3 x ¢ True Professionalism ¢ Pharmacist versus Surgeon ¢ Dr Mahathir versus Dr Koh Woon Puay ¢ 5 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

Setting Goals Company goes for Profit ¢ Toastmasters go for DCP Goals ¢ “No Goals, Success is by Chance” ¢ A Beginning/ Middle/ An End – Guideposts & Milestones ¢ Quantitative / Qualitative Measures ¢ 6 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

DMP Model Meeting Agenda/Club Motto/Theme ¢ Club President’s Speeches ¢ Role Players ¢ DCP – “Threshold, President’s, 10/10” ¢ Raffles Town Toastmasters - Case ¢ Election – Combative & Competitive ¢ 7 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

Key Points – Lead & Succeed Global and District Support ¢ Proven Structure ¢ Your Team - Membership ¢ Your Predecessors ¢ World Class Materials – Manuals ¢ The Stage Time - Meetings ¢ 8 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021

References 1: ¢ 2: ¢ 3: ¢ 4: ¢ 5: ¢ S: ¢ 9 Collins Cobuild Dictionary, p 877 The Toastmasters, Oct 2004 The Toastmasters, July 2004 Dr John Maxwell – Right to Lead The Toastmasters, Jan 2005 The Toastmasters, Nov 2003 kim-see teo, area gov D 4 12/22/2021