I attended the TLI on July 8, 2011 at California State University, Dominguez Hills. As usual, I stayed for the whole day, first attending president’s training (I’m president this year for WLE Toastmasters club) and the advanced leadership training afternoon session.

As usual, I took notes in my iPhone – here’s what I came away with:

• Greet guests – guest packet? Greeting role? Guest seating?
• Themed meetings including ‘costume’ decor
• Run a backwards meeting
• Toastsourcecentral.Wordpress.com
• Co-role to help a 1st time functionary
• Should we share progress w/ members? Every meeting?
• More effective mentoring?
• Why are our officers officers?
• Have evaluators read objectives before start
• The “Nearly Competent” award at 5 speeches
• Have general evaluator show CL manual
• Assign CL evaluators
• Have SAA do a 2 min warning and mention manuals for both speakers and CLs
• Mentor on CL too
• General evaluator should briefly evaluate the evaluators
• VPM or VPPR should email guests

Hope that helps some of you in making your Toastmasters clubs even more brilliant!