{"id":6331,"date":"2011-07-09T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2011-07-24T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T16:35:16","slug":"my-notes-from-the-toastmasters-leadership-institute-tli-for-district-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/09\/my-notes-from-the-toastmasters-leadership-institute-tli-for-district-1\/","title":{"rendered":"My notes from the Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) for District 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-6331\">\n<p>I attended the TLI on July 8, 2011 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csudh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">California State University, Dominguez Hills<\/a>. As usual, I stayed for the whole day, first attending president&#8217;s training (I&#8217;m president this year for WLE Toastmasters club) and the advanced leadership training afternoon session.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I took notes in my iPhone &#8211; here&#8217;s what I came away with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greet guests &#8211; guest packet? Greeting role? Guest seating?<\/li>\n<li>Themed meetings including &#8216;costume&#8217; decor<\/li>\n<li>Run a backwards meeting<\/li>\n<li>Toastsourcecentral.Wordpress.com<\/li>\n<li>Co-role to help a 1st time functionary<\/li>\n<li>Should we share progress w\/ members? Every meeting?<\/li>\n<li>More effective mentoring?<\/li>\n<li>Why are our officers officers?<\/li>\n<li>Have evaluators read objectives before start<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Nearly Competent&#8221; award at 5 speeches<\/li>\n<li>Have general evaluator show CL manual<\/li>\n<li>Assign CL evaluators<\/li>\n<li>Have SAA do a 2 min warning and mention manuals for both speakers and CLs<\/li>\n<li>Mentor on CL too<\/li>\n<li>General evaluator should briefly evaluate the evaluators<\/li>\n<li>VPM or VPPR should email guests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope that helps some of you in making your Toastmasters clubs even more brilliant!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-6331\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 6331);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-6331\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-6331\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s training (I&#8217;m president this year for WLE Toastmasters club) and the advanced leadership training afternoon session. As usual, I took notes in my iPhone &#8211; here&#8217;s what I came away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2363],"tags":[940,658],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toastmasters","tag-california-state-university-dominguez-hills","tag-toastmasters-international"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}