minutes of 2-04-11 meeting

Minutes Toastmasters Early Risers
Palo Alto Café. 2-4-11. 7a.m.

Attending: Philllip, Malcolm, Steve K., Jane, Stephanie, Eileen, and Connie

Issues discussed and resolutions:

Steve: Jane do teach-in for GE role?
Competent Leader manuals – what’s best way to get filled in?
Stay later to fill out?
Get points?
Jane: track? Let club know when we’re getting close?
Stephanie: we need two completed CL’s to get club points
First half of manual easier
Bribe? (with chocolate, like Josie used to do?)
Steve: take5 min at the end of meeting?; take time out of TT?
Do you know where your manual is?
Jane: after TT do 5 min of CL manual?
Malcolm: bring CL manual whenever have role. Look at manual and get someone to fill it out
Stephanie: wants it to be educational, (see page 76 for chart), look up role and find out about project. Read at home and do self-assessment.
Phillip: enhancement: open book at 6:25. Give to person at your left and rotate around the room. Need to improve.
Stephanie: at beg of meeting, TM ask people to dig out CL manual , give to person to your left. Also, at end, bribe with chocolate if finish.
Phillip: put leadership assignment on the agenda?
Stephanie: evaluate – how many hands up for who gets chocolate and publish the metrics (# people have manual; how many people fill it out?)

Malcolm as Vice President for Membership:
Make everyone who visits or new members feel welcome.
i.e. Greet, smile, make eye contact, positive experience, make space for them, enthusiasm
Phillip: “member since”? anyone just joined (like me?) add sticker to name tag? Or ribbon for visitors… Hand out brochure? Hand out old Toastmasters magazines?

Phillip: hasn’t been able to contribute what he wanted to -facebook, meetup
Stephanie: pick small piece of job and put it out for someone to do
Connie: how follow up with people on meetup? Answer: You can send a message to them.
Phillip: has gotten to Toasthost page and has credentials and loggin and wasn’t satisfied with photos. Interview people and take better pix.
Stephanie: ask people to submit photos?
Connie: right size photos, have to be correct aspect ratio
Phillip wants 1 minute interviews… Malcolm do interviews. Eileen can bring Flip for videos…who will volunteer to be interviewed?.

Eileen as Treasurer: need TT ribbons
Buy goodies to give away for CC and other achievements?
Stephanie: we just about meet our budget as it is.

Connie: has set up blog user ID ERTMSEC and whoever has password can use the blog (thus making things easier down the line) Need to send Connie a gmail user ID. So Connie can give people the right to be an author. And anyone can post a comment.


When meet? Fridays? (not for Eileen)
Wed?
Decided: 2nd Wed of the month, 7a.m., at the Palo Alto Café.
All welcome.