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John Fleming
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 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: Re: I Made The Commitment |
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:35:44 -0700 (PDT), while chained to a
desk in the scriptorium "rich.hopkins@gmail.com"
<rich.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | $Sounds like a great program John - way to be creatively inspiring!
$Were I in your club, I might just get a bunch of dual memberships out
$of other clubs to get the prize........
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With roughly 80 Toastmasters clubs in the greater Edmonton
area (Edmonton, Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Spruce Grove,
Leduc, Beaumont, Fort Saskatchewan and about 20 other
communities), most clubs seem to have a dual member or four.
And dual members are often very active in all the clubs they
belong to.
| Quote: | $On Jun 14, 6:55 pm, John Fleming <nos...@sprynet.com> wrote:
$> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:43:56 -0400, while chained to a desk
$> in the scriptorium p c <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
$> > $John Fleming wrote:
$> > $> Well, it took a little soul searching.
$> > $
$> > $> I have given them three stretch peformance targets that are
$> > $> a bit beyond what the club has ever achieved, and challenged
$> > $> them to deliver on two of the three. The targets are -
$> > $
$> > $> - 33% membership growth (to 24 paid members)
$> > $> - Average of four guest per meeting
$> > $> - Average member attendance of 80%
$> > $
$> > $> For the purposes of the averages, the campaign runs from
$> > $> September 1 to May 31.
$> > $
$> > $> I don't think the club can do it, and their job is to prove
$> > $> me wrong.
$> > $
$> > $Excellent goals, John. The third one (80% attendance) is probably
$> > $unrealistic but I wouldn't change it.
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$> It is an average, and not a minimum.
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$> > $The next step is to tell your club what each member and officer should
$> > $do to meet those goals and what you plan to do to help them meet those
$> > $goals. The "telling" should be asking, telling, and doing.
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$> Step one for the club to do it, to borrow an idea from sales
$> trainer Tom Hopkins, is to aim to blow those targets right
$> out of the water.
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$> If the club aims to get *just* 24 members, they'll finish
$> below 24. Someone will drop out in the spring or get
$> transferred part way through the year for work reasons. And
$> the club winds up with 22 or maybe 23.
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$> If the club aims to get *just* 4 guests per meeting, they
$> get a bad run late in the year, and the average drops below
$> 4. (Though given Joy's input, I'm considering lowering this
$> target to 3. I don't want to take it lower or it will seem
$> too much like business as usual.)
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$> Similar kind of argument for 80% attendance. If the club
$> members work for 85% or even 90%, they are much more likely
$> to reach the 80%. If they aim for just 80%, they'll end up
$> with something like 75% or even 70%.
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$> Anyway, under the rules of the game, the cluib only needs to
$> achieve two of the three. Any two.
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$> While the best way to get two is to aim for all three, if
$> they come up short on attendance, as long as they get guests
$> and membership, I will be horribly embarrassed, have to dye
$> my hair some interesting shade like bright green, and wear a
$> skirt to a Toastmasters meeting.
$
$> Oh, and given my reputation as a short haired,
$> professionally dressed Toastmaster, some of the members who
$> have know me for over a decade might try extra hard a) just
$> to see if I will follow through, and b) see me in a totally
$> different light.
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$> --
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$> John Fleming
$> Edmonton, Canada
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$> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O
$> And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O
$> With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,
$> Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP
$> Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O- Hide quoted text -
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John Fleming, DTM
Edmonton, Canada
Attitude Boosters Toastmasters (7022-42) - Member
Chamber Toastmasters (5594 - 42) - VP Membership elect
A scientist can discover a new star but he
cannot make one. He would have to ask an
engineer to do it for him.
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