Kelowna Toastmasters Achieves President’s Distinguished Club!
It has been an exciting year for Kelowna Toastmasters Club #2796! We definitely had
some fun and exciting times along with improving our communication and leadership
skills.
Early in the year I challenged everyone to write down their 10 achievable goals for the
year ahead and post it where it could be seen on a daily basis. We started our year with a
theme “Achieving Greatness Together 10/10” with Passion, Service and Leadership.
I created this anagram to add on to the theme for our club. This was to be
Goal orientated
Resourceful
Enthusiastic
Action orientated and
True to yourself
Set your goals to be great and the members as a whole will “Achieve Greatness
Together”
Well we did it! Kelowna Toastmasters Club will be receiving the President’s
Distinguished Club – the highest level of recognition available from Toastmasters
International. The club met the membership prerequisite and achieved at least nine of
the 10 goals. This award has taken the entire term to complete and has been the most
rewarding as this goal was last received in the 2004/2005 year. Congratulations
everyone!
The Kelowna Club was also awarded the Talk up Toastmaster – for adding five new,
dual or reinstated members during February and March. These months are the hardest to
bring new members into the club as people are so busy at this time of year. Many thanks
to the new website, and the members who really talked about the benefits of Toastmasters
to their friends and co-workers.
It takes a team of dedicated members to achieve these awards. The executive members
were outstanding as they helped to motivate the club members to Achieve Greatness
Together with Passion, Service and Leadership which was the Motto for District 21.
Wow!
The Kelowna Club will break for the summer months but we will be back again Monday
September 12, 2011 for another fantastic year. The incoming executive has taken their
training sessions for their roles and is extremely passionate about continuing the service
and leadership to help all our members to continue their personal growth.
Sharleen McBlain
