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The Benefits of Being a Member of Two or More Toastmasters Clubs
The Benefits of Being a Member of Two or More Toastmasters Clubs
by Doni Oliveros, MSP, PMP (Date written: October 26, 2018)
Recently, I was asked why do I have many clubs. I answered the obvious - to speed up the development of my communication and leadership skills. The more speeches I make, the better I become in public speaking. The more leadership roles I do, the better I become in leading teams, committee, or people.
But more than these, having two or more Toastmasters clubs provide a mixture of learnings and insights gained from its members. Each club has their set of evaluators and some of them do not club hop. For example, in our club, The Emerald Toastmasters Club, our competent communicators such as Sandi Alora has never gone to another club. Our charter president, Mags Mendoza, tried being the GE in Ortigas Center once and hasn't done it again. Our immediate past president Alexa Balbuena and Reinier Dungca have been doing it once in a while. Nenette Umali and Karissa Revilla are still to do this. My point here is that, public speaking is not a science; it is an art. Thus, there is no hard and fast rules on how to do it. So, each of us, especially the evaluators, have a separate set of ideas on how to do it properly. Point: if you club hop, you'll learn from these general evaluators or evaluators in other clubs, areas, divisions or districts. Something that you may not be able to have if you only attend meetings in one club.
The second reason why it is better to have another club is the chance to learn from the stories of the club members. We all have our own stories and it is better to learn from other people's. Also, if you are dreaming of becoming a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), being exposed to more people in the area, division or even district will definitely help. Visibility, reputation and network will certainly become handy when appointment season comes. Most of the positions in the Toastmasters organization in the division and area levels are appointed rather than elected.
The third reason is that if you at least wants to win in the area level of speech contest, you can join a club in an area where members are not too competitive.
The fourth and the last reason why it is beneficial to have two or more clubs is that you will have more chances of helping new Toastmasters. As an example, I have 6 clubs and I have 8 mentees. I also learn from them and seeing them blossom in their Toastmasters journey is a joy. When they become better speakers than me, I sit there watching them happily that I have done something good in my life.
Below photo is my first meeting with President Angelica Valdez Licuanan of Tambuli Toastmasters Club. I was recently appointed as its Club Coach. Now I am one of their members and working very hard to meet my goal of getting Distinguished Club ribbon for them by the end of June 2019.
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