Congratulations To Division B Contest Winners

Congratulations to everyone with the Division B Contest and two the winners. We are with you to go all the way...

First Place Winner for both International and Table Topics: Matt Cross-Guillen!

Second Place International: Randall Parish

Second Place Table Topics: Roy Crawford

Taylor Ranch Toastmasters Host Small Business Owners Seminar! (Thanks Larry B.!)

How do you craft an effective sales presentation? First, you need to know a lot about your prospective customer so you can address how valuable your product or service might be.

This is the first of three seminars focusing on presentation skills for small business owners. You will learn a three-step process for assessing your customer’s needs prior to preparing your presentation, how to structure your presentation so it is logical and easy to follow, how to capture your audience in the first 30 seconds, and how to incorporate rehearsal into your everyday life. You will also learn the mistake that exists in over 80% of sales presentations and how to eliminate that error from your presentation.

This seminar will be presented twice. The first presentation will be Tuesday, April 29, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Taylor Ranch Community Center, 4900 Kachina St. NW. The second presentation will be Thursday, May 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the BioScience Center, 5901 Indian School Road NE. There is no cost for the seminar. However, you must register by sending your name to: larry@bosquecommunications. Please indicate which seminar you wish to attend. Attendance is limited to 21 members.

The second and third seminars, which will be presented later this year, will focus on incorporating effective stories into your presentation and the latest understanding of how to communicate with PowerPoint.

Larry Buelow, president of Bosque Communications LLC, will present the seminars. Since retiring from Lockheed Martin in 2008, Larry has focused his energy on mentoring and coaching young professionals in the Albuquerque area. He has successfully assisted small-business entrepreneurs in increasing sales and acquiring venture capital by creating succinct and dynamic presentations. Larry recently received his certification as a World Class Public Speaking Coach, one of only two in New Mexico. The processes developed under this program will enable you to communicate your message more succinctly and compose your presentations with far less effort.

District Proxy Update (Thanks TK)

- Each Club President and VPE has a vote (that is, clubs each get 2 votes)
- If the President and/or VPE is not attending the business meeting, they may give their vote - via proxy - to another member of the club (So the Area 22 Governor could carry Cherry Hills votes only if she is a member of the club)
- Each Toastmaster may carry a maximum of 2 votes
- DEC members get an additional vote as a DEC member; so DEC members may carry up to 3 votes
- DEC votes CANNOT be proxied.

To help with understanding, the proxy (see link below) also has this information.
- http://www.district23.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/D23-Business-Meeting-Proxy-Form.pdf

******************DIVISION B & C CONTEST LOCATION CHANGE*********************

NOTICE TO DIVISION B&C contestants, volunteers and guests!

Due to power being shut off at UNM tomorrow, the Division B speech contest is moved to the Del Norte Baptist Church Conference Center (not the church itself) on the southwest corner of Montgomery & San Pedro. Start time is 9:00 AM (contestants & officials be there at 8:30 AM).

Address is 6100 Montgomery Blvd. NE.


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A Test For Honeywell Sunrisers

In an effort to deliver a technical presentation working out of the Advanced Manual of the same name, this will serve as both pre-presenation notice and post presentation comments. Let us now see just how deserving the Honeywell Sunrisers 14 Year President Distinguished Club responds! Stay tuned, presentaion will be make on April 2nd and comments via this post should flood in!

Division B Club Contest Recognition!

Yes, the club contests are fully underway and the Area Contest are just around the corner! Please see below for reported Division B Club Contest winners. Thank you for your participation, congratulations and if you are a first place winner moving forward to the Area Contest good luck!

Area 22

Toastmasters @ TVC

First Place International: Matt Cross-Guillen
Second Place International:
First Place Table Topics: Matt Cross-Guillen
Second Place Table Topics: Grace Solis

Albuquerque Challenge

First Place International: Gail Rubin
Second Place International: Rany Cooper
First Place Table Topics: Luis Suarez
Second Place Table Topics: Randy Cooper

Area 23

Honeywell Speakwell

First Place International: Robin Vogsland
Second Place International: Visa Chidambaram
First Place Table Topics: Suleman Kiwanuka
Second Place Table Topics:

Last Chance TLI - Tubleweeds Club Meeting!

Are you just one short of 4 or that perfect 7? Attend the next Tumbleweeds meeting / Club officer training.

- This Saturday, Last Chance TLI, Feb 15
- 10:30am
- Cooper Art Studio 130 Quincy Street NE, ABQ

Let's get the rest of those officers trained!

Tumbleweeds speakers:
- Miguel
- Ells
- TK and Ted

Short business meeting afterwards.

Off-The-Cuff Club Finds A New Home!

The Albquerque Off-The-Cuff Club has found a new home!

The Off-The-Cuff Club will now be meeting at the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center, Classroom #6 every third Wednesday of the Month from 6PM-7PM. The address is 7521 Carmel Ave NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113.


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Here's how Off-The-Cuff Albuquerque Toastmasters works:

The Toastmaster chooses a broad meeting theme. Generally speakers create a speech that aligns with the meeting them, though there is quite a bit of latitude allowed in their topic. Speakers have five minutes to outline their speech. It's enough time to think up an opening, three points, and a conclusion.

Stop by for a visit and an have fun "off-The-Cuff"!

Contest Volunteers?

As Division B Governor, I am saluting some clubs that are already planning their contest! With that, and as much as I want to be at all of them, I am having challenges with Supporting the request. I am going to throw out clubs seeking volunteers in hopes some you just might be up for helping other clubs. Maybe plan your contest around another clubs and make it the best contest ever with sharing volunteers...club contest support swapping? Just a thought!

In the meantime, see the post below for the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce request for Volunteers! Would this help you, let me know the contest details and I will get posted! THANKS
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Hello Fellow Toastmaster’s,
I hope this message finds you well.

I am the VP of Education for the AHCC Toastmasters Club and also the Contest Chair for our upcoming Club Speech Contest. We are in need of Judge’s and volunteer’s for our contest.

The Club Speech Contest will be held on Friday, February, 14th, 2014 at 11:00 AM, at the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, located off of 4th Street and Avenida Cesar Chavez.

If you are available and would like to assist our club we would greatly appreciate it, please reach out to me at leah@sabiosystems.com or leddablue@msn.com and my telephone number is 505-417-2414.

If you are not available, perhaps you may know of others with interest, feel free to share my contact information with them. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

Regards,

Leah Pelletier
Accounting & Finance Recruiter - Team Lead
Sabio Systems
4520 Montgomery NE Suite #7
Albuquerque, NM 87109
(505) 792-8604 p
(505) 232-6967 f
leah@sabiosystems.com
www.sabiosystems.com

Spring Costest Planning

It is that time to begin planning for your journey, if you have not already, to becoming the World Champion of Public Speaking!

Clubs should begin planning Spring Contest Meetings to align with Area, Division and District Contest. On this site are resoureces for planning your contest...and below, are the contest dates. All should be aligned with the District Calendar. Thanks all for taking a look and a proactive interest!

Division B&C Make Up TLI January 23rd

The Division B&C Make Up TLI Session will be Thursday, January 23rd! The Location is at the UNM Student Union Building (SUB)Third Floor - we will kick it off at the Isleta Room and will be using the Fiesta A & B, Lobo A, Lobo B and Trail / Spirit for our break out training sessions.

Clubs who send at least 4 officers to training twice a year are more likely to be successful clubs. Districts rely on club officers to conduct the Toastmaster program and keep clubs healthy and successful. Officers need knowledge and tools. Trained officers can result in more satisfied members, better club meetings, and more members!

Share successes and share challenges with peers, help navigate the 2nd half of the TI year (or start a term, for semi-annually electing clubs).


If you have any questions, contact the Divsion B Governor (michael.s.carr@honeywell.com) or Division C Governor (jeburdette@msn.com).
See below map for location and parking notes reference for this TLI!

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If you park on the Campus, there will be charges for parking at $1.75hr OR park at your own risk. See Map below for parking, directions.

With a special thanks to Ryan Brown for support with getting our January 18th TLI location confirmed, I am glad to post this udpate and invite all Toastmasters to the January 18th TLI at UNM, Dane Smith Hall!We will kick off in room 125 and will be using rooms 223, 225, 226 and 229 for our break out training sessions.

Clubs who send at least 4 officers to training twice a year are more likely to be successful clubs. Districts rely on club officers to conduct the Toastmaster program and keep clubs healthy and successful. Officers need knowledge and tools. Trained officers can result in more satisfied members, better club meetings, and more members!

Share successes and share challenges with peers, help navigate the 2nd half of the TI year (or start a term, for semi-annually electing clubs).

In addition, the Divsion B Governor (michael.s.carr@honeywell.com) and Division C Governor (jeburdette@msn.com)hosting the TLI are still looking for presenters with officer training and possibly break out sessions. Please let them know if you are interested with supporting the event and polishing your presentation skills!

See below map for location and parking notes reference for this TLI!