Elizabeth Wilson's Resources
When one our members, Elizabeth Wilson, DTM stood for the position of International Director, she created a website as part of her campaign. That website included material that she had developed over the years for use in her Training Sessions within Toastmasters. Elizabeth has now made this material available for archiving on this, her club website.
Here are links to Elizabeth's many resources that can now be found on this website. Please feel free to copy and use them as you wish. All files are in Acrobat Reader (PDF) format.
Session Handout Notes
- Table Topics (making miniature speeches)
- Table Topics Unlimited (a great variety of alternative topic session ideas)
- Guidelines for Delivering Effective Evaluations
- The + and - Technique of Evaluation (complete with guide sheet)
- Speech Contest Judging (a comprehensive handout supporting the TI Speech Contest Judges Training Program that is also a stand alone guide.)
- All About Microphones
- The Why, How and What of Overhead Projectors
Club Operation / Officer Training
- Time Management for Toastmaster Leaders
- Area Council Education Session Ideas
- Head Table Protocol and Proprieties
- Summary of How to Form a new Community Toastmasters Club
- "Scripting" a Service Encounter or How to Turn Guests into Members
- Putting Excitement into Clubs with Theme Meetings (Detailed ideas for 21 different types of theme meetings that were produced in a large Workshop conducted for Presidents and VPEs in District 70.)
- How to have Quality Club Meetings
- Club Quality Audit (A questionnaire based of the Moments of Truth module. After using this heavily at Club Officer Training, an interesting feature has emerged. When a group of officers completes this honestly about their club, it is found that the number of standards met closely relates to the number of active members in the club.)
Games Toastmasters Can Play
Elizabeth Wilson and Gary Wilson have developed and used many games to enhance training sessions and club meetings. They are designed to add both stimulation and involvement to the sessions whilst reinforcing learning, because "People learn best in moments of enjoyment".
Elizabeth and Gary have presented sample presentations of different sets of these games at 3 District 70 Conferences, the Down Under Convention and the Toastmasters International Convention at Las Vegas.
All the details of the games, their sample handouts and other useful features of these presentations have been transferred to the District 70 website as part of their use for Club Officer Training.
Please if you wish any advice about the application of these games.