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District Director's Message
November 2015

Let’s take stock of where we find ourselves today!

Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

Four months have passed since the term started and it is a great privilege to share my thoughts with you.

In my opening address at the District Semi-Annual Conference at NTU on 24 Oct 2015, I shared that, to date, the district broke many records such as:

1. We achieved 100% club officers’ list submission before 30 June 2015.

2. We achieved 94.2% of at least 4 club officers sent to COT1, that is, out of 208 base clubs, 196 sent at least 4 club officers to COT1. We only achieved 88.66% last term!

3. We achieved 95.3% membership payment before October dues date—201 clubs out of 211 clubs (including 3 new clubs). We only achieved 90% last term. To date, we are ranked No.6 in the world!

4. For the very first time, the district reached the finals of the World Championship of Public Speaking. Manoj Vasudevan ACS, CL, from Toastmasters Club of Singapore and Marine Parade TMC, placed third in the prestigious competition after several eliminating rounds that began six months ago, along with nine final contestants. It is the world's largest speech contest with about 30,000 participants in about 100 countries.

At this point, I would like to thank all Members, Club Officers, Area Directors, Division Directors and District Senior Officers for the time and efforts contributed to our clubs, areas, divisions and district. I am very sure that together, we shall continue to break many more records and achieve the best results we could ever have by 31 May 2016--before the term ends!

As we enter the fifth month, let’s ask ourselves a few tough questions. The most important of those questions is whether you, as members are enjoying the Toastmasters learning journey.

This is the time to take stock of where we find ourselves now, what have we done and learnt that will contribute to the success of our personal development and/or for our clubs, being the club leaders. And then, we take immediate action to improve those that we didn’t do well and also work on those that we missed, continuing to monitor the progress. I am sure that we will achieve the success by meeting our goals at the end of the term.

As quoted by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley: Purpose determine the good, marks the path, and furnishes the motion power.

For Senior District Officers and together with our members, we all have our District Vision and Goals, the success in meeting our goals is relying upon our members’ contributions too!

District Critical Success Factors:

We target to achieve President Distinguished District goals by 31 May 2016:

Goal 1. 10% Net Membership Payment Growth (11,359 to12,495 Membership Payment) 
             Pay your dues on time, help your club retain members by providing positive learning  

             experiences and recruit more new members by bringing guests to your club meetings.
             Think about what you gained as a member of Toastmasters. By inviting others to join, you

             give them the opportunity to benefit as well.
 

Read this: From Prospect to Guest to Members

Goal 2.  10% Net Club Growth (208 to 229 Clubs, net growth of 21 new clubs with no club loss) 
             We target 2 new clubs net growth by each Division. The District has 11 divisions. 
             As members, you can share and expand the Toastmasters benefits to your organization 

             and/or  the Community Centre near you by forming more new clubs.
            

Read this: How to Build a Toastmasters Club – contact your Area Director for assistance.

Goal 3.  75% Distinguished Clubs (71% to 75%)
             Do your projects, hold meeting appointment roles, complete your education awards, help your

             club achieve more DCP Goals, go the extra miles to achieve the best that you ever have

             before! “One-Step-Up Double Award”  will be presented to non-distinguished clubs last term for achieving

             Distinguished Club status this term, that which Make A Difference for their clubs!

Read this: How to be Distinguished Club

It is important for us to update our members on district progress in the Distinguished District Program, including future trends and issues. We have posted the 2nd District Executive Committee and 1st District Council Reports at http://www.district80.org/resources.htm . We will post the meeting minutes as soon as it is ready. Since then District is still progressing, we shall celebrate more achievements at the next 3rd District Executive Committee and 2nd District Council Meeting on 20 May 2016.
 

Together we can make the most memorable Toastmasters learning journey of our term!

Let’s all stay focused!

With warm regards,

Tay Yiang Ping DTM
96221803

District Director 2015-2016

District 80, Make Members Matter

2nd DLT Opening Address - Don't Miss this presentation on 21 November 2015

盘点绩效·做个小结！

亲爱的讲演会友：大家好！

转眼之间，本届讲演会已经运作了4个月，我有机会在这里和大家分享我的看法和想法，感到非常荣幸。

2015年10月24日，我在南洋理工大学举行的区域年中大会致开幕词时，跟大家分享了到当天为止，本区域已经打破了许多项记录，例如：

1.      我们在2015年6月30日之前，达到将100%分会执委名单呈报给总部的目标。
 

2.      我们达到有94.2%的分会，派出至少4名执委参加“第一次分会执委培训课”的目标。208个分会当中，有196个分会至少派出4名执委出席第一次执委培训课。我们在上一届只达到88.66%。

3.      我们在10月份缴交会费截止日期之前，达到95.3%分会的会员已缴会费之目标。换句话说，211个分会当中，有201个分会已缴费。上一届，我们只达到90%。到目前为止，我们在全世界的排名是第六位。
 

4.  本区域演讲代表，史无前例地杀进“世界公开演讲锦标赛”的大决赛。来自新加坡讲演会和马林百列讲演会的高级银级讲员暨胜任领袖曼诺 (Manoj Vasudevan)，在赛前6个月，经过几轮的淘汰赛，连同9名参赛者杀进这项享有盛名的锦标赛，并脱颖而出荣获季军。大约100个国家有大约3万名讲员，参加了这项全世界上规模最庞大的演讲比赛。

此时此刻，我要衷心地感谢所有的会员、分会执委、分区总监、区际总监和区域高层负责人对分会、分区、区际和区域，付出宝贵的时间和精力。我坚信，只要大家同心协力，我们必定能打破更多记录，并在2016年5月31日，本届任满之前，取得前所未有的佳绩。

正当我们步入第五个月，大家不妨扪心自问这个最重要的问题：“身为会员，我是不是正在享受学习演讲的过程？”目前，正是大家进行反思和小总结的时刻，回想一下我们是否学以致用，通过学习演讲使自己迈向成功，如果你身为分会领导人，是否已经把所学的一切，奉献给讲演会。接下来，我们必须马上有所行动，改进做得不够好的地方，还没有做的事赶快去做，并且继续不断监控学习进度。本人坚信，我们肯定会在本届任期届满之际，达到成功的目标。

斯梅德利博士说：“目标定好、路线画好，还必须再给予动力 ”。
 

区域的高层负责人连同全体会员们，都有着共同的愿景和目标，讲演会要成功达标，有赖于会友们无私的贡献与奉献！
 

区域获得成功的关键因素：

我们的目标是在2016年5月31日之前，达到会长级卓越区域的目标：

第一个目标: 缴会费人数的净增长率达10%（从11,359增加到12,495）
请准时缴交会费，通过分享正面的学习体验，协助贵会留住会员；以及每次出席例会时记得带来宾，帮助贵会招收更多新会员。
回想一下参加讲演会，给自己带来哪些好处，如果你邀请其他人士参加，他们也将获益匪浅。

请阅读这篇文章：From Prospect to Guest to Members 《从非会员到成为来宾到成为会员》

第二个目标: 分会的净增长率达到10%（从208个分会增加到229个分会，净增长21个新会，同时没有丧失任何分会）

我们的目标是每个区际净增加2个新的分会，本区域总共有11个区际。

身为会员，您可以通过成立更多新会的方式，跟您所属机构和民众俱乐部成员，更广泛地分享讲演会的益处。            

请阅读这篇文章How to Build a Toastmasters Club《如何成立讲演会》，并联系分区总监向他寻求帮助。 

第三个目标: 使75%的分会成为卓越分会（71%至75%）

勤做作业、担任职务、完成教育体系的规定，并协助贵会达到更多项目标，成为卓越分会，大家要不辞劳苦地把这些任务做得最好！积极为贵会争取“迈步向前”（one-step-up）双重奖励，此奖将颁发给上一届无法得到“卓越分会奖”然而却积极向上的获得卓越分会奖的分会。

请阅读这篇文章: How to be Distinguished Club《如何成为卓越分会》。

我们会把本区域在争取成为“卓越区域”的过程中，所取得的最新进展，包括未来的趋势和所将碰到的问题，一一告诉会员们，这是一件重要的事。我们也已经把第二次区域执委会和第一次区域理事会报告，上载到 http://www.district80.org/resources.htm 网站。

会议报告一旦写好，我们会尽快上载。本区域的会务仍在开展之中，在2016年5月20日举行的第三次区域执委会会议和第二次区域理事会会议，我们庆祝取得更多成就。

只要大家同心协力、团结一致，本届讲演会学习之旅，必定最为难忘！

专心致志！有志者事竟成！

顺祝安康！

2015-2016年度区域总监

郑映屏（卓越讲员）鞠躬
手机号：96221803

2nd DLT Opening Address - 这是我在 21/11/2015区域领袖培训讲座的PPT

District Mission

We build new clubs and support all clubs in achieving excellence.

January 2016