Dear Fellow Toastmaster,

Special thanks go to Balázs Gergely, our Vice-President of Membership, for giving a professional and motivating goal-setting workshop on Monday.

Have you ever thought that Toastmasters has very much in common with marathon running? If you think about it, you realize that it is exactly true, as the most essential thing to complete both of them is to set your goals and then to be persistent. Week by week, month by month… and time will bring the award you aimed.
What a successful leader does is the combination of goal setting and planning. Based on the definitions; A goal is a specific objective you and your team must achieve. A plan is the blueprint for achieving these goals.
Be SMART when you are about to set up your goals and deal with Specific – Measurable – Action-oriented – Realistic – Time-bounded goals ahead of you.
Within the groves of Toastmasters, you always have to be aware of what your next goal is, what you want to achieve in the next semester. However, it is never easy to harmonize your busy life with the club. The five sequential steps of planning can support you to get over the hindering factors and complete your goals. Steps to be followed:

1. Establish strategies.
2. Set a time table.
3. Assign responsibilities.
4. Anticipate obstacles.
5. Modify the plan as necessary.

Never forget, if goals are not written, they are just dreams. As they become written, goals are dreams with deadlines! Easyspeak helps you to overcome this issue, because your Toastmaster related goals can be set up and tracked easily via it.
Last but not least, take a look at the levels, what your next step can be regarding your Toastmaster development:

	Communication	Leadership
	Distinguished Toastmaster
Gold	ACG	–
Silver	ACS	ALS
Bronze	ACB	ALB
Competent	CC	CL

It is the link of the Leadership Excellence series Balázs was referring to during the workshop. It is part of ALB and I encourage everyone who would like to give a workshop to pick one of the projects.

Have you already heard about the Game of VPs?

This is a special and unique edition of Budapest Toastmasters’ Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 12th May in Veranda Restaurant. This event is for the Club elections so it is time to nominate or get nominated for club officer roles. Please submit your nominations to Atis Szabó, CC, Elections Chair via email at szabo.attila@kephang.hu till 5th May.

Budapest Toastmasters Executive Committee (ExCo) consists of the following officer roles:

– President

(- Immediate Past President: no nominations can be made)

– Vice President Education

– Vice President Leadership

– Vice President Membership

– Vice President Public Relations

– Secretary

– Treasurer

– Sergeant at arms

– VP Mentoring

– VP Information Technology

Further information about the roles and the current officers can be found on the website.

Also, if you have any proposals regarding any change in the club regulations, please send them to Atis as well.

What you can expect from this evening is a totally new experience of an AGM; Socializing, quiz, speed activity, superb cuisine, and table topics belong to the program as well as the election of club officers and the discussion of club changing proposals. For further information follow us via Facebook!

Please note that next Toastmasters meeting will be the Skylark meeting on 22th April, as the Monday session is closed this week because of the Eastern holiday.

We wish you happy Eastern!

Judit & Your Budapest Toastmasters ExCo Team