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Rio Copa on TV! PDF Print E-mail

 

Last month we were visited by Maricopa College's Kim Goetz from Maricopa Now which airs on MCTV on Cox cable channel 115.  If the player doesn't work below click here.  Our story is the first one!

 
Mike Trier wins at R4 Area Speech Contest! PDF Print E-mail

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Mike Trier competed in the R4 Area Speech Contest on 9/11/2010 with his speech titled "Crap I Say To My Kids" and took 1st place!  Mike will represent the R4 Area at the Rio Division Speech Contest on 10/23/2010. 

Mike Trier shown center between Andrea Castenada (R4 Area Governor) and Rick Wattier (Rio Division Governor)  

Great Job Mike! 

 

 

 

 
Humorous Contest Results! PDF Print E-mail

Humorous Contest on 9/13/10:

 

 9/13/10 Rio Copa's Humorous Contest 
 

 

9/13/10
Humorous Contest
1st Place went to Mike Trier with his speech titled 
"Crap I Say To My Kids".
 
The picture shown right is from the R4 Area Contest where Mike took 1st place with this speech. 
Mike was the founding President of Rio Copa Toastmasters in 2003. 

 

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 2nd Place went to JD Austin with his speech titled
"Despicable" 

The picture shown right is from 2007 when JD received his first Distinguished Toastmaster Award at the District 3 Conference; he was Rio Division Governor at the time. 

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Evaluation Contest Results PDF Print E-mail
 Evaluation Contest 8/25/2010
 1st Place went to JD Austin (shown right) and presented by Patrick Fitzgerald (shown left). jdevalcontest1.jpg
 
 2nd Place went to Tim Farley timfarleyevalcontest1.jpg
 3rd Place went to Mike Meyer mikemeyerevalcontest1.jpg
 

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Jason Hibbard was our model speaker for the contest.  Jason is shown far right next to our club current club President Patrick Fitzgerald when Jason won our club International Contest last year. 

 
Second DTM award puts JD Austin in elite group PDF Print E-mail
A self-described “geek” and introvert, JD Austin also considers himself a poster child for Toastmasters.

 “I’m a different person than I was six years ago,” says Austin. “When I first joined Toastmasters in 2004, it was because of a disastrous client meeting for my new company. That meeting was a train wreck, but it was the catalyst I needed to start building my communication skills. I saw Toastmasters as the solution to my problems–and it was!”
 

Now, just six years later, Austin has earned his second Distinguished Toastmasters award, the highest award bestowed by Toastmasters International. The DTM award recognizes both communication and leadership skills and requires dozens of speeches and many hours of service in club and district leadership positions, among other achievements.

It has been estimated that fewer than 12,000 of the 4 million past and present Toastmasters have achieved the elite DTM status. Now, Austin has done it twice! Along the way, he picked up numerous other awards, including Accomplished Area Governor, Accomplished Division Governor and Outstanding Area R4 Toastmaster.

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Rio Copa President's Distinguished 6 of 7 years PDF Print E-mail

presidentsdistinguished.gifIt is not yet 'Official' but we've just renewed with 21 members so it's official enough..

We're President's Distinguished for the 6th year in a row!
Currently we have 9 of the 10 Distinguished club points but will surely have two more people achieve their Competent Communicator awards by June 30th.

 

Clubs with at least 20 members OR with net growth of at least five new members at June 30
which also do the following are eligible for TI recognition at year end.
GOAL                RECOGNITION
Achieve any five of 10 goals
Achieve any seven of 10 goals
Achieve any nine of 10 goals
  Distinguished Club
Select Distinguished Club
President's Distinguished Club

Club 9120 - "Rio Copa Club"
District: 3 Division: R Area: 4
Membership Base: 21
Membership to Date: 21
    GOAL ACTUAL ACHIEVED
[1] CCs 2 2 *
[2] Additional CCs 2 0  
[3] ACs 1 1 *
[4] Additional ACs 1 1 *
[5] CL, AL, or DTM 1 1 *
[6] Additional CLs, ALs, or DTMs 1 2 *
[7] New Members 4 4 *
[8] Additional New Members 4 6 *
[9] Officers Trained (both required)
     
       June-August 4 6 *
       and December-February 4 7 *
[10] Submitted on time (both required)
     
       October or April Renewal 1 1  
       and Officer List 1 2 *
   
  Total Goals Achieved To-Date: 9

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Success Leadership HPL Project draws to a close PDF Print E-mail

toastmasterlogo.gifMembers of Rio Copa Toastmasters with the assistance from other Toastmasters in District 3 have just completed our Success Leadership High Performance Leadership Project!  

In this project we planned, promoted, and hosted four seperate events to present the four Success Leadership Modules from Toastmasters International:

02/19/10: Leadership, Part I: Characteristics of Effective Leaders:

In this presentation we talked about the various leadership styles and how the leader can and must adapt their leadship style to meet the needs of their team.  Participants first graphed their leaderhsip style and then the needs of their team to determing their leadership match and leaderhip gaps.
The coordinators where Sally Goodwin, JD Austin, and Michael Mur.

02/26/10: Leadership, Part II: Developing Your Leadership Skills:

This presentation covered skills and techniques needed to be an effective leader, such as contracting for excellence, team-building, motivation and coaching. The coordinators were Patrick Fitzgerald and Yolanda Stokes

03/12/10: Leadership, Part III: Working in the Team Environment:

In this presentation participants discovered the qualities of effective teams and how to build a team. Topics covered include developing team relations, encouraging commitment, fostering collaboration, building trust and resolving conflict.  The coordinators were Evelyn Adams, Susan Damron, and  Michael Trier.

03/26/10: Parliamentary Procedure in Action:
The ability to understand and apply parliamentary skills is a much sought-after quality among managers and leaders. This presentation covered how to effectively lead and participate in parliamentary-style discussions.  The coordinators were Janet Nash, Steven Martindale, and Dave Endres.

Special thanks go people that participated in more than their own event:
Mike Trier, Susan Damron, Mike Mur and especially Patrick Fitzgerald that participated in all of the events as did the project leader JD Austin.

JD Austin's Team of Advisors were Steve Broe (Thank you Steve for attending practice runs and providing valuable feedback!), Emi Bauer, and Patrick Fitzgerald.

Patrick Fitsgerald  attended all of the practice runs and other meetings except for one, all of the events, and all of the advisor meetings THANK YOU PATRICK!

Thank you Rio Salado College for providing a room to hold the events and not bumping us once we'd began promoting the events.   

This project helped coordinators and planners achieve Toastmasters educational goals:

  • 11 coordinators to complete a difficult requirement for their Advanced Communicator Gold projects
  • 16 to complete project #6 'Help organize club special event' project in their Competent Leadership manual
  • 4 to complete 'Chair club special event' for the team building project #10 in the Competent Leadership manual.
  • 2 to complete High Performance Leadership projects
   

More about the High Performance Leadership Project below.

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