The Knights of Division K

1. The Knights of Division K Division Mission and Purpose… In a broad sense our mission and purpose is to help our clubs and members to succeed as clubs and personally with respect to their Toastmasters ambitions. More specifically, all of the Area Governors have identified 3 specific areas of need… building membership, member retention and training. As a Division we will seek to address these particular areas by way of the following… Strategy… Area Visits… emphasizing The Club Success plan and active participation in achieving personal growth objectives. Moments Of Truth will also be used to assess quality of meetings and develop plans for improvement. Speech Contests… To ensure that Club, Area and Division Speech contests are conducted in the fall and the spring and to encourage participation not only as contestants but as planners / coordinators and attendees. These events allow people to meet others they would not normally meet within the confines of their own clubs and have a tendency to broaden one's perspective… creating inertia as discussed previously. Cont

2. Boot Camp… We intend to conduct a Boot Camp later in the calendar year for the purpose of training and creating inertia, possibly in collaboration with Division C. TLI / COT… We intend to conduct a TLI, also possibly in collaboration with Division C in January of 2015. The purposes are Club Officer Training as well as general training for regular members and creating inertia. We will also undertake to initiate / assist with COT for the incoming 2015/2016 Club Executive, in June 2015. PR… We will work with the District PR O on initiatives to promote Toastmasters with a view to increasing membership and starting new clubs. We will use the pop up banner in situations to aid in these promotions. Resources… We will make use of the $1500 Division budget in order to facilitate these events and initiatives. We will also seek and make use of donated resources to offset expenses. An example of the donated resources is, but is not limited to, the generous offers of meeting space at no charge by the ATB campus in northeast Calgary and by Cosmos in Red Deer. DCP… From a DCP perspective, with our base of 27 clubs, in order to achieve Distinguished Division status we will need to see; 11 Distinguished clubs for Distinguished Division 12 Distinguished clubs for Select Distinguished Division 14 Distinguished clubs for Presidents Distinguished Division