Club Officer Training Winter Session

Club Officer Training Schedule for 2023-2024 Second Round (Winter)

One of the ways that District 31 works to achieve its mission to “…help all clubs achieve excellence” is by providing Club Officer Training (COT)

All COT sessions are open to any Toastmasters member and cover a wide variety of topics to help clubs to improve in order to better serve their members.

Based on feedback received from surveys of club officers, training will once again will be conducted in shorter sessions between 60 and 120 minutes long with offerings not only on weekday evenings and weekend mornings, but also at noon during the workday to accommodate a larger number of people’s availability.

Most sessions will be virtual, but there was a single in-person session in January for those who were interested in the networking benefits of meeting people in person (pre-registration is required). See below at the bottom of the page for more details.

Club officers who attend at least 2 hours of training including at least one club officer peer session will earn credit in the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) for their attendance.

Don’t stop at 2 hours, though, as the more training you attend, the more you will learn and grow and be able to help your club. And if that wasn’t incentive enough, clubs with an average total training time per club officer of at least 3 hours who get credit for at least 4 officer roles in the DCP goals will receive reimbursement for 6-months of Zoom access (or an equivalent prize).

Who will be the most trained club officer team in District 31? Please email COT@district31.org with any questions, suggestions, or offers to help. Session dates and registration links are being added as they are finalized.

Virtual Training Topics

To allow for maximum flexibility, District 31 is offering a wide variety of training topics from which you can choose.

Per Toastmasters policy, each club officer must attend training that is specific to their club officer roles, which means that attending one of the many offerings of the Club Officer Peer Sessions is required.

In addition to this mandatory session, club officers must choose at least one other training session to attend from the choices listed below, this must be an elective as your second training session.

Having a hard time choosing which topic to attend? Why not attend all of the topics that are of interest to you? Not only will you learn more by attending more sessions, but you will also help your club towards earning the training incentive.

Please note all of our Peer Sessions for the winter have been posted. What you see is what you have available so please plan accordingly.

Elective Training Topics

The following are the elective topics we have so far. Please come back for more offerings.

Contest Basics – Learn the basics of running a club contest.

Navigating Pathways – Learn about navigating your way through Pathways.

DTM Projects – Need ideas for your DTM project? Come join this session and get some ideas.

DTM Lessons Learned – Come find out about the lessons learned from a DTM project.

Pathways Progress Reporting – Need help keeping track of the Pathways progress of your members. Come to this session to learn about a premade tool that can help you out.

Pathways Project Ideas – Want more ideas for your Pathways projects and speeches? This session is for you if you need some suggestions and ideas.

DEI – Want to know more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in general within Toastmasters and beyond come join us to find out more.

Club Officer Peer Sessions (required)

Are you struggling with your officer role and looking for guidance? Or have you found a great way to execute your role and want to share it with others? Come to a club officer peer session to learn about how to execute your responsibilities of your role and share challenges and successes with others in the same role.

There will be breakout sessions for each officer role. It is required to attend at least one of these sessions for club credit in the DCP program (along with another hour or more of the topic of your choice).

The offerings in the winter months encourage participants to ask questions and share advice with each other. It is expected that you have read through the requirements of your role in the Club Leadership Handbook PRIOR to attending this session.

Peer Sessions:

NOTE: Please note for most of our Peer Sessions we have at least one Elective following. If this is the case both sessions are using the same link and will show up as a 2 hour block regardless of whether you choose to attend both sessions or just one.

Elective Sessions:

Here are our current elective session offerings. Please check back periodically for more sessions. You must attend at least one session in addition to your peer session for credit.

NOTE: Please note for most of our Peer Sessions we have at least one Elective following. If this is the case both sessions are using the same link and will show up as a 2 hour block regardless of whether you choose to attend both sessions or just one.

Club Officer Training Tracker:

Looking to see who in your club has received club officer training credit and who hasn’t. Look through the tracker below for your answer. “x’s” means the officer has attended that training. Please do allow up to a week for credit to show up as this needs to be manually updated and reviewed.

Note: There are over 100 clubs in District 31. To make it easier locating your club please enter your club name using the search function.