Nominations - Criteria and Nomination Forms

District Officer Nominations

District officer nominations

Communication & Leadership Award

Toastmaster of the Year Award

Division Governor of the Year Award

Area Governor of the Year Award

Golden Goose Award

Vice-President Public Relations of the Year Award

Public Relations Quality Award

Public Relations Event of the Year Award

Young Toastmaster of the Year Award

Leadership Opportunities 2007/2008

Toastmasters offers many leadership opportunities to its members to learn first hand what is required as a manager and as a leader especially servant leadership roles in working with volunteers without any real positional authority power.

It does so through its organisational structures at Club, District, Regional and International levels. Each year all positions in the movement become available for new incumbents to fill and so create opportunities for its members (based on prior experience and personal desire to improve) to put their names forward to be considered for such positions.

Club officer elections usually happen in or around April and May whilst Districts must have elected their officers by May Conference and the Annual General Meeting each year at which ALL Club Presidents and Vice Presidents Education meet to elect the leaders for the 2007/2008 Toastmasters year.

The structure in District 74 offers 44 opportunities for Leadership office. The following positions are available:

District Governor (1 position)
Lieutenant Governor Education & Training (1 position)
Lieutenant Governor Marketing (1 position)
District Public Relations Officer (1 position)
District Secretary (1 position)
District Treasurer (1 position)
Division Governors (7 positions)
Area Governors (31 positions)

What do the jobs entail and what do I learn?

D74 TLI (Toastmaster Leadership Institute) will be running a workshop on Saturday 10 February 2007 in ALL Divisions throughout the country. These will be titled “District and Club Leadership Opportunity Workshops” and details will be announced in On A Point shortly so that you can book your place and find out more about these great learning and personal development opportunities on offer.

Details of the different officer responsibilities and qualifications are listed below for ease of reference.

Call for Nominations

The Nominations Committee

In terms of the District constitution and bylaws, a Nominations Committee has been appointed and will be chaired by Past District Governor Adolph Kaestner DTM. The committee has equal representation from all 7 Divisions in District 74 and is balanced 50/50 male to female.

Details of the members and their contact details will be published on the District 74 web site shortly.

The Nominations Process

All registered Toastmasters in good standing – from a club in good standing – are entitled to nominate suitably qualified candidates (including themselves) for any of the positions mentioned above.

All nominations are to be on the official nominations forms that are available on the District 74 web site http://www.toastmasters74.org.

All nominations forms are to be accompanied by a signed an officer release form.

All nominations are to be sent to the Nominations Chairman: Adolph Kaestner – at the following addresses adolph@adolph.co.za or fax: 086-640-3575.

Deadline for nomination submissions: Friday, 30 March 2007.

Nomination Committee Functions

All nominees will be interviewed by the Nominations Committee to ensure that:

They qualify,
They understand what is required i.t.o Toastmasters servant leadership,
They understand the demands and needs of the District and the clubs and members,
They understand the commitments i.t.o. time, effort, and money to do the job,
They understand their obligations i.t.o. conferences, club and division visits, training etc.

The District Officer nominations form as well as the assessment forms will be available for viewing and downloading on the District 74 web site http://www.toastmasters74.org.

Once all nominees have been interviewed the Nominations Committee will meet and decide on the candidates (max. 2 per post) that they will officially nominate as the best suited candidates for the positions.

They will then forward this report to the District Governor and this will then be distributed to all District 74 Council members at least 2 weeks prior to the AGM in May 2007.