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Friday, April 18

Gary Mull, DTM - 20:00 - 20:45

Drive to Success! Practical Strategies to get your vehicle (your Club) into shape
Join International Director Gary Mull In this highly motivational and inspirational workshop, which explores the metaphor of driving to focus on key elements of leadership success in your Toastmasters Club. Attendees will leave this session with proven, practical strategies for Club success that will help you turn obstacles into opportunities.
Whether your road is smooth or bumpy, your drive can still be successful! The Club's performance has less to do with the economy and other external factors, and more to do with the philosophies and practices of its leadership team. You can have an active, fun, motivated, high-membership Club – even in what others may consider “tough times”.

Saturday, April 19

Kristal Di Carlo, DTM, PHR, CCP - 16:00 - 16:45

Winding Your Way Through Webcasts
Webcasts and conference calls are the communication methods of the future. Companies are finding alternatives for training and communication with their employees versus spending money to travel for face-to-face meetings and seminars. The participants will learn how to prepare, conduct and follow up after a Webcast. The techniques are similar to public speaking but need to be modified with more focus on voice and interactive presentations to keep the audience's attention.

Christine Levesque, DTM - 16:00 - 16:45

The SECRET of effective evaluations:
it’s easier than you think!
Review the basics of what is a Toastmaster’s evaluation with tips and tricks on :
- What is an effective evaluation
- How to prepare an evaluation (before/during/ after)
- The best delivery for the best impact on the speaker and the audience
Test what you have learned (hear a test speech / prepare an evaluation / get a chance to deliver your evaluation and get feedback from your peers).
Share your experiences.

Eric Dormer, ATMS CL and
Todd Collins, ACG, ALB - 16:00 - 16:45

Improve your speech by “Dissecting Dr. Dad and Nuking Mr. Hyde” with Humour

Todd and Eric will show you how they worked on Dr. Dad’s humorous speech which did not win at the club level (you’ll hear and see why - ouch!) and turned it into a Divisional winning speech, in spite of Mr. Hyde’s antics! A silk purse out of a Sow’s Ear?
Come and find out, and take home the lessons!

Dr. Joe Schwarcz, Director, McGill Office for Science and Society - 8:00 to 8:45

The Use of "Entertainment" in Scientific Presentations for the Public

Just as sugar makes the medicine go down more easily, a smattering of humor...and magic... can make scientific information easier to swallow. This presentation will focus on the use of both visual and verbal means of spicing up scientific presentations without sacrificing content.

France Vezina, DTM - 9:15 to 10:00

The Magic POP

This workshop will speak to everyone and will cover leadership principles that can be applied in our Toastmasters environment, at work, at home and in our community.
The workshop will talk about the magic power of possibilities.

Anna Van Adrichem-Rochon, ATMB - 9:15 to 10:00

Attitude is Everything!

Have you ever wondered why some people have all the luck? They go on holidays and the sun shines, they are successful in their jobs, they have all the fun, they get all the breaks. You can be one of the lucky ones. See the positive in every challenge and situation………..attitude is everything!

The goal of this workshop is to build awareness that everything is not perfect in other people's lives but they have a positive attitude and you can have it too. Good luck is a lot of hard work !

Jennifer Dobson, CTM, CL and
Greg Idasz, CTM - 9:15 to 10:00

The View from Cyberspace - Outside Looking In
To enable attendees to use their club website as a more effective marketing tool for their club.

The seminar will cover the 3 stages of a web marketing program:
1) Focus on who is looking and what are they looking for
2) Find your site - technical tags you need to be aware of
3) Convert the people browsing your site into club visitors