SLIM Toastmaters wins Golden Gavel Award
SLIM Toastmasters Club bagged the prestigious Golden Gavel Award at the Ovation 2013-Annual Toastmaster Conference held in Chennai, India. This award is given in recognition of a club’s outstanding achievements obtained by fulfilling requirements stipulated by the public speaking world body - The Toastmasters International (TMI) incorporated in the USA.
The Golden Gavel Award comes to the SLIM Toastmasters Club, which is relatively a young club, for the first time in its history since it was chartered in year 2008. SLIM Toastmasters call Golden Gavel award a people’s award because this award represents the level of engagement the members had in various types of Toastmastering activities during the tenure.
To be awarded by the Golden Gavel, a club must essentially achieve the Distinguish Club President goals which include a ten point series of educational awards. Additionally, a club has to ensure that its officers are well trained by taking part in the officers’ training programmes organised by the division, a stable growth in the membership as well as a membership retention programme, a great level of administration, representations at the semiannual and annual conferences, adequate public relation activities through social media and websites and publication of professional newsletters at every quarter, etc.
The President of the Club Toastmaster Mihirinie Fonseka said, “I always ensured that the members were fully aware of our targets and that they were made accountable to achieve sub goals assigned to them. However, they were fully supported with the right direction and advice to be successful. My victory is my members’ success.”