How we created and chartered a company hosted with open membership Toastmasters Club in 19 days with 38 members.

1. Dzung Vuong
ACS (Advanced Communication Silver)
ALB (Advanced Leadership Bronze)
Club Coach
Area Governor
November 2010

2. About
• How we chartered
Create WOW!
Toastmasters Club
in 3 weeks
The Story
• Except the author
& the Club, I
changed people
names
The
Characters

3. What is Toastmasters?
Non-profit volunteer
organization
Members learn and practice
communication and leadership
skills

4. Communication
Give prepared speech,
evaluation
and impromptu speaking

5. Leadership
At Club, Area, Division,
District
and International Levels

6. Our Story in one word:
PLEASE
Problem
Leverage
Enthusiasm
Actions
Sales
Endurance

7. Problem
Have you got a problem?
Do what you can where you are with what you've
got.
Theodore Roosevelt

8. At the year end performance review:
Victor’s manager asked him:
“Give your evaluation about me as a manager?”

9. Victor raised this in
our Services Excellence
Workshop where
over 30 people attended.

10. Victor’s problem:
He could not tell his manager: You suck!
He ended up saying nothing,
even he wanted to say something!

11. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts
than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller

12. I said: Toastmasters teach you how
to give constructive feedback
without hurting the other person.
Tom, our instructor: Why
don’t you form a
Toastmasters Club?
Me: I’ll arrange an
Information Session.

14. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusias
Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. March 4th, 2010:
I said we’ll have an Information Session
March 5th, 2010:
We had this session with District 2 Toastmast

17. The secret of getting things done is to act!
Benjamin David

18. To charter a
Toastmasters
Club, you
need 20
members
From March
5, I took an
action almost
daily
My Goal: to
have 20
members
signed up by
April 1st

19. When you try to sell an idea to someone,
there are 4 polite responses:
a)I don’t know
b)I might
c)I will
d)I do
Only people who say “I do” will write you a check
Dzung Vuong

20. There are about
100 people in the
office
Within 2 weeks,
one third of top
managers signed
up as members

21. I signed up for this Toastmasters Club, why
don’t you give it a try?
Or, Steve, do you know Tim (his manager) &
Ann (his peer) both signed up?
Or, did you know that both Pedro (2nd most
senior manager) and David (Top Manager)
both signed up?
Tactics

22. There is no sales tactic as powerful as
Personal Stories

23. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
William Clement Stone

27. Summary
(we did it in 19 days)
The ideas to
form
Toastmasters
Club was in
March 4th, 2010
The Club was
chartered on
March 23rd,
2010 with 38
members
(about 1/3 of
the people in
the office)
Almost half of
all senior
managers
signed up as
members

29. http://www.toastmasters.org/
http://d2tm.org/
http://wowtm.posterous.com/

30. http://twitter.com/dzungvuong
http://ideasimpact.com/