Overview

Each fall and spring District 10 hosts a conference in the Northeastern Ohio area. These conferences are filled with speech contests, educational sessions, guest speakers, and lots of fun. Each conference offers a great opportunity to learn more about effective oral communication skills, network with fellow Toastmasters, and to meet new friends.

Spring 2012 Conference

The Spring Conference is scheduled for April 27th and 28th. Northern Division is the host! Check back often for the latest details and information.

We will be having a special, distinguished guest for the spring conference! Michael Notaro, DTM - Toastmasters International President. More information on Michael including his biography can be found here.

Flyer for Spring 2012 Conference

The flyer for the spring conference is available in PDF format for viewing and printing. Click here for the flyer.

Register for Spring 2012 Conference via Constant Contact

To start the registration process for the spring conference click here.

Educational Sessions for Spring Conference

Session 1 (9:30am to 10:25am)

1st Round	Communication	Communication	Club Building	New Member / Rookies
Presenter	Dan Toussant, ACB, CL	Rose Sloat, DTM & Darryl Doane	Merri Macartney, DTM, IPDG	Marilyn Harman, ACS, ALB
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Title	What's Your Story?	Stories They Will Remember - Connecting With Others Through Storytelling	"Your Club: Your Team"	Overview of Competent Communicator
Description	When the Department of Labor conducted a 30-year study of workers in America they discovered that the average person will hold between 10 and 12 jobs in their career, depending on education and gender. Today it is far more frequent for someone to change jobs every few years than to stay with one employer for 20 plus years. How do you prepare yourself for a job transition now? Prepare for the next step of your career by developing job transition skills now. Listen to someone who has successfully transitioned through a number of professional positions. The interviewing skills, knowing what questions you will most likely hear, knowing what questions to ask, plus the personal storytelling techniques that Dan Toussant has cultivated, will be useful to nearly every professional person planning their career, whether someone wants to change jobs right now, or would wisely prepare for that future situation right now.	This program will support the communication track by giving participants the necessary tools for development of meaningful stories. The program focuses on the realization that storytelling has been used as a powerful learning tool for centuries. Everyone has a meaningful story within them and this program will assist the participants in their ability to utilize their own stories to complement and support their speeches, presentations, training sessions, and meetings by causing the audience to become entrenched in the content of the presentation and relating to the meaningul insights for which the story was told.	The concern about attendance and membership is a universal concern. No matter the club or district, we all want to have more committed members. Let's take a look at how a sports team accomplishes this and let's copy their model. Let's make everyone a member of our team.	Do you feel as if you're the only one freaking out as you proceed through the Competent Communication manual? Would an overview of the ten speeches help you overcome your fear? Will I really feel tompetent? It is manageable when someone explains the purpose of each speech and how skills build off one another. Attent this workshop and hear all about it. Maybe even come away with some ideas for each of the upcoming speeches in the CC manual. An overview will help you chart your course with advanced manuals and the fun really begins.

Session 2 (10:30am to 11:25am)

2nd Round	Communication	Leadership	Club Building	New Member / Rookies
Presenter	Mark Kwasny, CC	Lori Lococo, DTM, PDG	Liz Hersh	Rick Winrod, ACS, ALS
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Title	Give Your Audience Something To Smith About: Creating a Lasting Impression With Humor	Coach’s Corner - The Ultimate Toastmaster Tool	Using Social Media To Build Your Club	"Competent Leadership Manual, The Answer To All Your Problems"
Description	Every speech, no matter how technical or formal, can benefit from the use of humor. Humor eases tension in an audience and makes it more receptive to your message. Toastmasters will benefit from this presentation by learning how to tap into their own senses of humor to reach their audience and make their speeches more memorable and effective. Toastmasters will come away from this presentation with a better understanding of their own particular brand of humor and how to translate that into creating winning speeches.	Coach's Corner is a brainstorming tool that brings a member's speech ideas to a group setting. The member benefits through the teamwork experience by getting many fresh perspectives on a particular speech project which they have the opportunity to present at the club's next meeting. The coaching group benefits through the teamwork experience by hearing about innovative ways to tackle their own speech projects and the opportunity to practice listening, evaluation and feedback skills. We will discuss the elements of a successful Coach's Corner and how it benefits each member, the coaching group and the club as a whole. We will investigate how Coach's Corner can be a magic bullet for a struggling club or a struggling meeting.	Building membership in your Toastmasters club is essential to its overall health. Attracting new members is necessary to ensure better club programs, depth of leadership and overall enthusiasm at meetings. Membership will always vary, but it's important to keep a steady flow of perspective members visiting your club. In the tech-savvy world that we currently live in, how can your Toastmasters club utilize the opportunities presented by social media? I will discuss the best social media options available and some of the ways your club can effectively communicate the message of Toastmasters to help ensure the health of your club.