While you’re waiting for your New Member Packet to arrive, here are some things you can do to get started:
- Familiarize yourself with the various roles people are playing at the meetings. Start signing up for some basic roles (Timer, Vote Counter, etc).
- Download and read The Icebreaker (pdf, 145kb). This is the first chapter in the Competent Communicator manual. It will be your first prepared speech to the club.
- Read some back issues of the
- Toastmasters magazine.Download and read Your Speaking Voice (pdf, 2 megs), Gestures: Your Body Speaks (pdf, 1 meg), and Effective Evaluation (pdf, 632kb).
- If that’s still not enough for you, there’s more member info on the Toastmasters website.