The Importance of having a Theme at your meetings!

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TROPICAL January!

This past Thursday in our ENCORE Advanced Toastmasters Club our Toastmaster picked a theme of Tropical January. He didn’t just pick the theme and give random thoughts about how it would be nice to be in the tropics in January. He went way out and decorated the room in the tropics, he dressed in tropical clothing and he even got other members involved by bringing in items that they could wear as well.

A themed meeting makes the meeting fun and it allows other roles to get involved as well the timer, grammarian, topicsmaster can all fashion their content based on the theme. In some instances even the speakers can use the theme for their projects. When the entire meeting is centered around a common message it makes the meeting FUN for all involved.

If you find that your meetings are becoming a little stale consider having a themed meeting but not just in word really go all out with the theme because as our Toastmaster founder Ralph Smedley said “We learn best in moments of enjoyment”

Does your club use themes?

2 thoughts on “The Importance of having a Theme at your meetings!”

  1. This is an interesting piece. Our club does use themes and they really do make the meetings more fun. Thanks for writing this and I look forward to other writings.

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