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The Informer and Art of Humour ISBN 978 1 84963 222 5 Issue Deadline October 19 September ROSTRUM INFORMER _________________________________________________________________________________________________ August 2014 Newsletter of Rostrum Western Australia www.rostrum.com.au/wa A Fly on the Wall Conversation overheard at a recent Rostrum Club meeting, between Wanda and Wally (not their real names): Don’t be a Wally. Get together with others in your Club and fast-track your development by stepping up to a higher platform of experience where you will use ALL your communication and presentation skills. The AGSOY entry form is on the back page. Just do it. Freeman Karen Reid, Coordinator AGSOY written up in Juliet’s report. I just want to add that each year Rostrum Developments I am blown away by the standard of speaking that the contestants present, and this year was no exception. As I This time last weekend (as I write listened, particularly to the Seniors, I kept thinking “that was this, not as you read it), the music a winner”, only to have the next speaker surpass them. A from Les Miserables was still real challenge for the adjudicators! playing through my head. “What’s that got to do with Now back to WA. At the end of the month we held our Rostrum?” I hear you say. The second club based Dais meeting with an excellent turnout of answer: - If there hadn’t been an around 30 people. Club 50 did us proud with hot finger Australian Rostrum Council food and yummy sweets, as well as wine and soft drinks. meeting in Adelaide, I wouldn’t The actual meeting, which was short and sharp, was followed have gone to the show. As it was by discussion on meeting format and program content. a low airfare and a low cost hotel, Karen Reid and Susan L’Herpiniere then provided lots of I was hooked. Of course, soon advice on how to approach the Speaker of the Year, with after I booked they announced that it would be coming to Susan delivering a speech and then dissecting it and Perth in January next year. Oh well, I’ll just have to go and explaining how she’d put it together. Valuable material and see it again! with eager listeners, I’m sure we’ll have a great competition this year. Back to Rostrum – and plenty of good news on the home front. First, we have a new Director of Marketing in Denise By the time you read this, I’ll be over the hills and far away. Bradley from Club 42. Denise is a past member of Rostrum, Well actually, over the seas and far away. Luke will be who has just re-joined. She has background in marketing and leading in my place, ably supported by the rest of the Dais has already come up with some great ideas, so watch this Board. Thankfully, we have people who help run Rostrum space! for all of us. Luke’s invitation and challenge to all of you to step up and give back to Rostrum appears below. Both you Second, we have decided to move back to our own website. personally and Rostrum will benefit if you take it up. The national web site is still having problems and also won’t link to our intended new marketing format as shown at the Freeman Tony Lightman, President, Rostrum WA April Dais meeting. We are just finalising the brief and plan for the web site to be up and working by September. This is to link with a proposed marketing campaign, which we plan New Opportunities – to launch as soon as the web site is in place and it will run through to early December. An Invitation from Now the news from the ARC meeting. The good news is the Vice President that we will soon have a new national constitution. As you’ll An outstanding opportunity is waiting through a door to remember, this was started last year but zones didn’t agree your left, slightly ajar, where you can hear voices bantering with the proposed approach, so it had to be started again. back and forth, as chortles and laughter muffle the words. The proposed constitution reflects the way we actually run Do you walk on by leaving the door alone and one day ask with the zones being members and nominating a Director yourself what all that fun was about? Or do you pluck up from within the zone. Interestingly this no longer has to be your courage and take the handle in hand? the President, so we can get some continuity in place. If Grasping the door handle you take the plunge and are you’re wondering why this is happening, when it doesn’t surprised at the chorus of ‘welcomes’ that greets you. seem as though anything is changing, it’s because when the ‘Please, come in and join us and we hope you enjoy your ARC was established there was no facility to establish a truly time with us.’ national body and the current constitution is registered in South Australia. With the new constitution Rostrum will be You my friend have just opened the door of opportunity that registered as a National body. is Rostrum WA. The other news is that Tasmanian Rostrum is developing As you look around the room, greeting everyone, you realise what they have called an Accelerated Development Program, this is not like any other Board, this is not a Board of stiffs, based on exercises from the current PDP and IDP programs. this is a Board of warm smiles and interesting characters. The intention is that this will be offered to businesses to fast One you think might just be right for you. track people through the program more quickly. Fine detail is still being worked out. I’ve asked them to include us in the “Opportunity knocks once and then moves on”. Are you loop, as we have been thinking along similar lines to grasping your opportunities? Rostrum has an outstanding encourage younger people to take up the challenge. If opportunity for you to develop and grow more skills. anyone is interested in participating in this approach, please give me or Luke a call. I have an outstanding opportunity for you: an opportunity for you to grow, personally and professionally, like never The ARC weekend also included the national final of the before. An opportunity for your CV to be better than ever Rostrum Voice of Youth competition and this will be fully before and land at the top of the recruiters’ piles every time. 2 | P a g e Like everything that has great returns, it will require determination, inspiration and motivation to succeed. Speakers impress at Nothing looks better on a CV than experience. Trust me, I Rostrum Voice of Youth Final have been a recruiter and nothing is more impressive than extracurricular activities that show professional development and outstanding commitment to personal growth. So why not volunteer, step up and help out in your club committee or, better still, on the State Board? Taking on these roles will help you grow like never before. Do you want to organise events or manage projects? Do you want to take leadership roles at work? Do you want to be more valuable in your organisation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will benefit from volunteering for a committee role in your club or on the Board. What roles are available and what do they entail? These positions are available now or will soon become vacant: 1. Dais Secretary. This is my current role. Taking on this challenge has shown me how to record meeting minutes Senior winner Joshua Dunne and Junior winner Max Richardson accurately, succinctly and with clear actions to be taken; by whom and when. You will learn in a supportive Ten finalists from city and country secondary schools put environment the skills to become brilliant at preparing their public speaking skills to the test in front of family and for meetings, recording important discussion points and friends (and adjudicators) in the State Final of the Rostrum how to better communicate actions to attendees after Voice of Youth on Saturday 28 June at the Boulevard Centre meetings. For more details please contact me at in Floreat. [email protected]. Months of preparation, and perseverance through heats and 2. Coordinator of the Arthur Garvey Speaker of the semis, culminated in an afternoon of well-researched and Year and Annual Dinner, Rostrum WA’s prestigious confidently delivered speeches which entertained, informed speaking event. This will develop your marketing, and impressed audience and adjudicators alike. All the organisational and project management skills. If you speakers demonstrated insight and maturity of thought in nominate soon, you can understudy Karen Reid for the their speeches; to quote Chairman of Adjudicators, Freeman Ruurd Speelman, ‘the best yet’. rest of the year, rather than taking it on blind. This role involves promoting the event, coordinating registrations, Joshua Dunne and Max Richardson, both from Hale School, organising venues and scheduling heats. For more won the Senior and Junior sections respectively. Rebekah details contact Karen at [email protected]. Craggs (Corpus Christi College) was the Senior runner-up and Louise Miolin (Kearnan College) the Junior runner-up. 3. Training Executive. Wayne Passmore is stepping down as Director of Training but fortunately Ruurd Congratulations to Joshua and Max on winning the Speelman is taking over. However, Ruurd needs support opportunity to represent WA in the National Final in and this is an excellent opportunity to learn from a Adelaide in July (see below) and to all the speakers on their master.
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