{"id":929,"date":"2013-09-04T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:26:37","slug":"2013-toastmasters-annual-business-meeting-proxy-returns-by-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/2013-toastmasters-annual-business-meeting-proxy-returns-by-district\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Toastmasters annual business meeting proxy returns by district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/CheckMark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-558\" alt=\"CheckMark\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/CheckMark-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Annual business meeting proxies are how we do business.\u00a0 This year, Proposal A was on the table to amend the Toastmasters club constitution, but only 74% of clubs were represented.\u00a0 One district appears to have gotten every single proxy collected, D70 (southeastern Australia), 100%, even a new club that chartered Aug. 14 (Griffith Toastmasters), very impressive!<\/p>\n<p>This was closely followed by another Australian district, D69 (eastern Australia), at 97% (missed 5 clubs) and my home district, D30 (Chicagoland), at 96% (missed 9 clubs).<\/p>\n<p>Districts with (lots of) room to improve include D34 (Mexico) with just 37% of clubs represented, D52 (southern California) at 39%, and D82 (Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka in India) at 49%.<\/p>\n<p>The top quarter of districts beat 86% representation, the top half beat 75%, and the top 3\/4 beat 66%.<\/p>\n<p>While there are many things more important for Toastmasters districts to devote scarce resources to (no, not speech contests, I mean helping struggling clubs and building new clubs), this is the sort of thing that shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to do.\u00a0 A district proxy chair with a committee to call clubs and round up proxies makes an excellent High Performance Leadership (HPL) project!<\/p>\n<p>Full details in the Excel spreadsheet here: <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Proxies2013.xlsx\">Proxies2013<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual business meeting proxies are how we do business.\u00a0 This year, Proposal A was on the table to amend the Toastmasters club constitution, but only 74% of clubs were represented.\u00a0 One district appears to have gotten every single proxy collected, D70 (southeastern Australia), 100%, even a new club that chartered Aug. 14 (Griffith Toastmasters), very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}