Club Officer Resources
This page is in two sections – what Toastmasters believes officers need to know, and what District 112 believes each officer needs in addition, including training materials.

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Become familiar with Club Central
Your hub for conducting online business, including:
- New, dual, and reinstated membership application submissions
- Membership dues and fee payments
- Education award submissions
- Updates to club information (meeting location, time, email address)
- Club financial information from the last two years
- Administrative and historical club reports
Watch D112’s 10 minute summary of main points (highly recommended)
Get to know your Club Leadership Handbook
An easy-to-use guide with chapters detailing club governance, leadership roles, and more.
Distinguished Club Program and Club Success Plan
This manual explains the Distinguished Club Program, provides guidelines for club success and “how to” become a Distinguished Club.
Review the Club Success Plan (NOW MOVED TO CLUB CENTRAL)
Speech Contest Rulebook (also see "Contests" section)
Speech contest rules for the International, Evaluation, Humorous, Table Topics, Tall Tales, and Video Speech Contests.
Club Officer Tools Page
Additional tools and information to assist you in your role.
Policy Violations Quick Reference Guide
A reference guide to assist with handling potential policy violations discreetly and promptly. This guide covers the most common questions with regards to the club, District, and international levels.
Help during your year - the Leader Letter
Be on the lookout for the Leader Letter, our monthly newsletter with important information, including updated materials, deadlines, reminders, announcements, and more to help you in your new role. As a leader, you will get this information first, so make sure to pass it along to the rest of your club members! Each month’s edition will be emailed to you, and can be found on the Leader Letter webpage.
Advertising with Facebook
This is a step by step guide to creating effective Facebook advertising. You can find it in the TI Resource Library. The marketing team can also help with questions; their email is socialmedia@toastmasters.org.
Tip: Facebook has an excellent help section for getting started with advertising. If you get stuck please spend a little while there before contacting WHQ.
Recommendations From District 112
The following resources are currently available for Club Officers:
Register of Officers trained in Round 2, 2024-2025
Click here to see the officer roles recorded by District at WHQ as trained. It is your club’s responsibility to ensure this is correct. You will need to provide evidence of attendance to resolve any discrepancy.
Looking to run a "Hybrid" meeting?
Combining an in-person meeting with remote attendance is worthwhile. District Officers do it for contests, so you might take a look at our ZoomMaster’s “Using Zoom in online contests” guide on the District Documents page.
A few extra hints:
- Online attendance is for those who can’t be there in person; your objective should be that everyone feels part of the meeting
- A TV programme with a live audience is an example of a hybrid meeting. This uses a camera trained on the stage and another on the audience
- Work with what is available, only buy to fill gaps
- Consider boosting the sound from remote speakers; a small Bluetooth speaker is ideal
- The more your venue echoes, the closer (and more in front of) your camera and microphone need to be to the speaker
- You won’t get it right first time, but the process can get you a Level 4 or 5 Pathways project if you wish.
All officers - review our Club Central and Officer Roles video summaries
Watch D112’s 10 minute summary of main points (highly recommended)
Also this 14 minute summary of Officer Roles presented by Ben Ross (Division O Director, 2021-2022)
All officers - analysis of Toastmasters data in a not too scary way
Toastmasters provides a lot of information in the “Leadership Central” section under “District Performance Reports”. If you’re looking for an easy way of doing this, check out the “Tech for Toastmasters” YouTube channel, starting with this easy way of fetching the data.
If you want to look at the daily reports, such as who received what award in the current year, the method is similar. The query you need to use is
http://reports.toastmasters.org/reports/dprReports.cfm?r=3&d=112
(Daily report no. 3 for District 112).
Please note you need to select “Table 2” from the “Display Options” drop-down on the Navigator screen, then click on “Transform data” when that button displays.
President
- Promotional Funding for club | Facebook Boosting (This is a Word document and may not be editable in Firefox – if using that browser, please download the file first. Contact: marketing@d112tm.org.nz)
- Generic Script for a Club Annual Business Meeting (ABM) | PDF and Word (provided by Murray Coutts, DTM, PDDG, and reviewed by Chrissy Meyer, DTM, PDDG)
- ABM presentation given by Jehan Kateli (Area Director O3) and Barry Shaw (Division O Director) during Club Officer Training Round 2 2020-2021 (Original information provided by Murray Coutts, DTM, PDDG)
- Editable Template for Club Executive Meeting
- The Club Success Plan checklist (now moved to its own section in Club Central) is a useful start on the way to plan how your club can be Distinguished or better
- Club Success Plan Template
- Parliamentary Procedures for Business Meetings. D112 uses “Members Meetings” 3rd edition by Mark van Dadelzen. (ISBN/ISSN: 9781927149461) Published by Lexis Nexis. Discounted price at time of writing is $35.00.
- You hope you’ll never see conflict in your club – but if you do, this training aid will help you handle it
Vice President Education
- Member GOAL Sheet (provided by Wendy Wickliffe, DTM, Club Growth Director)
- Moments of Truth template
- Mentoring – PowerPoint slideshow (download)
- How to manage the club mentoring program
- Mentor interest survey
- Personal Plan for Success (provided by Glen Murphy DTM, adapted by Murray Coutts DTM, PDDG). There are three downloadable documents:
- Presenters Overview, in PDF format
- Participants Workbook, in MS Word format
- Accompanying PowerPoint presentation
Vice President - Membership
- Visitors Welcome Brochure
- Onboarding a New Member into a Toastmasters Club
- MS-Word survey forms for new members and members leaving the club
- Additional suggestions on the Membership Growth page
Vice President Public Relations
- Let The World Know – a manual for Public Relations
- Funding to publicise your club and its events – find out how to apply on our District Documents page
- Show us all what you can do: put in an entry for the Kingsley Moody “Best Club PR” award! Here are some of the 2021 entrants to inspire you:
- Lake City Breakfast spearheaded a campaign by all the Rotorua clubs to increase awareness across the city
- Long Bay Toastmasters used social media to double their membership DESPITE COVID
- Pacific Toastmasters showed the difference energy can make (NOTE: This version is abridged)
- Papakura Toastmasters used the power of Google Business and Facebook to great effect
- And this is just a teaser! What can YOU do for your club? Make it a “Social Media Presence” project!
- New Year New You campaign available now: png files (download and use), video files (short videos for promoting your club on Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin), and GoogleSlide files (editable for your club’s details). Instruction for GoogleSlides files: Please download first, then edit.
- Powerpoint slides, editable for club use – Special Event Flier and New Year New You
- Quotes and skills – png files (download and use)
- Photo release form on Toastmasters International website
- Video release form on Toastmasters International website
- News release template on Toastmasters International website
- Additional suggestions on the Membership Growth page
Check out our PR Folder – infographics from Warren, tips and tricks, and more!
Public Relations Promotional Templates >>> NEW <<<
- Starter templates for club and district promotions – ideas for using Canva
Club Treasurer
You’ve read in your Club Leadership Handbook that you’ll need to give some financial reports to your club. You may find this report template useful. Be prepared to answer the occasional question about the make-up of items in the report.
With any report, its a good idea to
- Move the report be received
- Open the contents for discussion
- Move the report be accepted
Secretary
Not sure what’s covered in an Executive meeting? Try this meeting template, which covers the main points. You can change as needed to better reflect your club.
The timing of Executive meeting agendas and minutes is often confusing, particularly as District is supposed to do this a month in advance of their meetings. The agenda always goes out to allow Executive members to add items if they wish – the minutes are just for confirmation. Club practice will vary, but as a guideline:
- A week should be enough for Executive members to read and digest a one-page agenda.
- If the minutes go out too early, they won’t get read – three days before the meeting is likely to be sufficient, and serves as a reminder
- Some Secretaries like a second opinion – sending minutes just to the President for confirmation, and to the Executive later, is no bad idea
Sergeant At Arms
This role is a great starter for those wanting to develop impromptu speaking skills. The role is really what you make it; most organisations who recognise the role describe holders as “resourceful and level-headed”.
Toastmasters can add that, if you choose to use it, you are the only member who has a short speaking role at every meeting.
The Sergeant At Arms has the formal responsibility to welcome guests – whether this is done or delegated depends on the club. If the venue is pre-set and there is not much to put out, the Sergeant could so that – but if there are, for example, tables to put out, then rostering a member as a greeter is a great way to spread the load.
Immediate Past President
The unique thing about this role is that it does not have resources as such – because you are the resource. If looking for an outline of duties, try “to mentor the Executive so that they leave the club in a better state than when they found it.”
One of your primary aims is to help your President avoid the mistakes you made – but let them make their own.
Year end changes to the Executive
Outgoing Officer Duties
There are a number of duties the outgoing executive needs to perform, and these are briefly outlined below.
President
- Plan a transition meeting between outgoing and incoming officers.
- Prepare the annual report.
- Install new club officers at the first meeting in July.
- Ensure the new club officer list is updated on the Toastmasters International website.
- Ensure smooth transition of leadership to their successor.
Vice President Education
- Prepare the club forward speaking programme to the end July.
- Update members’ manuals and progress charts.
- Lodge member achievement awards for recognition with Toastmasters International.
- Pass education programme information to their successor.
Vice President Membership
- Check membership records are up to date.
- Pass membership program information to their successor.
Vice President Public Relations
- Prepare a news release about the newly elected officers.
- Publish transition information in the club newsletter or on the club website.
- Pass public relations program information to their successor.
Secretary/Treasurer
- Update the club profile on the Toastmasters International website.
- Prepare annual financial report for presentation at the Annual Business Meeting.
- Change bank account signatories.
- Pass club records to their successors.
Sergeant at Arms
- Audit club supplies and resources.
- Replenish club supplies.
- Transfer club supplies, keys and information to their successor.
Immediate Past President
- Provide guidance and resources to support current President and executive.
- Act as Nominations committee chair for the following year’s club executive.
- Conduct the elections for the following year’s club executive.
Incoming Officer Duties
All incoming officers take office on 1 July and/or January. There are a number of duties to be performed.
President
- Hold an inaugural club executive meeting.
- Plan club goals for the new year using the Distinguished Club Programme.
- Review duties with each newly elected club officer.
- Schedule executive committee meetings (monthly or bi-monthly).
- Prepare a report for club executive meetings.
- Attend Area Council meetings.
- Conduct General Business at all club meetings.
Vice President Education
- Review the club forward speaking program and prepare new program.
- Promote the educational program to club members.
- Plan club speech contests.
- Prepare a report for club executive meetings.
- Attend Area Council meetings.
Vice President Membership
- Plan the membership building program.
- Review and update the guest pack and resources.
- Prepare a report for club executive meetings.
Vice President Public Relations
- Plan the annual public relations programme.
- Review and update publicity materials.
- Publish a club newsletter and update the club website.
Secretary/Treasurer
- Record and publish minutes of club executive meetings.
- Keep the club constitution and bylaws.
- Develop a club annual budget.
- Prepare a financial report for club executive meetings.
- Check club bank account signatories have been transferred.
Sergeant at Arms
- Assume custody of club property, resources, and keys.
- Assist with preparation of the meeting venue for meetings.
- Assist club members with special requirements for speech assignments.
Conclusion
The knowledge you gain from Leadership Training and serving on your club’s Executive is invaluable in work situations – another example of Toastmasters being “a safe place to make mistakes”.