Fwd: Calling for nominations: Be a leader of District 41, Manage communication needs of 1 billion people.!!!
Prasad Sovani
I had written a mail as below to all the club Presidents and VPEs and District Officers.
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-- Prasad
Prasad Sovani, Distinguished Toastmaster
District Governor 2013-14,
Toastmasters International District 41
Professional Corporate Trainer & Economist,
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Prasad Sovani,
www.poemstrainer.com
Cell +91-98221-93445
Snail Mail: C-1/7, Shiv Villas Apartments,
Off Senapati Bapat Road,
Behind International Convention Centre,
Pune 411016, India
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From: Prasad Sovani <prasad...@gmail.com>
Date: 7 March 2014 15:26
Subject: Calling for nominations: Be a leader of District 41, Manage communication needs of 1 billion people.!!!
To: nominatio...@gmail.com, DS Venkata Ramana Dittakavi <ditta...@gmail.com>
DISTRICT & CLUB OFFICERS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE WIDE PUBLICITY TO THIS MESSAGE AND CIRCULATE IT AMONGST ALL MEMBERS OF DISTRICT 41
Dear fellow Toastmasters,
Many of us joined Toastmasters with the intention of learning public speaking, later we realized it is also helping us with our communication skills in other areas. We were happy to see our transformation, and hence we wanted to help others achieve that & became mentors. Then we helped form more clubs and in the process we became leaders! And we fulfilled the meaning of our tagline…
Toastmasters, where leaders are made!
What a wonderful organization it is! We achieved our purpose and got much more than what we initially aimed for!
Do you feel you have learnt and benefitted from this lovely organization? Do you want to give back? Do you feel you can learn more by being a leader?
Do you want to learn Team Building, Event Management, People Management, Time Management, Negotiation Skills, Goal-Setting on the job and subsequently & use them in real life—at home, at office, in social circles, in business!
Here is an opportunity to learn all these things while serving as a leader! What’s more is that you will have fun while working in teams! Keen on jumping in?
Our district will be 3 years old and is already joyful that we are giving birth to a new district soon! As informed to you earlier, the Board of Directors of Toastmasters International has approved the reformation of District 41 into two Districts – 41 S or South and 41 N or North (both are defined below). For the transition year 2014-2015, there shall be one District Governor for the combination of 41 S and 41 N, while each unit shall have a separate Lt. Governor of Education & Training and Lt. Governor of Marketing. (The 2 districts will be operational separately from 1st July 2015)
For a large district 41, covering 89% of India(> 1 billion people), we seek leaders who would serve with energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness!
Would you like to be a part of the team that leads the district? Do you want to manage the communication needs of more than a billion human beings? Would you like to grab this chance of being a leader of 1 b people?
If so, here is an opportunity to develop yourself as a leader!
Our District Leader Elections will be coming up soon at the Annual Business Meeting to be held along with District Council Meeting at our Annual District Conference, Oration 2014 in Goa during 16-18 May 2014. We are seeking nominations for the following officer roles for District 41 for the year 2014 - 2015:
* District Governor (1) for the entire District 41
* Lt Governor of Education & Training (2) one for 41 North^ and one
for 41 South*
* Lt Governor of Marketing (2) one for North^ and one for South*
* 7 Division Governors (based on the interim report of the
Realignment Committee)
The geographical demarcation of Divisions for 2014-15 will be as below:
Division A: Half of Gurgaon and East India (Current Division G minus Chattisgarh)
Division B: Delhi, UP, & Uttarakhand
Division C: Half of Gurgaon, rest of Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Chandigarh, J & K & HP
Division D: Mumbai, Thane & Raigad Districts of Maharashtra, & entire states of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, UTs of Dadra Nagar Haveli & Daman Diu
Division E: Pune, Western Maharashtra, Marathwada and Goa
Division F: Half of Hyderabad, rest of Andhra Pradesh (Current state of AP)
Division G: Half of Hyderabad, Chhattisgarh, & Vidarbha
I would like to salute the efforts of Realignment committee chaired by LGM Brillian S K.
Brillian worked tirelessly for this task along with the current 12 Division Governors. All 12 DVGs, LGM Brillian and mentor LGET Ritu had several meetings / concalls and reached this conclusion of having 7 divisions & 40+ areas for the next year. I shall forward you the proposed plan for aligning of each club later on, but for now, we need to know the broader definitions of Divisions.
^ *{{ *41 South: The current Indian states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh & Union Territories of Dadra-Nagar-Haveli & Daman-Diu. (Will later be redefined & include both the new states, if/when the state of AP gets birfurcated into Telangana & Seemandhra, or whatever names they choose)
^41 North: Everything to the north of this (The Indian states of Delhi, J&K, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Meghalaya & Union Territory of Chandigarh) ... 12 of the above states do not have any club as yet. }}
All positions are for the year 2014-2015
and officers elected at the District Council Meeting in May 21014, shall assume responsibility of office on 1st
July 2014.
The eligibility criteria for these district officers are listed in the attached file, ‘Call for Nominations.pdf’ and ‘Candidate Qualifications Checklist.pdf’
Other related information can be viewed at: http://www.toastmasters.org/Members/OfficerResources/DistrictLeaderResources/DistrictLeaderRoles.aspx
Please note that in our district, we elect the District Governor, the Lt Governor for Education & Training, Lt Governor for Marketing and the Division Governors. The District Secretary, Treasurer and PR Officer and Area Governors are not elected. They will be appointed by the incoming District Governor after approval by the District Council at the start of the new term.
If you would like to consider taking on one of the elected roles listed above, please fill in the attached ‘D41 Officer Nomination Form 2014-2015’ , alongwith the ‘Officer Agreement & Release Form’ and send it to the Nominating Committee Chair – DTM Sabari Girish Kanjully at the e-mail ID nominatio...@gmail.com
Self-nomination will be accepted in addition to nomination by someone else on your behalf. In either case, the Officer Agreement & Release Form must be signed by the candidate.
Applicants for Division Governor’s position should mention the name of the division to be served (Divisions A – G, as applicable).
The deadline for receipt of
nominations is Midnight of Thursday 20th March 2014.
The District Governor reserves the right to extend the date if needed.
Post 20th March 2014, the
Nominating Committee shall interview and screen candidates for eligibility and
suitability and prepare the nomination slate. The slate shall be
announced to the district at least 4 weeks before the elections which are
scheduled to be held on 17th May, 2014 in Goa.
The Nomination Committee will be mentored by IPDG DTM Vinay Jain who has graciously agreed to spare some time from his busy schedule for this. Whenever the Nomination Committee seeks some help, he is willing to support and mentor them.
The voting members of the Nominating Committee are:
Nomination Chair: DTM Dr Col Sabari Girish Kanjully
Nomination Committee Members(1 each from the current divisions): Chinnappa Nanaiah, Prashant Pandey, Sameep Taneja, Nikhil Salvi, DTM Chandana Erande, Nitin Sakelli, Parantap Basu, Rajnish Vyakaranam, DTM Farida D’Silva Dias, Nitin Gupta, Parag Karve, Padmakumar Ananthakrishnan
PLEASE NOTE THAT ONCE YOU SIGN OFFICER AGREEMENT RELEASE FORM, YOU FORFEIT A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CURRENT SPEECH CONTEST SEASON! ONCE YOU DECLARE YOUR INTENT TO RUN FOR ONE OF THE ELECTED POSITIONS, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED AS A CONTESTANT, EVEN IF YOU WERE TO WITHDRAW THE SAME LATER ON.
Leadership lessons abound in Toastmasters. Lessons that can help us in all
aspects of our lives! Send in your nomination and take on the challenge
to lead the district. Take on the challenge of managing communication
needs of 1 billion people!
Be the leader you aspire to be! Be the leader District 41 needs!
Mahatma Gandhiji once said, “Service rendered without joy, serves neither the servant, nor the served!” How true this is!
Friends, if you are willing to serve with joy, please jump in!
-Prasad Sovani, DTM
District 41 Governor 2013-14
Warm Wishes
-- Prasad
Prasad Sovani, Distinguished Toastmaster
District Governor 2013-14,
Toastmasters International District 41
Professional Corporate Trainer & Economist,
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Prasad Sovani,
www.poemstrainer.com
Cell +91-98221-93445
Snail Mail: C-1/7, Shiv Villas Apartments,
Off Senapati Bapat Road,
Behind International Convention Centre,
Pune 411016, India
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