The Turkey Club Raids project gets going!

How many of you have ever attended another club’s meeting?

Years ago, District 25 offered a challenge to encourage club members to visit other Toastmaster clubs. The rules were simple. Take five of your members to another club, and you could walk out with that club’s banner. The only way for them to retrieve their banner was to send five members to attend the bandits’ meeting.

What if our club were to send five members to another club to deliver a turkey trophy we have created? We would get the raided club to swear to display it at their regular club meetings until they could send five members to unload it onto another club.

Here’s where you come in. I invite you to sign up for possibly all of the following committees. Each one will entail diverse levels of time and effort. For instance, expect the Naming Committee to be rather short-lived compared to the Aviator Design Committee. Whichever your choice, all are essential to the project’s success.

Guidance (Steering) Committee: These are a group of leaders who will help guide my leadership.

Naming Committee: Come up with a name for the game, our turkey, and the awards. Expect to work with the product produced by the Aviator Design Committee and the Awards Committee.

Aviator Design Committee: Dress up the bird to make it distinctively Afterburners.

Rules Committee: We’ll need official rules posted on our website and condensed rules to present to the raided clubs. District 25 will probably examine these as well.

Club Raid Presentation Committee: We’ll need a script to deliver ‘the bird’ to raided clubs and possibly to present to District 25. It needs to drive your audience to accept the challenge of displaying the trophy until they can arrange five members to deliver it to another club. Expect to train groups of five to entertain and challenge the raided clubs. Work with the Rules Committee.

Awards Committee: How can we recognize those clubs who accept and fulfill our challenge? Expect to work with the Naming Committee to select appropriate awards. Your task includes scripting the presentations.

What’s in it for you? Tammy has pointed out that all committee members and leaders can get credited in their Competent Leadership manuals. Leaders and presenters will also have speaking opportunities.

I encourage you to embrace this opportunity to voice your creative suggestions, to craft a one-of-a-kind turkey, and to lead a team of fellow members.

Bob Titiryn