{"id":1148,"date":"2018-05-23T03:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/?page_id=1148"},"modified":"2018-05-23T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T05:25:16","slug":"welcome-to-toastmasters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/members\/welcome-to-toastmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Toastmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-tabs su-tabs-style-default su-tabs-mobile-stack\" data-active=\"1\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-tabs-nav\"><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Welcome!<\/span><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">What To Expect<\/span><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Next Steps<\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-tabs-panes\"><div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"Welcome!\">\n<p>In 2017-2018 Toastmasters reinvigorated its educational program. That included the introduction to the organization, now a handy booklet called &#8220;The Navigator&#8221;. You can go through it on Pathways, or as a PDF here.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TM-The-Navigator.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">The Navigator<br\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"What To Expect\">Once You Join:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TM-The-Navigator.pdf\">The Navigator<\/a>\u00a0to familiarize with how Toastmasters works.<\/li>\n<li>You will have access to Pathways Basecamp, where you can pick the path of skills you want to focus on and start looking through your projects.<\/li>\n<li>You should regularly attend meetings. This will help you get to know the other members and get comfortable with the various meeting roles.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toastmasters.org\/membership\/welcome-new-members\">Toastmasters Welcome (TM.org).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P9h5BP-d4\">You should be assigned a mentor (what then?).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"Next Steps\">\n<ul>\n<li>Look at your Pathway to see what roles and speeches you should do to progress.<\/li>\n<li>If you aren&#8217;t already, familiarize yourself with the meeting roles.<\/li>\n<li>Pick some roles for the upcoming meetings, and prepare!<\/li>\n<li>Choose a date (with the help of your mentor) for your first speech.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":770,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9h5BP-iw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1148\/revisions\/1188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toastmasters.kimspot.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}