[MetroMembers] Could you please fill-out an evaluation form...for yourself

[Kevin Wang]

Dear fellow members,


As the fiscal year of 2007 - 2008 has already concluded, I encourage you to
take sometime to reflect on your progress in the past year.  John C. Maxwell
once said the following: "Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated
experience teaches everything".  I believe in this statement wholeheartedly,
and you would benefit a lot from applying this statement to your toastmaster
career.

The idea of a performance review has long been instilled in the corporate
world.  If you work at a company, you would most likely have been through a
performance evaluation process, and the goal is to to understand your areas
of strength and development, so you can learn from the past and set new
goals for yourself to ensure continuous growth in the near future.  The same
idea applies in Toastmasters.  It is important to understand how you did as
a toastmaster in the past year, in order to effectively plan for the current
year.

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself:

- Did I set concrete goals for myself?
- Have I achieved those goals? If not, what were the reasons?
- What are my goals for the current year? Are they realistic based on my
commitments?
- If there were one thing that I need to work on, what would it be?
- How can I help someone else in this club?

In addition to answering these questions yourself, I also encourage you to
work with your mentor to get his/her perspective on your progress in the
past year.

I hope that you found the past year with Metrospeakers to be an enjoyable
and a fruitful one, and I hope that you find the next one to be even more
fulfilling.


Take care,

Kevin Wang
Immediate Past President
Metrospeakers Toastmasters Club - 4371
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