Planning and Implementation: Improve your ability to communicate goals and the importance of these goals to a team in a way that motivates them. Serving in such function as General Evaluator, Toastmaster, or Table Topics Master will force you to communicate with others within your charge and help you to learn to do this effectively.

Facilitating: Being a facilitator between any two or more people requires good communication skills. It requires observational and listening skills, asking the right kind of questions at the right time, and keeping your team focused on the objectives at hand. You’ll also need to utilize the critical thinking skills you have been developing while serving in the various functionary roles. Roles such as Toastmaster, GE, and Table Topics Master frequently require facilitation skills – just ask the GE who has had to find multiple functionary replacements at the last minute.

And More: Motivating people, organizing and delegating, mentoring and team building are all skills aided by attending meetings regularly and getting involved.

Finally, your being at a meeting to serve in a functionary role as scheduled contributes to the high quality we are accustomed to at our club meetings and we are counting on your contribution.