Having a difficult time finding ways to earn your DTM? While there are no shortcuts, here are some tips.
- Put Toastmasters on your to-do list every day, even if it’s just for completing one small item.
- Find a mentor to help understand the DTM requirements and keep you inspired.
- Keep a print or digital record of everything you do toward the DTM.
- Sign up for speeches as often as you can. If your club has many willing speakers, suggest a Speakathon (a meeting where multiple speeches are given, often without a Table Topics® session) to allow for more speeches to be given.
- Join a second club. This allows you to complete more speeches or to be an officer in another club.
- Ask your Toastmasters friends for help. Your Area Director, Division Director, and District leaders can help you find opportunities to be a club mentor, sponsor, or coach. They also can help with ideas on Speechcraft, Youth Leadership, or forming new clubs.
- Ask non-Toastmasters for help. Friends from work, school, chamber of commerce, local library, or charitable organizations may know of places that can benefit from Speechcraft or Youth Leadership. They may also have ideas for where a new club can be formed.
- Remember your DTM project can be done outside the Toastmasters setting. You can do a project to benefit your school, university, religious group, or other volunteer organization. Just be sure to include at least one Toastmaster on your guidance committee.
