Posted by Franz Huber
In his Membership Workshop last week, Charles Thomasson further encouraged you to develop your 'Elevator Speech', suitable to give to potential members of our great club.  For those of you who have not heard that expression: An Elevator Speech is designed to motivate the listener to hear more, to become further engaged.  It must not be longer than the time it would take you to go up from the Ground Floor to, say, Level 10 in a high-rise building, e.g. about 30 seconds. Click here and here for some tuition and examples on how to make it interesting rather than boring.  So, make yourself a list of what you believe makes Surfers Sunrise Rotary worth promoting, then prepare and learn your speech. [Don't worry about being overheard when you are practicing aloud. Your better half already knows you are sometimes talking to yourself... ☺ Ed.] Some more good tips Charles came up with at the recent Membership Workshop on 6th March: Start off with "I'm in Rotary because...". There are so many reasons: Give back to the community, meeting with 'Real People' and have real relationships, not the artificial ones of "buy from me" often seen at other meet-up organizations, mentoring and being mentored, and last but not least: the fellowship, good banter and laughter at our regular meetings!