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For many Toastmasters Clubs, one of the biggest challenges in running a successful and productive club is maintaining a constant flow of visitors to attend and join you and your fellow Toastmasters as a member. Members come and members go. Life happens! Your Club membership can quickly change from a healthy charter-strength club to one in danger of losing its Charter. <br><br>Veteran Toastmaster of over two decades, Rae Stonehouse DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster), PDG (Past District Governor, District 21) has witnessed the cycle several times with his own club Kelowna Flying Solo Toastmasters. <br><br>Toastmasters are social!<br><br>Toastmasters are known to be quite social, after-all we are striving to hone our communication skills. Then along comes social media and on-line tools that can increase not only our reach but our productivity. <br><br>Social media is here to stay!<br><br>Social media is here to stay, at least until the next &quot;big thing&quot; comes along. Keeping up with what&#39;s new, what&#39;s hot and what&#39;s not could easily turn into a full-time job. And indeed it has for many people as they have created a new career as Social Media Managers.<br><br>The Power of Promotion! On-line Marketing For Toastmasters Club Growth by Rae Stonehouse flattens the learning curve for anyone who wants to maximize their time spent on-line, without turning it into a full-time job. <br><br>Rae believes that Toastmasters clubs should be run like businesses and social media platforms provide promotional and marketing opportunities that can help spread the word about one of the world&#39;s best kept secrets… Toastmasters.<br><br>In this easy-to-read, how-to manual, Rae shares his experience with using social media to draw attention to his Toastmasters club and to convert visitors to social media properties to actually visit his club and to join. Sometimes it has worked … sometimes not!

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In this practical, easy to use book, Rae Stonehouse a.k.a. Mr. Emcee puts the &quot;Master&quot; in Master of Ceremonies. He shares tips & techniques that he has learned over the years in becoming a dynamic Master of Ceremonies.<br><br>By reading this book you will learn:<br>* How to take charge of any event.<br>* How to organize yourself so that everyone will know that you are in charge!<br>* How to think logistically, from several different perspectives. <br>* How to create agendas that work.<br>* Stage management techniques.<br>* How to present awards & give recognition.<br>* How to keep the featured speaker organized. <br>* About different emceeing opportunities.<br>* How to get paid for what you do. <br><br>As in Rae&#39;s other books, he offers a systematic, easy to read approach that provides practical solutions to specific problems. <br><br>In E=Emcee Squared: Tips & Techniques to Becoming a Dynamic Master of Ceremonies, Rae Stonehouse, Nurse & Entrepreneur, shares practical advice that will help you become a Dynamic Master of Ceremonies, that people will want to pay for your services!

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Once upon a time it was safe to go to work. Maybe that was just a fairy tale because the times have certainly changed. Increased violence has become part of our everyday life be it at home or at work. We read about it daily in the newspaper and are bombarded with violent stories from the television and radio.<br><br>PROtect Yourself! provides an integrative, non violent approach to dealing with physical aggression and verbal threat. Its method of information delivery is designed to help you develop greater awareness and vigilance, hone observational and judgment skills and to learn communication techniques to defuse potentially volatile situations. Physical interventions such as restraining techniques and break-away techniques may be mentioned throughout this manual but will not be expanded upon as they are beyond the scope of this manual.<br><br>In a professional nursing career that has spanned four decades, veteran nurse Rae Stonehouse RN shares sage advice for managing violence in healthcare settings. <br><br>PROtect Yourself! is a practical &quot;how to&quot; manual that will enable you to … <br><br>* assess and identify disturbed/aggressive behaviour<br>* provide effective therapeutic interventions for the benefit of your clients<br>* develop winning attitudes to prevent aggressive behaviour<br>* utilize communication &amp; leadership techniques to avoid client escalation and prevent disturbed behavior<br>* recognize the effects of your body language in resolving a crisis<br>* identify the influence that health care staff have on violence by a client<br>* take a proactive approach in developing worksite violence prevention protocols<br>* recognize a bully at work and develop strategies to minimize their damage<br>* recognize and support a colleague that is experiencing the effects of a critical incident

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