My request is to have the ability to change the titles used to refer to the club officers - if only as they are listed in the meeting agendas.
If you are familiar with Pat Johnson's book about developing strong corporate Toastmasters programs, you know that she's a strong advocate of these programs using a more formal "business" vocabulary - and not the pseudo-recreational "club" vocabulary that's appropriate for our community clubs. VPE, for example, is meaningless to a company's management, whereas "Education Chair" or "Education Manager" are terms that they can understand. This even extends to the titles we use for our meeting roles - such as Table Topics Master. At present, however, it appears the current titles are hard-coded within the FTH application.
I realize these terms are essentially the "official" Toastmasters designations, and that they are probably embedded in many different parts of the FTH code. However, I also believe that it would greatly benefit our 'corporate' citizens if they had the ability to use the terminology that is more appropriate to their world. Perhaps as a first step this could be added to the meeting agendas, so that when these agendas are sent to a company manager they have a better feel for what's happening?
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