POWERtalk Short Course Train the Trainer classes have been held throughout the POWERtalk International world. The excitement is building with Short Courses being scheduled by POWERtalk Clubs.

If you are interested in becoming a Fellow of ITC send an inquiry to Fellows of ITC Coordinator Carol Preiss email: CPreiss@aol.com. Next sessions will be held at the POWERtalk International Training Weekend in San Francisco, October 2008,

The International President - Mary Marshall is pleased to announce the following Board Members as Official Visitors to Conference. Visitors will present among other things the Training Power Pack for all members and Region Management Training for incoming boards.

However, not only Official Visitors are welcome at conferences. Check out the list below and see if you will be in the area during another region’s conference. They will welcome you with open arms and visiting another region will always be an experience of a lifetime. Email addresses of Region Presidents can be found in the POWERtalk International Website in the Roster.

As we move into the second part of the POWERtalk International year clubs should be thinking about our Target 20/20 Program. Are you close to attaining twenty members, or almost there increasing your membership by twenty per cent? Maybe you need a recruitment drive to bring in those extra members? There are plenty of good ideas for recruiting in the PREM pages of the POWERtalk website www.powertalkinternational.com . Once you meet the Twenty Twenty target complete the Target 20 form to be found in Resource Centre ► PREM ► Target Twenty and send it to President-Elect, Margaret Sutherland (margs@bigpond.net.au or 8 Jutland Street, New Town 7008, Tasmania, Australia) so that you can be recognised for your effort.

Great incentives are there to tempt you. Increase your membership by 100% and you will receive a free International membership at the time of your next member. Sounds difficult but it happened last term. The Board is also introducing a new incentive this term and that is that all clubs, either increasing their membership by 20% or by reaching membership to twenty, the club will go into a draw for a free International membership at the time of the next new member.

President-Elect Margaret is looking forward to receiving many completed Twenty Twenty forms.

As information becomes available you will find it via the Training Weekend website:

If you are interested in presenting a workshop or helping the coordination team then contact the Coordinator Maria Trujillo email: mvtruj@aol.com

At the beginning of January an important message was sent from the Convention 2009 Coordinator Doris Ginther which should have landed in your Inbox via our 360º Communication System.

The message is as follows:

The Royal Caribbean Accounting Department will be processing credit cards soon. It is still possible to book your place for the first International Convention where kids are welcome, on the Serenade of the Seas Convention Cruise on July 18-25, 2009.

Don’t Delay – Book Today. All information can be found via the POWERtalk International Website www.powertalkinternational.com

The POWERtalk Writing Contest is an annual contest. The International Board encourages you to put your writing skills to paper and submit your text to your Region Writing Contest Chairman.

Winners of the Region Writing Contest will go on and be judged at International level. Winners at International level will be announced in July 2008 FtB and recognized at Convention 2009.

After initial problems of finding an editor, the International Board is pleased to inform you that Sue Ballard has agreed to continue the challenge as editor of PREM Power Lines. With many Train the Trainer sessions now in progress and with some regions already running POWERtalk Short Courses there must be many stories to tell on how your club recruited new members.

Do share your successes and even the obstacles you have come across, with Power Lines Editor Sue Ballard email sueballard@aussieisp.net.au. Sue would like your copy by February 14, 2008.

POWERtalk International Training Weekend (formally known as President’s Training Weekend)

October 10-12, 2008, Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, San Francisco

July 18-25, 2009 a 7-day cruise on Serenade of the Seas from Vancouver Canada to Alaska USA.