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work with a newly chartered club in a team of 2       Club. I’m glad she asked, I joined, and I stuck
to get them started on the right track.               with it. Toastmasters has contributed more to
—Club Sponsors. Help others start a new               my personal and professional development
community, advanced, or corporate club. Once          than I could ever have imagined. I wish I had
they are chartered, you are done!                     discovered Toastmasters much earlier in my life.

    Successfully serving in one of these three            Toastmasters has something to offer everyone,
positions will help you earn your Advanced            and we want more people to be able to experience
Leader Silver award. If you are looking to some       the benefits of Toastmasters. They too deserve to
day earn your Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM),        experience greater self-confidence and personal
you will have to do one of those positions along      growth. My vision is to have a Toastmasters Club
the way. Why not now?                                 in every community in District 7, whether it’s a
—Membership Ambassadors. Do you like to
Network? Be one of my Membership                                      corporate community or a residential
Ambassadors. I will personally train                                    community. Everyone deserves
you how to network and approach                                           the opportunity to benefit from
people. I’ll introduce you to target                                         the Toastmasters program. This
markets that you haven’t even thought                                          is why Your Club Growth is
about. I’ll show you how                                                         important.
                                                                                        One of the best ways
  —to bring new members into your                                                   to stimulate growth is for
  club and others,                                                                  each of us to talk about how
  —to search for the people who can’t                                               Toastmasters has helped us.
  find a club that meets their needs                                                I encourage all of us to tell
  and pass the information along to                                                 our stories: the stories of how
  us as a lead for a new club.                                                      Toastmasters has helped
  —to use this as your High                                                         us become better leaders,
  Performance Leadership project, or                                                better communicators, and
  as part a project in your Competent                                               ultimately better people.
  Leader manual.                                                                    Invite your friends and
  —to enhance your Toastmasters
  experience and lighten the stress on all the        colleagues to attend a meeting with you and
  clubs.                                              tell your story. When you are driving home,
I am looking for many of you all over the district.   on vacation, or just sightseeing, look for
—Speechcraft Ambassadors. What about                  communities that could benefit from having
using your Toastmasters skills to be become a         a Toastmasters club, and let us know about
Speechcraft Ambassador? Would you like to help        them. If we all work together, we can make
other clubs organize a Speechcraft?                   our clubs and our District stronger. We will
Lost Member Reactivator. I’m looking for a            “Be Extraordinary” as we help more people
passionate-about-Toastmasters individual who          benefit from Toastmasters. Through conscious
is excellent on the phone. This person would          networking and awareness, we will find that we
reach out to lapsed members who might rejoin          too have grown in the process.
if we can show them the benefits of membership.

    I was asked to join a Toastmasters club, so that
my friend could have a Presidents Distinguished

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